Shah Rukh Khan waxes eloquent when asked about what he thinks about his old film ‘Don’ when juxtaposed against ‘Happy New Year’.
?’Don’ is very stylised, extremely stylised and has more linear a thought process? it is led by one guy and you just enjoy his sensuality, his naughtiness or his meanness. I think ‘Don’ became less mean in the second one?he should have been meaner? but you start enjoying that he’s strangely warped in an attractive way. In ‘Happy New Year’, I think six people are strangely sweet in a very attractive way. It is not as stylised or as dependent on what one character is. So it’s very different from ‘Don’.
?It doesn’t get into that serious a zone that Interpol is after ‘Don’ and the world wants to kill him, because he’s shot people, is doing drugs and freaking out with women. In ‘Happy New Year’, it’s a more innocent world. Their world is innocent, because the six people in it are innocent. Maybe except for me (Charlie) who is leading them all, but who’s also got a purpose.
?And I think there is also the simplicity to the characters that people can think that ?arrey, yeh to apne jaise hi log hain.’ It’s not as dark and sensual as Don. Happy New Year is a Farah (Khan) film, so it’s extremely colourful and happy.?