Indian filmmakers have long been wrought with the fear that the audience wont understand the plot. So much so that they think that we are downright stupid. That explains why the bad guys spare a few minutes to explain their ploy at the end of the movie, even if they are hanging from a twenty-floor building. And that also explains why even flawed movies are hailed to be the best.
I think DON is an exemplary movie glorifying the idiotic nature of the filmmakers who never let the audience grow. And its also a good example of how all the overdose of drama and fanfare can catapult even an average actor like Bacchhan to the status that he enjoys today.
Now for the flaw...think of the scene just before the title song where this lady is locked up in the room, a bathroom i guess. To make her escape impossible, we are shown that her hands and legs are tied up. But that is not enough, since the audience hasn't been taken for a ride yet. To make things really really difficult for the lady, the door is locked up from inside!!! Now you don't need to watch 200 episodes of CSI to realize that when you lock someone up, it might just be a little difficult to bolt the door from inside ?(the lady is shown un-bolting the door with her mouth during the title song, and she is un-bolting it from the inside!!!!) I love the new Shahrukh starrer DON for all the reasons i hate the earlier one for. One can find flaws in the new one too, but it does make an honest attempt to make the viewer think. And that to me, is a fact that Farhan Akhtar doesn't think of us as lowly dumbasses.
Watch the new one if you can, but after you have seen the 1978 one. The new one is better in every department of movie making, perhaps the 'audience' too.
I think DON is an exemplary movie glorifying the idiotic nature of the filmmakers who never let the audience grow. And its also a good example of how all the overdose of drama and fanfare can catapult even an average actor like Bacchhan to the status that he enjoys today.
Now for the flaw...think of the scene just before the title song where this lady is locked up in the room, a bathroom i guess. To make her escape impossible, we are shown that her hands and legs are tied up. But that is not enough, since the audience hasn't been taken for a ride yet. To make things really really difficult for the lady, the door is locked up from inside!!! Now you don't need to watch 200 episodes of CSI to realize that when you lock someone up, it might just be a little difficult to bolt the door from inside ?(the lady is shown un-bolting the door with her mouth during the title song, and she is un-bolting it from the inside!!!!) I love the new Shahrukh starrer DON for all the reasons i hate the earlier one for. One can find flaws in the new one too, but it does make an honest attempt to make the viewer think. And that to me, is a fact that Farhan Akhtar doesn't think of us as lowly dumbasses.
Watch the new one if you can, but after you have seen the 1978 one. The new one is better in every department of movie making, perhaps the 'audience' too.