Don (2006/I)

Director:

Farhan Akhtar

Writers:

Farhan Akhtar (written by)
Javed Akhtar (based on an original screenplay by)

Release Date:

20 October 2006 (Australia)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

Tagline:

The countdown begins...

Plot:

A simple man (Vijay) from the city of mumbai is recruited by a police officer to masquerade as the Don, the leader of an international gang of smugglers. But things go wrong, the officer is killed and now vijay is on his own, with only his lover (Roma) and a lame ex con artist to help him to prove his innocence.

Plot Keywords:

Beautiful Woman | Jealousy | Mexican Standoff | Beach | One Word Title

Awards:

4 nominations

Cast

Shahrukh Khan	...	Don / Vijay
Priyanka Chopra	...	Roma
Arjun Rampal	...	Jasjit Ahuja
Isha Koppikar	...	Anita
Boman Irani	...	DCP De Silva
Om Puri	...	CBI Officer Vishal Malik
Pavan Malhotra	...	Narang (as Pavan Mallhotra)
Rajesh Khattar
Tanay Chheda
Kareena Kapoor	...	Kamini / Sonia
Chunky Pandey	...	T.J
Sushma Reddy	...	Geeta J. Ahuja (as Sushama Reddy)
Diwakar Pundir	...	Ramesh
Sandrine Verrier Seth	...	T.J's moll
Sidhart Jyoti	...	Inspector Verma

Runtime:

USA:171 min | Morocco:168 min

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Malaysia:U | India:UA | UK:12A | USA:Not Rated | Germany:12

Filming Locations:

Champs Elysées, Paris 8, Paris, France

Company:

Excel Entertainment

Trivia:

Composers Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendosa based their music, so they claim, on the scores of 1970s films, particularly Shaft (1971).

Goofs:

Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In one scene as Don goes to the safe to lock his DVD, Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" is seen in the background (implying he was perhaps involved in its theft from Munch Museum in 2004). However, the painting had been recovered by the release of the movie. The Filmakers cleverly used this in the UK promotion of the movie by suggesting the recovered painting was the fake, and the painting in Don's safe was the original.

Quotes:

Don: Don's enemy's biggest mistake is that he's Don's enemy.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Salaam-E-Ishq (2007)

Soundtrack:

Main Hoon Don

If SRK wanted a shot at 007, well he did a great job with DON

I sat spell bound this afternoon in a theater. It was great. In my opinion a 10 for my expectations. For the first time I never wondered where the fast forward button was on the movie. My opinion of the Kareena Kapoor changed completely. You have to see it to believe it. She is sexy! It's a 3 hour film. But it holds ones attention very well. SRK is a great villain as usual. Although they hint several times in the movie what the out come will be, until you reach the end it's not fully disclosed. There's one scene that is similar to a James Bond scene. The only thing is that the bad guy isn't Jaws and he doesn't land on a circus tent. It really is fun to watch on the big screen. Don't miss it. - And for those who have seen the first DON, SRK and Big B are different artists. They do things differently.