Don (new one) 2nd viewing liveblogging

A disclaimer at the beginning (for at least my Viennese BW-gang): Absolutely do not read this until you saw Don yourself. Sac!

I know it is ethically (and legally) not totally clean. Lekin meri bat sunie. A student came to me and gave me the DVD. Before that I was talking to my contact at the only possible Austrian distributor for Don and I was being told that there was no way they would ever get it, since Bollywood action movies won´t work here. Krrish bombed. Badly. So no chance to see it before the DVD is released internationally. But then I heard so much about it already. *whine* And a good friend of a very good friend was the production designer on Don. And most important my spine is made of Jello. The only thing that keeps me from being totally weight down with guilt is that I of course also already ordered the official release.
Enough of this now. Lets get to the point:

00:01:01 Did you know that they they planned to shot the Paris part in Vienna? Our local bureaucracy totally messed up. Thats why Farhan went to Paris. Grrr. Oh and I so need Don´s ringtone. I have the phone. Now I need the ringtone. The "24" CTU-Jack Bauer-one I have is just not cool anymore.
00:03:04 Chunkey Panday .Yay! And yes, I also always liked me..










00:04:24 Yes, right into the face of that french chick. I mean what else to do if somebody says "Püt them üp" I wonder how it would have sounded had they really shot this here. "Poood sem aaap" maybe?
00:05:39 Don ko pakarna mushkil hi nahin namumkin hai *Whee!*











00:06:00 Credits are a bit trashy. I have some students who you might wanna talk to the next time, Farhan.
00:07:00 KL. Did you know that I have a recurring dream of me running through a very hilly (!) Kuala Lumpur trying to catch a glimpse of the Petronas towers before I have to get back on my flight to wherever?
Hehe. A Russian bad boy named Boris. How very cliché.
00:10:00 Autch. But I like the "terrible shoes" face.
00:11:20 And another cliché. Interpolwala Malik enters scene with coffee in his hand. Ok. I dont get the coffee-just checking line. Naa. Still don´t.
00:13:00 Wrong DVD? Matrix? But Priyanka looks great.









00:13:50 Oh aur Kareena bhi.
00:14:45 Hurry up Ramesh..oh c´mon, if you want to quit the gang, why wait until the evening...you just run and that as fast as you can.
00:15:26 Don loves Tom and Jerry?
00:16:28 Oh, see, that´s why you kabhi alvida naa kehna... because if Don says alvida it´s really alvida
00:19:39 Yay! Remix of Koi Kahe Ketha Rahe.
00:22:49 I´m strangly attracted to the paisley shirt. And as hot as Kareena looks that´s just not a sexy dance. And I so do not like the song.










00:28:53 Ok stupid. You know that the gun is empty. Fight him. Even if he´s stronger. You could at least help the police get a shot while he´s busy getting a hold of you.
00:30:10 Now that´s mean. Don really is a bastard.
00:31:16 Enter Roma. And a cold entry it is. Btw. how does she shoot the window if she only uses naqli amunition?
00:32:17 See, Don is evil. Evidence: No Mac, only an ibook look-alike Compaq laptop. Cheap bastard. And he uses a mouse. So uncool. Cool people get a tendosynovitis in their index finger from the over-use of their trackpad. Like me.
00:34.40 "She tried to kill me". Love it.










I love the Munch painting in Don´s vault (can anybody name the other paintings/painters? My last art class was in 1989 and I don´t follow the international art theft scene very advertent) and I love how tidy the drugs are stacked up on the shelves. Another great Don line "Don ke dushman ke sabse khalat ye hai ki woh Don ka dushman hai" (or something like that)
00:38:10 Farhan kept the exploding suitcase pre-credits thing from the old Don and uses it here. Nice. And the chase through the village is very smooth. LOL @ the flying autoriksha.
00:40:50 See Don, that is why one needs to drive a Volvo. Side head airbags. Write it down: Bad boys need to drive european cars. Bas.
00:42:31 The first sign that D´Silva is not your shiny nice police character. That was cold.
00:43:10 Oh stop bitching Anita. Nag nag nag.
00:44:41 Yeah! Vijay! Great visuals and the inclusion of the "real" footage is great.










