Don 2

Story:

Don 2: The King Is Back is a 2011 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film written, co-produced and directed by Farhan Akhtar. It is the second installment in the Don reboot series. Jointly produced by Excel Entertainment and Red Chillies Entertainment, the film stars Shah Rukh Khan as the titular anti-hero, with Priyanka Chopra, Boman Irani, Lara Dutta, Om Puri, Nawwab Shah, Ally Khan, Sahil Shroff and Kunal Kapoor playing supporting roles. A sequel to Don (2006), the film’s story takes place 5 years after the previous film when Don (Khan), a powerful international drug lord, plans to take over the European drug cartel. Meanwhile, Roma (Chopra) has joined Interpol to hunt him down.

PLOT

Five years after the events of Don, the European drug cartel bosses meet to discuss about murdering Don, as he is jeopardizing their business by undercutting their prices. Living in Thailand for the last five years, Don goes to a remote settlement to pick up a shipment of cocaine. He gets cornered by his own associates who reveal that they were offered a deal by the Europeans to have their cocaine from Asia be open for sale in Europe. Don makes his way out by killing all his men and destroying the entire settlement. He returns to Malaysia, where he surrenders to Detective Malik and Roma, who has joined Interpol. He is sentenced to death and sent to prison, where he meets old rival Vardhaan.

Vardhaan tries to exact revenge on Don for having him imprisoned, but agrees to work together with him when Don offers him an opportunity to escape. Don and Vardhaan eventually break out by poisoning the other inmates. In Zurich, Don meets trusted companion Ayesha, and they retrieve a tape from a secret locker whose key was under Vardhaan’s possession. It shows J. K. Diwan, vice-president of the Euro-printing DZB (Deutsche Zentral Bank) bribing Singhania to kill James Werden, the original choice for the bank’s president so that Diwan’s superior, Fabian Kohl, would get the post. Singhania was killed by Vardhaan five years earlier. Don blackmails Diwan into giving him the bank’s blueprints so he can steal the printing plates. Diwan gives him fake blueprints and hires Abdul Jabbar, a deadly assassin.

Don escapes and bribes Jabbar to work for him instead. With no other choice, Diwan gives him the original blueprints. Roma and Malik arrive in Berlin and unsuccessfully interrogate Diwan while Don and his team execute a bank robbery. After stealing the printing plates, Don is betrayed by Vardhaan and Jabbar but, having anticipated this, escapes. Another team member named Sameer, who Don met earlier to discuss his antics, calls the police on Don, who ends up being arrested. However, Don blackmails Diwan into giving him German immunity in exchange for erasing the evidence of him being involved in the murder of James Warden. He negotiates with the Berlin Police and Interpol over surrendering the plates and a disc containing details of the European underworld in exchange for the safety of the hostages and defusing the bombs in the bank.

Don and Roma reach Vardhaan after bloody combat with his thugs and find themselves in a standoff. Though ordered by Vardhaan and Jabbar – and Don himself – Roma is unable to kill Don and is shot by Jabbar in response; she still has feelings for him, though he killed her brother and his fiancée five years earlier, and also does not want to do it illegally. Despite the setback, Don subdues Vardhaan and kills Jabbar. Following Vardhaan’s arrest, Don obtains his immunity papers and surrenders the plates and the disc as agreed, while also getting Roma to an ambulance. Later, Don detonates a bomb planted in Diwan’s car, killing Diwan and seemingly destroying the plates he had taken.

In a final scene, it is revealed that Don still has the real currency plates as the ones there were destroyed in the car explosion were fake. It also turns out that Sameer was actually loyal to Don; informing the police was part of Don’s plan, and that the disc actually contains the names of the European cartel bosses who conspired to murder Don. As a result, Kohl and the European cartel bosses end up being arrested and sent to prison alongside Vardhaan. Having succeeded in taking down Vardhaan and the European bosses, Don becomes king of the European underworld with Sameer and Ayesha by his side.