Don (2007 film)

This article is about the 2007 Telugu film. For other uses, see Don.

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)	20 December 2007
Language	Telugu

Don (Telugu: డాన్) is a 2007 Indian 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 20 December 2007. 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. The intro scene of Nagarjuna was inspired from the intro scene of Mammootty, in the Malayalam movie, Big B (film).

Plot

The story begins when a teen named Suri escapes and finds a drug dealer tormenting some little boys. Suri guns down the drug dealer. One of the boys, Raghava expresses his wish to join him. The rest of the boys too become Suri's helpers and eventually his henchman.

The film continues 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 Feroz (Kelly Dorjee) enters the scene. Feroz 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 Feroz, because Suri refuses to work with Feroz. In many attempts to kill Suri, Feroz'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 Feroz's men in Hyderabad. Meanwhile, Don falls in 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 Nandhini, ends up being on the villains side. Raghava is killed. What happens to Don forms the rest of the crux.

Cast

• Akkineni Nagarjuna as Suri 'Don'
• Raghava Lawrence as Raghava
• Anushka Shetty as Priya
• Nikita Thukral as Nandhini
• Sampath Raj as Anthony
• Kelly Dorji as Stephen(Firoz in Hindi version)
• Chalapathi Rao as Murthy
• Kota Srinivasa Rao as Rathnam
• Nassar as Commissioner
• Jeeva

Crew

• Choreography - Story - Screenplay - Direction : Raghava Lawrence
• Dialogue: Abburi Ravi
• Producer: Aditya Chopra
• Editor: Marthand K. Venkatesh
• Director of Photography: S. Gopal Reddy
• Music : Raghava Lawrence

References

External links

• Don at the Internet Movie Database