Comments on: Don—the Review http://greatbong.net/2006/11/06/don-the-review/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:38:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Don - The Chase Begins « Chutney Soul http://greatbong.net/2006/11/06/don-the-review/#comment-636969 Don - The Chase Begins « Chutney Soul Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:26:27 +0000 http://greatbong.net/2006/11/06/don-the-review/#comment-636969 [...] SRK Pays Just Tribute to Big B’s Don How SRK’s Don is Different from Big B’s Great Bong on Don [...] [...] SRK Pays Just Tribute to Big B’s Don How SRK’s Don is Different from Big B’s Great Bong on Don [...]

]]> By: yourfan2 http://greatbong.net/2006/11/06/don-the-review/#comment-55238 yourfan2 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:48:11 +0000 http://greatbong.net/2006/11/06/don-the-review/#comment-55238 Now its KBC 2: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1061127/asp/frontpage/story_7055994.asp Now its KBC 2:

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1061127/asp/frontpage/story_7055994.asp

]]> By: Ranjan Chakravarty http://greatbong.net/2006/11/06/don-the-review/#comment-54497 Ranjan Chakravarty Sat, 25 Nov 2006 09:25:31 +0000 http://greatbong.net/2006/11/06/don-the-review/#comment-54497 @Yeshaswini YP: Pls read my review-- Arjun Rampal is an identified disaster including his characterization. And duh plot lines have occured repetedly when FA does homage scenes -- Kareena, Khaike Paan Banaraswala and had I forgotten-- Arjun doing a Pran. Which you've identified. Bad, bad, bad, fully agreed. But where does FA score? With a non-boilerplate characterization of Don as a Jason Bourne type. I think that's a first and slickly done to boot. Hence I vote for Don because FA's smart and it shows. @Yeshaswini YP: Pls read my review– Arjun Rampal is an identified disaster including his characterization. And duh plot lines have occured repetedly when FA does homage scenes — Kareena, Khaike Paan Banaraswala and had I forgotten– Arjun doing a Pran. Which you’ve identified. Bad, bad, bad, fully agreed. But where does FA score? With a non-boilerplate characterization of Don as a Jason Bourne type. I think that’s a first and slickly done to boot. Hence I vote for Don because FA’s smart and it shows.

]]> By: Yashashwini Y P http://greatbong.net/2006/11/06/don-the-review/#comment-54473 Yashashwini Y P Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:50:57 +0000 http://greatbong.net/2006/11/06/don-the-review/#comment-54473 FA's direction???? was it that GOOD really? I mean how come people forget the scene where Arjun carries his son on his back while walking on the rope. Except there was no rope and really a vast area where ten people could walk easily without falling down. Why did he carry him??? DUH! Moreover Don was shown emotionally driven carrying grudges with everyone in the gang plus the boss. How does it make him different? How does that make his smart? Silly twists. Except the final one. Yes it was slick. Everything else fell flat. even when not compared to AB's don. IMHO of course. FA’s direction???? was it that GOOD really? I mean how come people forget the scene where Arjun carries his son on his back while walking on the rope. Except there was no rope and really a vast area where ten people could walk easily without falling down. Why did he carry him??? DUH!

Moreover Don was shown emotionally driven carrying grudges with everyone in the gang plus the boss. How does it make him different? How does that make his smart? Silly twists. Except the final one.

Yes it was slick. Everything else fell flat. even when not compared to AB’s don. IMHO of course.

