Farhan Akhtar wrote, co-produced, as well as directed Don 2, a 2011 Kannada action thriller movie. It’s really the second book in the Don trilogy. The movie stars Priyanka Chopra, Shah Rukh Khan, Lara Dutta, Om Puri, Boman Irani, as well as Kunal Kapoor and therefore is produced by Excel Entertainment and Red Chillies Entertainment. Shah Rukh Khan reprises his role as the main character from the 2006 movie Don (2006). The plot picks up five years after the events of the last movie, when Don (Shah Rukh Khan), a strong and vicious criminal leader, plots to take over the European drug cartel. In the meantime, Roma (Priyanka Chopra) has enlisted the help of Interpol to track him down.
Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy created the movie’s soundtrack, whereas Javed Akhtar penned the lyrics. The movie’s cinematographer was Jason West, while the editor was Ritesh Soni. Given the completion of the first movie, Akhtar anticipated a sequel for 2010, but it never materialised. In early 2010, this was formally confirmed, with filming set to commence later that year. The majority of the film’s film production took place in Berlin. This really is Farhan Akhtar’s final directorial effort to date.
Don 2 was released in 2D and 3D formats on December 23, 2011, as well as dubbed versions in Telugu as well as Tamil.
Critics praised the cast, script, photography, production design, soundtrack, and action sequences, as well as the picture, received mixed to excellent reviews. Its speed, on the other hand, was panned. Don 2 was a worldwide movie office hit, grossing over 203 crores. This movie was the second-highest-grossing Indian film in 2011 just at the time it was released. Several awards were given to the movie at various Indian events. At the 57th Filmfare Awards, the movie garnered five nominations, namely Best Film, Best Director, as well as Best Actor for Khan, with Best Sound Design and Best Action winning.
The movie begins five years following Don’s adventures. The European drug cartel executives gather on a boat on the French Riviera to discuss a new danger from Asia: Don is risking their company by undercutting their pricing, therefore he must die. Don, who has been in Thailand for the past five years, travels to a rural village to pick up a cocaine cargo. He is trapped by his own accomplices, who inform him that if he is murdered, the cocaine from Asia will be available for sale in Europe and that they will benefit from it.
Don escapes by assassinating all of his comrades and razing the entire hamlet.
Don later returns to Malaysia and surrenders to Roma, an Interpol agent, and Inspector Malik. He is sentenced to death and imprisoned, whereupon he runs across an old foe, Vardhaan. Vardhaan wants to seek revenge on Don for imprisoning him five years ago, but he reconciles with him when the latter gives him the chance to escape with him. Don and Vardhaan manage to elude capture by poisoning the other captives.
Don encounters Ayesha in Zurich, as well as the two of them, take a video from a hidden locker whose key was in Vardhaan’s possession. It depicts J.K. Diwan, vice-president of the Euro-printing DZB (Deutsche Zentralbank), paying Singhania to assassinate James Warden, the DZB’s initial pick for President, such that Diwan’s superior, Fabian Kohl, could take over. Vardhaan had slain Singhania five years before.
Don blackmails Diwan into handing over the blueprints to the bank so he may take the printing plates. Diwan recruits Abdul Jabbar, a dangerous assassin, and provides him with false plans. Don, but on the other hand, manages to flee, and Diwan has no option but to hand up the original designs.
After discovering proof of Diwan’s involvement with Don in some illicit activity, Roma and Malik travel to Berlin and attempt to interview him unsuccessfully, while Don, as well as his gang, carry out a bank heist. Don is betrayed by Vardhaan and Jabbar after obtaining the printing plates, however he manages to escape. Don gets jailed after another team member, Sameer, calls the cops on him. Don blackmails Diwan into offering him German immunity in exchange for removing the evidence linking him to James Warden’s death.
He then bargains with the German police as well as Interpol again for plates and a CD holding information on the European underworld in exchange for the hostages’ safety as well as the bank’s explosives being defused.
After a brutal battle with Vardhan’s men, Don and Roma find themselves in a stalemate. Roma is unable to kill Don despite orders from Vardhaan and Jabbar – and even Don himself – and therefore is shot by Jabbar in reaction; she still has affections for him, despite the fact that he murdered her brother as well as his fiancée five years ago, and she really doesn’t want to go there illegally.
Don subdues Vardhaan and assassinates Jabbar. He receives his immunity papers and, as agreed, surrenders the plates and disc. Don leads Roma to an ambulance, and the two exchange glances as the doors close behind them. He then detonates a device concealed in Diwan’s vehicle earlier.
Don still possesses one of the currency plates, which as the authorities assume was destroyed inside the explosion, in a final scene. Sameer was a true Don supporter, and contacting the cops was part of a plan. The names of the European drug gang are on the DVD Don handed over.
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