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Filmmaker-singer-actor Farhan Akhtar, who is set to direct the next installment of the Don franchise with Ranveer Singh playing the titular role, recently opened up on casting the Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani star in the movie.
“The kind of script that we were writing, what I wanted to do with it… It’s too early to speak about it unfortunately so I can’t into into details but it needed this next generation actor in it,” Farhan said in a chat with Raj Shamani on his YouTube channel.
Explaining why he chose Ranveer as Don, Farhan said, “He is mischievous, just full of energy, which is what this needs and he is… I feel when it comes to this aspect of his performance, it’s still untapped. Like I don’t think he has done a role like this.”
“His characters, because of who he is, they have been written for him, for that reason, are very external. They are loud characters. They are big characters where he has the histrionics and everything. Don requires a very different kind of performance from him. There is a certain holding everything inside that is needed for this character which I don’t think he has done so I feel, for him also, it is a nice challenge to be able to do this. You will see him in a different way,” added the Dil Chahta Hai helmer.
Farhan said Ranveer will do lots of “action, dialogue baazi but the personality is going to be different from what he has played which I find interesting with him.”
When asked why he didn’t cast Shah Rukh Khan for Don 3, Farhan replied, “There were a couple of ideas that we exchanged, wrote some stuff also but somehow… I mean either he was excited by something that I didn’t feel or then I was really excited by something that he felt was not… and that happens.”
After too much of back and forth, SRK and Farhan mutually decided to part ways on Don. “We said we have done two which are really fun and amazing together,” Akhtar said.
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