Farhan Akhtar in Luck By Chance

The movie is written and directed by debutant Vijay Lalwani, and produced by Excel Entertainment (Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar). Karthik Calling Karthik will be exec produced by Miriam Joseph.

The movie will star Farhan Akhtar, Deepika Padukone, Ram Kapoor and Shefali Shah.

Frankly, there is not much to tell about the movie or its storyline. Some reports claim that Karthik Calling Karthik is a pyschological thriller. Others say that the movie is about a broody man who gets “phone calls from himself.”

Farhan Akhtar has described his role in the movie as that of of an average Joe trying to make his way through life. The thriller comes with dash of humor and an interesting romance angle, Akhtar added.

Apparently, to get into the character he plays in Karthik Calling Karthik, that of a lonely brooder, Farhan Akhtar cut himself off from people around him during the filming of the movie.

Method acting and all that. Pity there is no Laurence Olivier around to tell him, “Try acting, son,” the way he said, famously, to Dustin Hoffman.

Photo: Shahrukh Khan in Don - The Chase Begins Again

The movie will go into production in January 2010, and will be released in end-2010 or early 2011.

Don 2 – The Chase Continues will be shot entirely in Berlin and Ireland.

Earlier, Excel Entertainment had deferred the making of Don 2 – The Chase Continues when reports surfaced that the Irani brothers, Nadeem and Nasir, sons of the producers of the original Don (1975) starring Amitabh Bachchan, were going to make a sequel of the classic hit.

Also the cast for Don 2 – The Chase Continues had yet to be frozen. While Boman Irani, Shahrukh Khan, Arjun Rampal, and Ishaa Koppikar were all in, Priyanka Chopra was taken on board only recently.

This was compounded by Shahrukh Khan’s shoulder injury. Shahrukh planned to undergo surgery after the release of Billu Barber. Given the delays, Farhan Akhtar focused on shooting for Kartik Calling Kartik and planned to make a mature love story next, instead of Don 2 – The Chase Continue.

But since there has been no development on the sequel to the original Don with Amitabh Bachchan, Farhan Akhtar has decided to go ahead with the production of Don 2 – The Chase Continues.

Don - The Chase Begins Again poster

Don 2 – The Chase Continues will take off from where Don – The Chase Begins Again, ended. At the end of Don – The Chase Begins Again, it is revealed that Vijay, the police informer, who is planted in Don’s gang to bring it down, is dead, and it is the real gangster Don who is playing the police and Roma (Priyanka Chopra), the woman who wants revenge, alike.

Don – The Chase Begins Again was directed by Farhan Akthar at a budget of Rs 350 crores. The screenplay was written by Farhan Akhtar using the original story, dialogues, and script by Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar.

The music score of Don – The Chase Begins Again was provided by Shankar, Ehsaan, and Loy.

Don 2 – The Chase Continues will be written and directed by Farhan Akhtar, and the music will be provided by Shankar, Ehsaan, and Loy.