Don 2 (2007)

Are you itching to know what happens when Munna Bhai and Circuit land in the US? Or what transpires when superhero Krishna gets entangled in a plot by another baddie? You can keep your fingers crossed for the third installments of Lage Raho Munna Bhai, Krrish, Phir Hera Pheri, and Dhoom 2.

Proving cynics wrong and silencing critics, the much-anticipated sequels have set new records this year. The art of making successful sequels is also a trend that Bollywood has never seen before. Riding the wave, filmmakers have announced follow-ups that promise to be more stylish and lavish than the first two.

Get ready to laugh till your sides split in Hera Pheri 3, the Feroz Nadiadwala production to be directed by Anees Bazmee, and be tickled once again in Munna Bhai 3. While Rakesh Roshan has contemplated a sleeker and more adventurous follow-up to Krrish, Aditya Chopra (this time also as the director) promises you more bikes, edge-of-the-seat action and a stylish King Khan as the villain in Dhoom 3. “The most astounding part is that the sequels have surpassed the success of the originals. it’s natural that now we’ll have a series on the same subject,” says trade analyst Komal Nahata. (more…)

That ultimate connoisseur of movies Richard Corliss says in a recent issue of Time magazine that the difference between the US box-office slump of calendar 2005 and last year’s rebound could be attributed to the Pirates of the Caribbean sequel called Dead Man’s Chest.

Pirates’ producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s threequel called At World’s End is to be released in May-June. Others to go the threequel route are Spider-Man 3 to be released in early May, followed by Shrek the Third. And threequels could be followed by fourquels and fivequels!

Production will soon begin on the fourth indiana Jones film. And July will see J K Rowling’s protagonist weaving his magic for the fifth time in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Nine out of the top 10 worldwide box-office hits are franchise movies, with the exception of the overall champ Titanic. Apart from Titanic, the only two movies to gross over $1 billion are the sequel Dead Man’s Chest and the threequel The Return of the King! (more…)

ARE you itching to know what happens when Munna Bhai and Circuit land in the US? Or what transpires when superhero Krishna gets entangled in a plot by another baddie? You can keep your fingers crossed for the third installments of Lage Raho Munna Bhai, Krrish, Phir Hera Pheri, and Dhoom 2.

Proving cynics wrong and silencing critics, the much-anticipated sequels have set new records this year. The art of making successful sequels is also a trend that Bollywood has never seen before. Riding the wave, filmmakers have announced follow-ups that promise to be more stylish and lavish than the first two.

Get ready to laugh till your sides split in Hera Pheri 3, the Feroz Nadiadwala production to be directed by Anees Bazmee, and be tickled once again in Munna Bhai 3. While Rakesh Roshan has contemplated a sleeker and more adventurous follow-up to Krrish, Aditya Chopra (this time also as the director) promises you more bikes, edge-of-the-seat action and a stylish King Khan as the villain in Dhoom 3. (more…)