Shah Rukh Khan shoots for Bollywood Parks Dubai
DUBAI — Bollywood Parks Dubai — the world’s first Bollywood-inspired theme park — is teaming up with Shah Rukh Khan to shoot a high-speed chase scene for its Don: The Chase, a 3D ride.
“The park is a mix of rides, excitement and adventure, while staying true to the ethos of Bollywood,” Khan said while shooting for the ride. “Films are a reflection of reality where we strongly believe in our hopes, and the same will be translated to the park where you will have fun.”
According to Dubai Parks and Resort — of which Bollywood Parks is a part — the ride will recreate elements of the actual movie witnessed during the chase, giving visitors a chance to be ‘part’ of the movie.
“This time the chase is in Dubai,
The park is a mix of rides, excitement and adventure, while staying true to the ethos of Bollywood,” Shah Rukh Khan
on the very famous Shaikh Zayed Road and other famous landmarks of Dubai. As the famous dialogue of the movie goes – ‘Don ko pakadna mushkil nahin, namumkin hai’ that means it’s not only difficult to catch Don, but impossible, as well,” Khan said of the ride.
Directed by Reema Kagti, one of Bollywood’s finest directors, this ride was completed with the support of over 100 members from the production team. Under the guidance of the Don movie producer, Ritesh Sidhwani and lead actor Khan himself, the team says they worked to ensure that every aspect of the ride should exude the essence of the original movie, beginning as soon as visitors enter the ride’s pre-show area.
Khan added: “A movie star is made by the team, who works behind him or her. You feel completely redundant and useless if you don’t have a good team supporting you. The star of the show carries a lot of his own notion on the set and if it is channeled in the wrong direction, then the whole set or the making goes wrong. But if it is nice, then it permeates to everyone and the hard work required does not seem like ‘hard’ work at all.”
The Mumbai Chowk, host to the Don: The Chase ride, will also recreate the famous Victoria Station built alongside a classic Mumbai suburban railway train offering typical Indian food.