]]> By: Ranjan Chakravarty http://greatbong.net/2006/11/06/don-the-review/#comment-52881 Ranjan Chakravarty Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:05:49 +0000 http://greatbong.net/2006/11/06/don-the-review/#comment-52881 @GB: Just saw "Don" on your reco and am I glad I did. The review is spot on. Fantastic job by FA minus 2 homage songs: "Khaike.." and "Yeh mera dil..." and the huge casting and characterisation disaster of Arjun Rampal. But overall, excellent new millennium style lowbrow but stylish, racy, hard-edged escapism. I loved the spin Farhan and SRK put on the original Salim-Javed potbolier: They've turned Don/Vijay into kind of Jason Bourne gone bad and desi. I really liked it, especially the focus on Don versus Vijay, Boman being Boman, damn good... OK, this is not the original, which was Salim-Javed doing a Zanjeer spinoff: reworking the Bachchan-Pran dynamic in film noir (which worked so well since Bachchan was on top of his game) but in many respects it's better: especially the 21st century style FX, a true Hollywood style mid-air fight, Hong Kong style acrobatic stunts, and a few other well executed hi-jinks, with SEL doing a good approximation of the original background soundtrack. The best commercial Hindi flick I've seen since Munnabhai MBBS. Two thumbs up. @GB: Just saw “Don” on your reco and am I glad I did. The review is spot on. Fantastic job by FA minus 2 homage songs: “Khaike..” and “Yeh mera dil…” and the huge casting and characterisation disaster of Arjun Rampal.
But overall, excellent new millennium style lowbrow but stylish, racy, hard-edged escapism. I loved the spin Farhan and SRK put on the original Salim-Javed potbolier: They’ve turned Don/Vijay into kind of Jason Bourne gone bad and desi. I really liked it, especially the focus on Don versus Vijay, Boman being Boman, damn good… OK, this is not the original, which was Salim-Javed doing a Zanjeer spinoff: reworking the Bachchan-Pran dynamic in film noir (which worked so well since Bachchan was on top of his game) but in many respects it’s better: especially the 21st century style FX, a true Hollywood style mid-air fight, Hong Kong style acrobatic stunts, and a few other well executed hi-jinks, with SEL doing a good approximation of the original background soundtrack. The best commercial Hindi flick I’ve seen since Munnabhai MBBS. Two thumbs up.

]]> By: Sanjay Goel http://greatbong.net/2006/11/06/don-the-review/#comment-52236 Sanjay Goel Sat, 18 Nov 2006 13:34:09 +0000 http://greatbong.net/2006/11/06/don-the-review/#comment-52236 Bong, Very unusual review from your side. This is almost perfect material to get good thrashing from you, but maybe the low expectations did the trick ;-) Another pretty unusual stuff happened in my rss reader. Your feed mysteriously disappeared. Its gonna take some time before I catch up with all your articles. Bong,
Very unusual review from your side. This is almost perfect material to get good thrashing from you, but maybe the low expectations did the trick ;-)
Another pretty unusual stuff happened in my rss reader. Your feed mysteriously disappeared. Its gonna take some time before I catch up with all your articles.

]]> By: mukesh http://greatbong.net/2006/11/06/don-the-review/#comment-51959 mukesh Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:58:03 +0000 http://greatbong.net/2006/11/06/don-the-review/#comment-51959 U R right Srinivas. This is new century. Make something, this generation can accept. Direction of movie is totally unacceptable. Worst look and acting of Shahrukh in his career. Make your own image than coping others Shahrukh. And specially not Amitji. KAhan RAja Bhoj,Kahan Gango Teli! Well,I don't want to say too much about it. Smart people will understand. Thanks for reading it. U R right Srinivas.
This is new century. Make something, this generation can accept. Direction of movie is totally unacceptable.
Worst look and acting of Shahrukh in his career.
Make your own image than coping others Shahrukh. And specially not Amitji. KAhan RAja Bhoj,Kahan Gango Teli!
Well,I don’t want to say too much about it. Smart people will understand.

Thanks for reading it.

