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Action hero Farhan looks to revive DON franchise

Staff Reporter:

Popular Indian action thriller movie franchise DON starring Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan, is set to return with its third film but not with Shah Rukh Khan as its lead and the title character.
The director Farhan Akhtar and his team at Excel Entertainment are now looking to reboot the Don franchise with a new lead to play Don 3.0, reports Indian entertainment and lifestyle platform Pinkvilla on Tuesday.
The website reports that according to sources close to the development, Shah Rukh Khan has decided to exit the Don franchise. “Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani have had multiple detailed discussions with Shah Rukh Khan on Don 3. Before the pandemic, a couple of ideas were also discussed, which took the shape of a script through the pandemic. Meetings have happened recently too, but Shah Rukh is not too keen to get back as Don again at this point in time.
According to the report, Khan is willing to do commercial films that cater to a universal section of the audience, and Don certainly doesn’t fit the bracket of cinema that he is willing to do for the coming few years. “He has conveyed his decision to the stakeholders at Excel,” revealed a source close to the devel-opment.
To make the franchise bigger, Farhan and the team had also come up with a unique idea of bringing 3 generations of Don together – Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and a gen-next star – to lay down a platform for the generational shift of Don. “But SRK felt the idea of spinning Don’s universe would be gimmicky and hence advised the team about his exit,” the source added.
Farhan meanwhile is working on a new script for Don reboot now. Amitabh Bachchan featured in Don back in 1978. The same was rebooted with Shah Rukh Khan in 2005. And now, come 2024, Farhan is planning to reboot the franchise with a new leading man, Pinkvilla reported.
“The talks are on with a hero who has done two films with Excel in the last decade. He is keen to step into the shoes of Don, but has his reservations too, as the legacy of the franchise and the actors who por-trayed Don before can’t be replicated by anyone. Don will be rebooted once one of the younger actors takes up the challenge,” the source signed off.
Recently, the iconic Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan starrer film ‘Pathaan’ got its official theatri-cal release in Bangladesh on May 12, which is currently storming at the multiplexes in the country. Re-ferred to in the media as the “Baadshah of Bollywood” and “King Khan”, Shah Rukh Khan is currently busy shooting for the much-anticipated Rajkumar Hirani film ‘Dunki’ which is slated for a December 2023 release.

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