Don (Hindi)

Story:

Don is a 1978 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Chandra Barot from a story written by Salim–Javed and produced by Nariman Irani. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan in dual role, alongside Zeenat Aman, Pran, Iftekhar, Om Shivpuri and Satyen Kappu in supporting roles. The music was composed by Kalyanji–Anandji with lyrics written by Anjaan and Indeevar.

PLOT

Don is a notorious crime boss in Mumbai who always eludes the authorities despite being wanted in eleven countries. DSP D’Silva, Inspector Verma and Interpol officer R. K. Malik have spent the last few years in capturing Don, but to no avail. During a chase with the police, Don is severely wounded after an accident and dies in front of D’Silva, who holds a burial of Don without anyone’s knowledge. D’Silva keeps Don’s death as a secret even from his fellow officers, and tracks down a look-alike called Vijay, a street performer. D’Silva asks Vijay to infiltrate Don’s gang by pretending to be Don. In return, D’Silva will make sure that the children Vijay adopted, Deepu and Munni, gets a proper education.

D’Silva trains Vijay and sends him back to Don’s gang, disguised as an amnesiac Don, who had been hiding at an apartment complex due to his injuries. Slowly, Vijay starts to learn about Don’s gang. Vijay provides a diary with the secret information of the crime network to D’Silva, but he is about to be killed by Roma because her brother Ramesh as well as his fiancée Kamini were killed by Don earlier. At this juncture, D’Silva arrives and tells her that he is Vijay and not Don. Later before a party, Don secretly provides information to D’Silva about a meeting of Don’s network. A shootout occurs at the party and D’Silva is killed in a crossfire. Vijay finds D’Silva dead and is taken into the custody of the police team, now headed by Malik.

Vijay argues to Malik that he is not Don and mentions a piece of evidence – the diary, which may prove his innocence, but the diary is nowhere to be found. Unable to prove his innocence, Vijay escapes from a police van and joins Roma, where he learns that the diary is stolen by a person named Jasjit in order to track down his children Deepu and Munni. Jasjit meets Vijay and Roma and joins them. However, the trio learns that Malik is actually Vardhaan who captured the real Malik and posed as the latter to cover his crime and that Vardhaan was the one who had murdered D’Silva during the party and had already exposed Roma’s identity to the gang members before having them kidnap Deepu and Munni so that the trio can surrender themselves and the diary to Vardhaan.

After being captured by Vardhaan, Jasjit is reunited with Deepu and Munni and manages to escape the hideout with them, thanking Vijay for taking care of his children. Meeting up in the same graveyard where Don was buried, Vardhaan and his gang members who are holding Deepu and Munni hostages, have a long standoff with Vijay, Roma and Jasjit, resulting in Vardhaan grabbing the diary from Roma and throwing it in a fire. Eventually, Vardhaan calls Inspector Verma and the police to the scene to have the trio and the gang members arrested so that he can get away scot-free. However, anticipating the possibility that Vardhaan would try to escape, Vijay cleverly reveals that the diary that he had thrown in the fire was actually a blank one that he had switched just as he hands over the real diary to Verma, exposing Vardhaan’s identity to the police. Vardhaan and the gang members are arrested, while Vijay, Roma, Jasjit, Deepu and Munni happily leave the police station.