Don

The film Don is a classic Indian gangster movie featuring an outstanding performance by Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachan. Don is full of fight scenes and car chases from its very beginning, with the escape of Don from a gang of thugs with help from an exploding suitcase. Along with the action, the film weaves together numerous subplots, such as Roma’s vendetta against Don for Ramesh’s death, and the downfall of Jasjit.
Along with Amitabh Bachan as Don and Vijay, Zeenat Aman stars as Roma, the vamp actress Helen as Kamini, Pran as Jasjit, and Iftekhar Khan as Officer D’Silva. The film starts by following the antics of the criminal mastermind Don and his interactions with the law. Later, Don’s murder of his goon Ramesh for attempting to flee Don’s criminal organization incites Ramesh’s fiancée Kamini to seduce Don into a police ambush. However, Don survives the ambush only to later be mortally wounded by the police in another trap. Despite this, Don’s death is kept a secret by Officer D’Silva, the only one who knows Don is dead. In an attempt to capture the criminal mastermind who was above Don, a smuggler named Vardhan, D’Silva recruits a street performer by the name of Vijay to impersonate Don, in exchange for the welfare of the two orphans Vijay takes care of. However, at the same time Roma, the sister of the late Ramesh, waits for news of Don’s existence with the wish to kill the man in revenge for her brother. Along with this, the acrobat and safe cracker Jasjit is released from prison intent on killing Officer D’Silva for his arrest and finding his two children. All of the subplots of Don lead up to an action packed second half of the movie, complete with plot twists, cemetery fight scenes, and car explosions. This film is truly epic and worthy of its cult following. -Aneil Tripathy