00:49:10 Sorry very much. Nice.
00:53:00 The "you need to do that for your country" thing is to tearjearky. uncool. one scene where the old Don was waaaay better.
00:54:41 Jasjeet! I like Arjun. I think he has the most sexy voice. And he looks good in black.
00:55:51 Fingerprint recognition. No good. It´s way to easy too crack.
The breathing sound makes me claustrophobic only hearing it. Whose voice is that? Srk? Does not sound like it. Boman? No. Narang? Don´t think so. Well I´ll get the original 2 disc DVD in a few days. And hope for enlightment.
01:00:15 Oh I hate D´Silva. I actually did not like him in the old Don too.
01:03:20 Bruce Lee t-shirt. Bahut accha. Me likes.
01:04:35 Chacha Chaudry kaun hai? I like Vijay. He´s such a chicken. Love that he passes out on the operation table on seeing the scalpel.
01:10:30 That is very thin and totally oberblown. Smoke grenades? For what? A crane to lift the van to another lane...c´mon. How about just stopping the convoy in a Tunnel and the bhag. Ts.
01:13:01 I think Don really likes Anita and I think he tells her now already.
01:15:30 Another hint. See the background and whats playing on the TV?










01:18:00 See drive a German car aur sab teek hai.
00:20:10 Main hoon don. Its been said before but that damn velvet jacket is too cool.










01:27:26 The one thing about the changes I love best is that D´Silva is Vardhan.
01:28:45 And the fight is cool. I´m told that Priyanka did the whole moves on her own.
01:32:00 The Dipu thing works. He never has to say his name and the boy sees him first










01:39:48 "Aaj ki rath" another song I´m not to keen about. But the disco ball is bilkul first class. The whole song is a bit like a school function. The gals are dancing for the visiting principal. And even little Don is allowed to perform some steps.
01:44:41 I like the way Singhania is allowed to gracefully bow out. Cold and very russian mafia for me.
01:46:32 The van over the gully here works better then in the original. That´s a good one. Although the 11 sec I counted are a bit short to enter the van, move the bodies and disappear through the floor.
01:55:13 Yay! ConAir! But in Malaysia the guards are armed. With guns. I love the Vijay speak: Very Badly..
01:58:58 Can´t wait for the making-of to see what parts of the skydiving stunt were greenbox and if SRK really jumped.
02:09:15 And the next big hint. Don does not like paan. And now that we know the truth, it is even ok that this "Kaike Paan" version is not as sweet as the original one. Here it´s just a very very sloshed Don..










02:16:08 Now that´s the Don we all love and the gun in mouth thing is funny even if it´s old.
02:16:55 I need to ask Aradhana if that really is shot at an unused floor of the Petronas Towers. Could be.
02:18:20 Flashback..interesting. But the timing isn´t right. Here Boman needs 16 seconds to leave the van.
02:19:20 Btw. it somehow sounds better when Jasjeet says "do you think i am a fool"
Hmm. And giving Vardhan the phone without turming it off....Risky on Jasjeets side and sloppy on Vardhan´s not to make use of that.
02:24 Phir. The timing isn´t right. Why is Jasjeet faster out of the towers than his haunters?
02:25:22 I think Don doesn´t follow Dipu. My guess is he follows Jasjeet. And doesn´t even recognise Dipu.
02:28:45 D´Silva not dead and being Vardhan. Hah! Don is genuinly surprised and verging towards being veeeery pissed. Now think fast chota Don.
02:31:11 Question, for the sake of my very much needed inner peace: Where is that? Malasia I guess. Lekin kaha? That has to be one of the most fantasic places I have ever seen.
EDIT 12/18/2006: Thanx to meri pyaari Ezri I know now: That´s Langkawi Island










02:35:15 Don´t you think that until this moment Don can not be 100% sure about Vardhan not knowing that Vijay is in fact Don? Love that look on Dons face. And before that I loved the hysterical "Khush?" from Vardhan. Boman can be so scary when he´s playing a borderline character.
02:43:22 Not bad. Technically. And storywise. Major spoiler pic

Did I like it? Yes. Very much. Its slick. Über-Stylish. SRK, Boman, Priyanka. Very cool. It´s smoother then the old Don and thats why it feels a bit colder. But I don´t care. If I want Masala fair I´ll still go and watch AB1.0 doing tha moves. But as an Actionthriller this is the one to watch.
How to I rate it in my Farhan Akhtar list? Position 3. I might reconsider.

P.S: This is the second Hindi movie I could make my husband sit through during the last 6 months. The first one was Lakshya. Go figure.