Some UNKNOWN Facts about - DON (BIG B-1978)

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Kyon Bey

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Posted: 9 years ago

Amitabh Bachchan's iconic film 'Don' completed 37 years on 20th April. The film saw its release in the year 1978 when Amitabh Bachchan was at his prime. But no film-goer will believe the story that relates to the inception of the film. The birth of the film was rooted in desperation and acute penury of the film's producer Nariman Irani.

Producer Nariman Irani's previous film was a disaster at the box office and thus had left him in a bad financial mess. It was on the sets of 'Roti Kapda aur Makaan' that director Chandra Barot, Amitabh Bachchan, Zeenat Aman and Pran took a joint decision to bail Nariman Irani out from his financial mess by supporting him for his next film. And thus 'Don' was born.

Salim-Javed were approached by Chandra Barot for a script and he was then handed over a script without any name. Earlier, the script was already rejected by stalwarts like Dev Anand and Prakash Mehra who thought that the script was without any merit and making any film on it would be a losing proposition.

The film was delayed due to monetary issues and it took close to three and half years for the film to see itself as a finished product. The period also saw Zeenat Aman waving off her remuneration for the film. The film was made at an unbelievable budget of just Rs 25 Lakh.

It was during the making of Don that the producer of the film met with an accident after a studio wall collapsed on him. The sad accident resulted in his death in 1977 and he was not present to see the mega success of the film. About the death of Nariman Irani, Amitabh Bachchan mentioned in his blog - 'Was shooting for a film at RajKamal Studios and saw a portion of the set begin to fall on a little kid playing below it. Ran to save the child. He did. But injured himself in the effort. Broke his femur, was hospitalised, went into surgery and came out well. Few days later complications set in and he passed away. Strange, and sudden'.

The film was released in theatres with hardly any promotions and though it was declared a flop initially, the word of mouth grew so much that it ultimately turned out to be a blockbuster. The entire money that the film made was handed over to the widowed wife of the film's producer.

The juggernaut of the film continued even at the Filmfare awards. The film fetched Amitabh Bachchan his first Filmfare award in 1979. It was also a great gesture on Amitabh Bachchan's part to dedicate the trophy to the producer of the film whom he fondly called Baba. Mr Bachchan also requested the widowed wife of the producer to come up on the stage and receive the trophy as a mark of respect.

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TheBoss

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Posted: 9 years ago

Why is he touching his junk in both photos? He is like Don ka pakadna mushkil hi nahi na mumkin hai. 😃

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Kyon Bey

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Posted: 9 years ago

Love this film, Class act by Big B, amazing Background score, dialogues... knowing this whole background of how film was made, initially declared flop & then became huge Blockbuster...

Word of mouth saved that hard work which team put it in this film didn't go waste...👏

"Mujhe jungli billiyaan bahut pasand hai"

Don main character was classy, even in introductory scene, he wished them "Hello Everybody", bad guy but sophisticated...

Legendary Pran's dialogues " D S P Sahib"... Can't get enough of this film... Dhakkad 👍🏼

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Kyon Bey

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Posted: 9 years ago

Originally posted by: TheBoss
Why is he touching his junk in both photos? 😆

Big B ko pata tha teri nazar wahin jayegi, isliye chhupa liya 😆

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ChotaBheem

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Posted: 9 years ago

Abh kuch purane picture dekhna suru kia Amitabh ka

I loved Mili,Saudagar

Saudagar kitna simple village story hai. Loved it

Though Don mujhe thoda outdated lagta hai.Per us time ke hisab se OK

Edited by ChotaBheem - 9 years ago

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Rangaaa

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Posted: 9 years ago

that's a good gesture...liked the film...the chars were fun...script of hit jodi Salim-Javed...those iconic dialogues from Big B...his unique voice,that heavy baritone helped him carry those powerful dialogues...some of them r already mentioned...adding one more...

"Neeche tumhari aunty bahut se uncles ko lekar aayi hai" 😆...

that awesome BG music sequence...

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEFsUt46crg[/YOUTUBE]

Big B and Kishore Da were an awesome combo...

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfZ1N3Rz-G8[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWaWPtFvqUw[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUoZGpqyEe0[/YOUTUBE]

Edited by raj80 - 9 years ago

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fivestars

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Posted: 9 years ago

original don songs were very catchy and makes u dance instantly as well..😆 love the movie ...everything is top notch !

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cory

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Posted: 9 years ago

this era had the best masala movies the 70's, Don, AAA so many. Don is my favourite film of all time, it had the cool Amitabh Bachchan and a cool villain evil guy as well to match him. Om Shivpuri was amazing as well the villain with the coolest hero and the classy Zeenat Aman. Love this scene

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW6siSoR9tg[/YOUTUBE]

Edited by corry - 9 years ago

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Anu

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Posted: 9 years ago

That's really sad...wish the producer had lived to see the glory..good days when people actually helped to bail out others in trouble..that's a nice story of an all time blckbuster😊