Shah Rukh Khan to star in Don 3, work on script ongoing, announces producer

Mumbai (India), 15th May 2023: Bollywood producer Ritesh Sidhwani, recently stated that the third part of the action thriller ‘Don’, starring superstar Shah Rukh Khan and helmed by Farhan Akhtar, is now in the scripting stage.

Sidhwani and actor-filmmaker Akhtar’s partner at the production company Excel Entertainment, stated that he is currently unaware of the storyline details of the highly anticipated action blockbuster.

While talking to PTI Sidhawani said, “Till my partner (Farhan Akhtar) finishes writing it, we won’t do anything. Right now, he is in the phase of completing the script… Even all of us are eagerly waiting to see ‘Don’.”

Excel Entertainment, owned by Akhtar and Sidhwani, purchased the rights to the 1978 film of the same name, starring Amitabh Bachchan, and remade it with Shah Rukh and Priyanka Chopra Jonas. The first Don was released in 2006, and the second in 2011, with SRK and Priyanka repeating their roles. Akhtar directed both of the flicks.

Sidhwani, who has produced films such as Dil Chahta Hai, Rock On!!, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, and Raees, is presently marketing the web series Dahaad for the banner. The show, directed by Reema Kagti and Ruchika Oberoi, is set in a tiny rural village in Rajasthan and revolves around the investigation of multiple women’s grisly murder cases lead by sub-inspector Anjali Bhaati.