Don (2007 film)

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Don
Directed by Raghava Lawrence
Produced by M.L. Kumar Chowdary
Written by Raghava Lawrence
Abburi Ravi
Starring Akkineni Nagarjuna
Anushka Shetty
Raghava Lawrence
Music by Raghava Lawrence
Cinematography S. Gopal Reddy
Editing by Marthand K. Venkatesh
Release date(s) December 20, 2007
Language Telugu
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Don (Telugu: డాన్) is a 2007 Telugu film directed by Lawrence. The film stars Akkineni Nagarjuna in the lead role and Anushka Shetty, Raghava Lawrence, Kelly Dorjee, and Nikita in other prominent roles. Lawrence also made his debut music director for the film. The film released on December 20, 2007. The film initially got bad reviews[1][2][3][4] but ended up turning profitable to distributors.[5] This film has also been dubbed into Malayalam on release as 'Bhai' and recently dubbed into Hindi as "Don No. 1" under the Royal Film Company's supervision.

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[edit] Plot

At start, a teen named Suri escapes and finds a drug dealer tormenting some little boys. Suri had a gun and he shoots the drug dealer. All the boys become Suri's helpers and eventually henchman. One boy named Raghava says he wants to join Suri.

The film starts off 20 years later with Suri (Nagarjuna) and Raghava (Raghava Lawrence) and with the establishment of the fact that Suri is the Don with a golden heart. Then of course, he has Raghava as his sidekick, who adores him to death. Together, they rule the underworld of Andhra Pradesh. Since he is the unopposed kingpin, our don even has time for a song and dance on his birthday with his basti people. Everything is peaceful and hunky dory. But only till Stephan (Kelly Dorjee) enters the scene. Stephan is a feared don throughout India and he wants to add Andhra Pradesh to his underworld fiefdom. That’s what sets off the battle of the dons.

Suri begins to upset Stephan, because Suri refuses to work with Stephan. In many attempts to kill Suri, Stephan's men get killed. One man (Kota Srinivas Rao) wants to kill Raghava. Eventually, Don lets Raghava kill the man because the man also hosted a hideout for Stephan's men in Hyderabad. Meanwhile, Don fall is love with Priya (because of the three things he wants in his wife: to be kind, beautiful, and not to be afraid of him), at first she doesn't like him but later she also begins to like him.

Raghava also finds a girl he likes. In that process, Raghava is cornered, where his fiance Nikitha, ends up being on the villains side. Raghava is killed. What happens to Don forms the rest of the crux.

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Song Singer(s) Duration Notes
Su Su Suriyana Shankar Mahadevan 4:25 Picturised on Raghava Lawrence & Nagarjuna Akkineni
Intha Andanga Unnave Harish Raghavendra 4:05 Picturised on Nagarjuna Akkineni & Anushka
Mudde Pettu Harish Raghavendra & Saindhavi 3:58 Picturised on Nagarjuna Akkineni & Anushka
Yedho Undile Suchitra, Vishwa 4:14 Not shown in the film
Neekai Nenu Hariharan & Rita 4:29 Picturised on Nagarjuna Akkineni & Anushka
Dada Puttista Shankar Mahadevan 5:11 Picturised on Raghava Lawrence & Nagarjuna Akkineni

[edit] References

  1. ^ "‘Don’ Review: Wrong Choice Of Nagarjuna". Retrieved on 2008-03-29. 
  2. ^ "DON - Movie Review". Retrieved on 2008-03-29. 
  3. ^ "Dons Don't Impress". Retrieved on 2008-03-29. 
  4. ^ "Movie review- DON". Retrieved on 2008-03-29. 
  5. ^ "Don turns profitable!". Retrieved on 2008-03-29. 

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