Are there plans to get Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan together for the third part of the famous film?
GAYATRI JAYARAMAN Times News Network
Is the greatest coming together of past and present Bollywood in the making? Will Don past and Don present take to the screen together in the biggest face-off of two reigning superstars since Sholay (the original)?
Bollywood is abuzz that Shah Rukh Khan will play Don and Amitabh Bachchan will play his nemesis-turned-mentor in a cameo either in Don — The Chase Begins Again or possibly in a third film called Don vs Don.
But Shah Rukh Khan denies the rumour. "No," he says to the possibility of that coming together, and refuses to comment on whether that is because talks failed or whether the idea is too tough to broach because of the much-rumoured and muchdenied stand-off between him and Amitabh Bachchan.
Director Farhan Akhtar, however, plays as much party to the rumour as the rest of us. "Yes, I've been hearing about this rumour myself, but it is not true," Farhan says, all the while hesitant to comment on whether talks were broached but fell through, or have not yet materialised. Bachchan was not available for comment being tied up with upcoming wedding preparations in the family.
Even as industry waits to see how, if at all, this seemingly impossible coming together happens, the question at the top of everyone's mind is — which Don will walk away winner?
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