Don- A movie par excellence

Don't get befuddled by the title of this post: Before anything else, one should know that the new Don has been named as "Don- the (bloody) chase begins again". So, it is very obvious that i am referring to the old classic Big B's Don here! Farhan Akhtar's Don-the chase.... is abysmally worse and doesn't even ask for a comparision with the old one! But then, i guess, to be fair to King Khan, one should not compare him with the legend. While ShahRukh Khan is a pastmaster at pulling off great romantic scenes he isn't quite the best in either comic roles or in don-type roles. Look at the second half of the movie- he doesn't look 1% the part of a ganga-kinare "chora", what with his still-polished appearance and forced accent(tries real hard to get the desi-accent right, but comes a cropper big time!)
When Amitabh said those stuning one-liners they were etched in dialogue books, when Shahrukh Khan says the same thing, it is relinquished to the recycle bin! I would hate to be harsh on ShahRukh ,particularly because he is my favorite contemporary actor, but then, try as you might not to compare the two movies, it is just inevitable, and you cannot help realizing and appreciating the sheer billiance of the great actor (Amitabh).
Actually Shah Rukh Khan was woefully undone by a pathetic second half amateurish script drafted by Farhan- he got too innovative, too inventive, too creative and in the end, the cocktail resulted in an unwanted hotchpotch of inexperienced and unrelated scenes. When Don was resurrected (literally), the movie lost basically everything....
I was really disaapointed with the movie as a whole....However,for a person who has never seen the old Don, and for the others if they can manage to undo the old don scenes firmly screened in their mind, i guess the new Don would be very watchable. After all, Shah Rukh Khan comes everywhere with his own package of charm....