Don (डॉन) 1978

Published on December 12, 2011 in Cinema

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Banner	Nariman Films
Director	Chandra Barot
Writer	Salim-Javed
Producer	Nariman A. Irani, Nariman Films
Orginal music	Kalyanji Anandji
Cinematography	Nariman A. Irani
Film Editing	Wamanrao
Art Director	Sudhendu Roy
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Assistant Cameramen
Playback Singers	Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Amitabh Bachchan, Asha Bhosle

Character	Actor/actress
Don / Vijay	Amitabh Bachchan
Roma	Zeenat Aman
Jasjit (J.J.)	Pran
DSP D'Silva (as Iftikhar)	Iftekhar
Vardan - Fake Interpol Officer R.K. Malik	Om Shivpuri
Inspector S. Verma (as Satyen Kapoo)	Satyendra Kapoor
Dayal (Judo Karate Instructor)	P. Jairaj
Narang	Kamal Kapoor
Anita (as Arpana Choudhry)	Arpana Choudhary
Kamini	Helen
Shakaal (as Shetty)	M.B. Shetty
Mac	Mac Mohan
Azad	Azad
(as Devraj)	Yashraj
Police Office (actor)	Devaraj
Interpol Officer R.K. Malik	Jagdish Raj
Police Officer (actor)	Amar
	Pinchoo Kapoor
(as Devraj)	Keshav Rana
Police Office (actor)	Maruti
	Ranvir Raj
Interpol Officer R.K. Malik	Shakeel
Police Officer (actor)	Leena
	Baby Bilkish
(as Ranveer Raj)	Alankar Joshi
	M.A. Latif
	S.U. Khan
Muni	Moolchand
Deepu (as Master Alankar)	Abhimanyu Sharma
	Mama
	Shah Agha
Govinda	H.L. Pardesi
Inspector Sharma	Bihari
	Soul
	Ramesh Shrimali
Banarasi Pan Seller (as Pardesi)	Vinay Randhawa
	Gurjinder Virk
	Kalwa
	Mohiuddin
(as P.K. Chandar)	P.K. Chander
Ramesh	Sharad Kumar
Doctor (uncredited)	Gulshan
Kishan (J.J.'s Employer) (uncredited)	Rajan Haksar
Vikram (uncredited)	Yusuf Khan
Police Inspector (inspected the ambulance) (uncredited)	Prem Sagar

Don begins, true to its title, as the story of one of the most powerful men in the business of crime, who in spite of being one of the most wanted on the list of Interpol, remains elusive to the police. Along with the police, Don makes a few other enemies through his merciless approach to running his organization, especially when he kills one of his own men, Ramesh, when Ramesh decides to leave the business. This introduces Don to two new enemies, Kamini (Helen), Rameshs fiancee, and Roma, (Zeenat Aman) Rameshs sister. When Kamini seduces Don and attempts to have the police arrest him, her plan backfires as Don outsmarts her and the police in his escape, and in the process Kamini loses her life.

A shattered, revenge-seeking Roma gets her hair cut short, trains in judo and karate, then enters Dons gang after deceiving them into thinking that she too is on the wrong side of the law. Don is impressed with her fighting skills and allows her to work for him, without realizing her true intentions. Meanwhile, after a couple of unsuccessful attempts at nabbing Don, the police finally succeed, but Don dies during the pursuit, botching Officer DSilvas plan to reach the source of all crimethe man Don reported tothrough capturing Don alive. DSilva buries Dons body, ensuring that people believe that he may still be alive. As luck would have it, DSilva remembers his chance encounter with Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan), a simpleton trying to survive in the hustle and bustle of Bombay in order to support two small foster children, who is an exact lookalike of Don. DSilva hatches a plan to transform Vijay into Don and place him back into the crime nexus, but this time as a police informer.

Around the time Vijay "returns" to Don's gang as Don under the guise of amnesia, Jasjit (Pran), just released from jail, begins his mission of revenge against DSilva and his search for his children Deepu and Muni, who had been saved and taken care of by Vijay. Vijay manages to replace the red diary with a blank one, and tells his gang that he is going to take revenge on the DSP, but is actually going there to give him the red diary. Roma goes after him, but Vijay survives the attack and he tries to explain to her that he is not Don, but Vijay. She refuses to believe him at first but D'Silva intervenes and tells her that the man she is trying to kill is indeed Vijay.

Meanwhile, as Vijay learns more and more about Don through his discovery of his diary and Romas help, he announces to his colleagues that his memory is back. Celebrations ensue, as Don announces his return to the world, but things take a drastic turn when the police raid the celebrations, acting upon Vijay's information, but Vijays only witness to his true identity, DSilva, dies in the crossfire.

Tangled in a web of confusion where the police refuse to believe that he is Vijay, whereas his underworld gang realizes that he is indeed not Don, Vijay becomes not only hated by the police, but also by Dons right-hand man, Narang, and the rest of his gang. To add to Vijays woes, Dons diary which he had handed over to DSilva his last hope of proving his innocence is stolen by Jasjit in an attempt to track down his lost children, without realizing that Vijay is the one man who can reunite them. Vijay escapes the clutches of the police and the underworld with Romas help and returns to his old self though he struggles to prove his identity and innocence. After a long fight of Vijay against Vardan's men Roma ends up getting the diary and one of the gangster's snatch it and burn it. The ending reveals that the diary which was burnt was, in fact, the fake diary and Vijay had the real one in order to trick Vardan, he gives the proof to the police and all charges are put against him, Vardan is arrested and Vijay returns to his old life.

Release Date	27-Oct-78
Budget	85,00,000 Lakhs
Revenue	7,0,000,00 Crores

Amitabh Bachchan won Filmfare Award for Best Actor, for this movie.
Asha Bhosle won Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer for the song "Yeh Mera Dil".
Kishore Kumar won Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer for the song "Khaike Paan Banaraswala".

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