]]> By: Srinivas http://greatbong.net/2006/11/06/don-the-review/#comment-49976 Srinivas Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:10:42 +0000 http://greatbong.net/2006/11/06/don-the-review/#comment-49976 Oh Please! SRK doesn't forge himself as DON and is rather disappointing. If not for the clever twist at the end this movie would a mega-flop. Farhan's style of slowing the movie down to a lethargic pace in the middle doesn't help the movie one bit and neither does the script with full of faulty holes which could have been plugged easily.. Kareena as Helen "shook" me out of my blissful sleep in "Yeh mere dil pyar ka deewana" but as she walks away with DON holding an empty gun without a sign of struggle (Helen atleast tried) quickly put me back to sleep. So.. Purane DON ko replace karna mushkil he nahin, na mumkin hain. Oh Please! SRK doesn’t forge himself as DON and is rather disappointing. If not for the clever twist at the end this movie would a mega-flop. Farhan’s style of slowing the movie down to a lethargic pace in the middle doesn’t help the movie one bit and neither does the script with full of faulty holes which could have been plugged easily..

Kareena as Helen “shook” me out of my blissful sleep in “Yeh mere dil pyar ka deewana” but as she walks away with DON holding an empty gun without a sign of struggle (Helen atleast tried) quickly put me back to sleep.

So.. Purane DON ko replace karna mushkil he nahin, na mumkin hain.

]]> By: Kaushik http://greatbong.net/2006/11/06/don-the-review/#comment-48771 Kaushik Sun, 12 Nov 2006 06:08:20 +0000 http://greatbong.net/2006/11/06/don-the-review/#comment-48771 I had the same feeling after seeing the movie. It nowhere compares with DON-Original, but is a good repackage. I had the same feeling after seeing the movie. It nowhere compares with DON-Original, but is a good repackage.

]]> By: greatbong http://greatbong.net/2006/11/06/don-the-review/#comment-47480 greatbong Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:22:53 +0000 http://greatbong.net/2006/11/06/don-the-review/#comment-47480 @Shan: I would say that it is you who are being thin-skinned here by saying “If you do not want me to comment, I will not come.” Firstly if I did not want you to comment, I would just ban your IP and that would be the end of that. Of course that is not the case. Now an yardstick eg production values is very different from a genre. Sakaprosakha belongs to a different genre than say Night of the Living Dead and this classification into genres is *not something I do out of my convenience and my whims*. Ergo when I go to see “Don” I will be comparing it with movies of similar themes—say Suraksha and MI and Bond (and not RDB) Within that frame of reference, I found it to be quite good and this is an assertion I have tried to logically establish. You could have said: “Don is crap”. Which is fine–your opinion. You could have said “Your line of reasoning is faulty” and said why you think so. That is fine too. But what you say is that ” GB does not really like this movie but he is pretending to do so such that a few of his readers are mollified”. In essence, you are accusing me of a kind of intellectual dishonesty which I find objectionable, simply because you have no proof or a line of reasoning deduced from a past pattern. And I think I have a right to point that out without being termed “thin-skinned”. As a regular visitor to the blog and having been witness to some of the comment attacks I have endured, I would have thought that “thin-skinned” would not be the adjective that comes to your mind about me @Shan: I would say that it is you who are being thin-skinned here by saying “If you do not want me to comment, I will not come.” Firstly if I did not want you to comment, I would just ban your IP and that would be the end of that. Of course that is not the case.

Now an yardstick eg production values is very different from a genre. Sakaprosakha belongs to a different genre than say Night of the Living Dead and this classification into genres is *not something I do out of my convenience and my whims*. Ergo when I go to see “Don” I will be comparing it with movies of similar themes—say Suraksha and MI and Bond (and not RDB) Within that frame of reference, I found it to be quite good and this is an assertion I have tried to logically establish.

You could have said: “Don is crap”. Which is fine–your opinion. You could have said “Your line of reasoning is faulty” and said why you think so. That is fine too. But what you say is that ” GB does not really like this movie but he is pretending to do so such that a few of his readers are mollified”. In essence, you are accusing me of a kind of intellectual dishonesty which I find objectionable, simply because you have no proof or a line of reasoning deduced from a past pattern. And I think I have a right to point that out without being termed “thin-skinned”.

As a regular visitor to the blog and having been witness to some of the comment attacks I have endured, I would have thought that “thin-skinned” would not be the adjective that comes to your mind about me

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