Don Movie Trailer 1978
Director: Chandra Barot
Writer: Salim-Javed
Producer: Nariman A. Irani
Production Company: Nariman Films
Cinematographer: Nariman A. Irani
Editor: Wamanrao
Art Director: Sudhendu Roy
Costume Designer: Ramola Bachchan, V. Scharwachter
Wardrobe: S. Irani, Manikrao Jagtap, Mani J. Rabadi, Mehboob Shaikh
Stunts: Haji Khan, A. Mansoor
Choreographer: P. L. Raj
Music Director: Kalyanji Anandji
Lyricist: Anjaan, Indeevar
Playback Singers: Asha Bhosle, Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Amitabh Bachchan
Cast
Amitabh Bachchan as Don and Vijay
Zeenat Aman as Roma
Pran as Jasjit (JJ)
Iftekhar as DSP D'Silva
Om Shivpuri as Vardan/Interpol Officer R.K. Malik (Impostor)
Pinchoo Kapoor as Interpol Officer R.K. Malik (Real)
Satyendra Kapoor as Inspector S. Verma
Jagdish Raj as Police Officer
Keshav Rana as Police Officer
Abhimanyu Sharma as Inspector Sharma
Prem Sagar as Police Inspector (inspected the ambulance)
Paidi Jairaj as Dayal, Judo Karate Instructor
Kamal Kapoor as Narang
Arpana Choudhary as Anita
Helen as Kamini
M. B. Shetty as Shakaal
Mac Mohan as Mac
Baby Bilkish as Munni
Alankar Joshi as Deepu
Moolchand as Govinda
H. L. Pardesi as Banarasi, Pan Seller
Sharad Kumar as Ramesh
Gulshan as Doctor
Rajan Haksar as Kishan, Jasjit's Employer
Yusuf Khan as Vikram
Story
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), Ramesh’s fiancee, and Roma, (Zeenat Aman) Ramesh’s 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 gets killed. A shattered, revenge-seeking Roma gets her hair cut short, trains in judo and karate, then enters Don’s 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 D’Silva’s plan to reach the source of all crime—the man Don reported to—through capturing Don alive. D’Silva buries Don’s body, ensuring that people believe that he may still be alive. As luck would have it, D’Silva 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. D’Silva hatches a plan to transform Vijay into Don so he can arrest the rest of the gang.
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 D’Silva 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 Roma’s 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 Vijay’s only witness to his true identity, D’Silva, 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 Don’s right-hand man, Narang, and the rest of his gang. To add to Vijay’s woes, Don’s diary which he had handed over to D’Silva — 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 Roma’s 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.
Did you know?
- At the beginning of the film when Iftekhar, who plays DSP De Silva, saying names of the fictional smugglers, he mentions Harihar Zariwala, which was the real name of late actor Sanjeev Kumar.
- The song "Khaike Paan Banaraswala" was originally written for the Dev Anand movie Banarasi Babu, and was never meant to be in this film. It was shot after filming was complete and was added after the intermission to balance the action-packed pace of the movie.
- In the original script, the character Jasjit, played by Pran, was a perfectly agile. The walking stick was introduced (along with suitable adjustments to the plot) only because Pran had met with an accident off set and could not manage without it.
- Producer 'Nariman Irani' died in a mishap on the sets of this movie.
- The song "Khaike pan banaraswala" was never planned in the movie. It was shot after the movie was complete. It was added after the intermission to balance the pace of the movie which was full of action and chase scenes.
- The producer Nariman Irani was a cameraman who was in deep debt of around Rs 12 lakhs ( a lot of money for that time) after his first film Zindagi Zindagi with Sunil Dutt that flopped miserably. So to get out of this financial mess he was advised by Amitabh Bachchan, Zeenat Aman, Chandra Barot and Manoj Kumar to make another film which subsequently turned out to be Don. Writers Salim-Javed were not able to sell the script for a long time until director Chandra Barot and producer Nariman Irani bought it. It was rejected by Dev Anand, Prakash Mehra and Jeetendra. The script did not even have a name. It was a script pertaining to a character called Don. When Nariman Irani approached Salim, he said, 'Humare paas ek breakfast script padi hai jo koi nahi le raha hai.' And Nariman said 'chalega'. So that is how Don was made.
- Director Chandra Barot got the idea of making Amitabh eat 40 paans from Anandji (of Kalyanji-Anandji fame). He used to eat a lot of paan and so had a red film on his lips. They didn't realize the chunna was not necessary to get the red lips and Amitabh was in pain for days as the chunna burnt his lips.
- While rendering the song 'Khaike Paan Banareswala', Kishore Kumar actually chewed on paan and spat it on a plastic sheet on the floor to get a natural effect.
- Amitabh's look was inspired from a character played by Sanjeev Kumar in his film Naya Din Nayi Raat. Sanjeev plays 9 characters in the film and one of them is the role of a masterji where he eats paan and has oily hair.
- Pran was paid more salary than Amitabh Bachchan, even though Amitabh played the male lead.
- During a car chase scene, Mac Mohan played a prank on Amitabh Bachchan and drove his car so fast that Bachchan got scared. He got his own back later by mixing Mohan's drink with alcohol during one of the songs - he was drunk on set.
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