Come December, and Farhan Akhtar will be back with the second instalment of action thriller ‘Don’ with Shah Rukh Khan in ‘Don 2: The Chase Continues’. Shah Rukh has always maintained that their intention of doing Don 2 was “to pay tribute to Amitabh ji. There is only one ‘Don’ and he is Amitabh Bachchan.” But the fact is that the original Don personally doesn’t favour the trend. Bachchan had said that neither he nor his son Abhishek favour remakes of classics and that the original should be left as original. Does this rattle him?
“I am a huge fan of Amit uncle.
But to say that classics should not be remade. Perhaps he said it in a different context. It cannot be a stand-alone statement because the same person has done a remake of Sholay,” said Farhan. He continues, “When you look back – the most remade film ever in the history of cinema is Devdas. It has been made eight times. When it was being remade with Dilip Kumar people objected saying that how can one make Devdas with Dilip Kumar and that only K L Saigal can do it. People are fascinated by certain stories and they want to retell the story for today’s audience. What is wrong in that?”
