DON

From Kaiju Shakedown:

The next big Shah Rukh Khan movie will be DON, a remake of the funkalicious 1978 Amitabh Bachchan movie, DON. If you haven't seen the original DON please do yourself a favor and go out and buy a copy post haste. There's an easy-to-find all-region, English-subtitled DVD and while the middle hour gets a little baggy and saggy (too many tightrope walkers) the opening hour and the finale are all wall-to-wall shag carpets, liquid eyeliner deployed by the gallon, and a gangster so cruel he kills a man because he hates his shoes. And the credits sequence is, quite possibly, the biggest slab of waka-waka 70's joycore this side of DISCO DANCER. So who has the cooler poster? The Shah Rukh Khan DON? Or the Amitabh Bachchan DON?

(And go check out a million other poster designs for the 1978 DON over on the Hot Spot)

Follow up by Twitch:

A week or so back Grady at Kaiju Shakedown posted news about an upcoming Bollywood remake of Don, a 1978 brownsploitation gangster film by Amitabh Bachchan - a film apparently considered a classic by a good many people in the know. Now, the interesting note on this to me isn't so much that the film is being remade but that, according to IndiaFM, this is the first official remake in the histroy of the Bollywood film industry. Not that Bollywood producers haven't cranked out stacks of remakes in the past, but this is the very first time that they have ever actually acknowledged their source and paid proper rights fees to do it legally.

Ain't that a kick in the head...