"Don two" will focus on mafia ring in Germany and Britain: SRK

Bollywood heart-throb Shah Rukh Khan has disclosed plans for making a sequel to film "Don", in which he played the lead role, and he will take on the mafia in the European heartland in the new plot.

As compared to "Don", which deals with rivalry of crime syndicates based in Malaysia, the storyline of "Don two" will focus on mafia ring in Germany and Britain, Shah Rukh Khan said at the premiere of his latest blockbuster "Om Shanti Om" at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival last night.

Shooting for the new "Don" is scheduled to begin in Germany in few months to be followed by the film crew moving to Britain, Shah Rukh Khan said.

According to "King Khan" of Bollywood, the opportunities are great for Indian co-productions with German companies and some preliminary discussions on possible alliances between the two sides in this connection were held on the sidelines of the Berlinale.

Last year's Berlin Film festival provided the ground for signing the first Indo-German Agreement on Audio-Visual Co-production, which provides a legal framework for cooperation between the producers in India and Germany.

Under the agreement, each country is committed to treat co-productions as national films and thereby producers from each will be entitled to benefit from all state support for the film and video industries of the other.

There is a growing interest among the German industry to benefit from the rapidly evolving audio-visual market in India and to cooperate with the Indian film fraternity which is not only the biggest in the world, but also the fastest growing.

On the other hand, Indian productions have a fair chance to benefit from Germany's annual film financing programme, which is estimated to be more than Euro 150 million.

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