Not sure when Don 3 will happen, says producer Ritesh Sidhwani

While Ritesh Sidhwani did not completely deny a possibility of the film, he has said he has no clue when the film will happen.

Fans of Shah Rukh Khan and his work in remake of Amitabh Bachchan’s Don will have to wait a little more before they get to see SRK in the avatar of a don - producer of the franchise Ritesh Sidhwani has said the work is still on the third film of the hit franchise.

Shah Rukh Khan plays the lead role in Don films.

Asked about the film, Ritesh Sidhwani told Mumbai Mirror in an interview, “We are still working on it and don’t know when it will happen. It’s a keenly awaited franchise and we can’t disappoint the fans.” Reports earlier this year claimed on Don has a title, Don: The Final Chapter, and is expected to start shooting later this year.

Shah Rukh Khan stepped into Amitabh’s shoes for a remake of Big B’s 1978 hit, Don, and the box office success of Don: The Chase Begins (2006) prompted the makers to go for a sequel in 2011. While Priyanka Chopra and Kareena Kapoor featured in Don The Chase Begins, Lara Dutta joined Priyanka for the second film.

Earlier, talking about the popularity of sequels, Shah Rukh Khan had said, “Don is the only one which perhaps can have a sequel because we leave it like that every time, but Farhan doesn’t have any story for Don 3 yet.”

Further talking about his plans for films, Ritesh said, “I want to do one kickass underworld action film. The hunt for a script is on. There was Raees, but what I am looking for belongs to a different world.”

Talking about his long collaboration with Farhan Akhtar, Ritesh told the tabloid, “We have similar sensibilities and since we see this partnership as a collaboration, we chat about every aspect of filmmaking. We may not agree on certain things but we haven’t blamed each other for any failures. Sail or sink, filmmaking for us is all about ‘we’ and not ‘I’.”