Don 2, the eagerly awaited sequel of the hit film Don, which was released in 2006, is all-set to offer the audience an experience of lifetime. The action packed film is ought to give the adrenaline rush to viewers with agility, action, destruction and cars. Of the various action scenes filmed at live locations, a death defying car chase in the Shahrukh Khan-Priyanka Chopra starrer Don 2 deserves special mention.
This furious scene has taken into account 67 cars for which busy streets in Berlin were cordoned-off for around three weeks. The sequence was filmed in important locations and the cars were shipped from Korea.
The Brandenburgh Gate, where the United States and Russian Consulates are located, was shutdown to shoot the climax of the electrifying car chase. As a matter of fact, the permission was exclusively granted for Don 2, while a host of Hollywood films were denied for the same in the past.
As a daily routine, substitute routes and diversions were provided as there was no access to regular ways that were used for the shoot The Berlin government offered full cooperation to the entire film crew and adapted to the whole shoot schedule. It must be noted that the scene is considered to be amongst the best action sequences that have been a part of Bollywood films ever.
Shahrukh Khan quoted an incident during the shoot of Don 2. “The second one was the car driving, in Germany (a year ago) on the Autobahn with four or five cars chasing you all the time, and there are a lot of cameras around you. I do the car stunts myself, most of them, and we had a bang-up once. The cameras got destroyed and it was quite scary,” he said.
Thus, of late, Bollywood films have banked upon these mean machines in order to pull maximum masses to the box office.
