A New Dawn

"Don ke dushman ki sabse badi galti hai ki woh don ka dushman hai. "

The New- Don (2006)
One of 1970's Amitabh Bachchan classics 'DON' has been been remade by Farhan Akhtar, son of story-writer, poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar. The music album was just released last month and has been amazingly adapted to cater to the new generation. Shahrukh Khan plays the lead role in Don, while Priyanka Chopra is the female lead, and Kareena Kapoor does the Helen jig.

Farhan, the maker of Dil Chahta Hai, and Lakshya has stuck with his favourite trio Shankar-Eshaan-Loy to deliver the goodies. The new ‘Don’ has five songs. Of these five, two are new compositions while three are altered versions of songs from the original movie Don (1978) that starred Amitabh Bachchan in the lead role. The three songs taken from the original movie are Khaike Paan Banaraswala, Main Hoon Don and Yeh Mera Dil. ‘Don’ is slated to hit the theatres during Diwali/ Eid .

Check out the music this week on Taraana!

The original-Don (1978)

Superstar Amitabh Bachchan appeared in a double role in this action film. There was the sexy and glamorous tom-boyish Zeenat Aman and a lovely number 'Yeh mera dil pyaar ka deewana' by Helen.

In the film, there is this 'Don' Amitabh who is a ruthless smuggler. His only soft spot is Zeenat Aman. 'Don' dies in a police confrontation, and as a co-incidence there is his look-alike a country bumpkin, who has come to a city for the first time and breaks into 'Yeh hai bambai nagariya tu dekh babua'.

Cop Iftekhar spots the duplicate Amitabh and sends him as 'Don' to the notorious gang that is now being monitored by Pran. Zeenat comes to know the difference but she has already fallen in love with Don Duplicate. She joins him and Iftekhar in the guerilla warfare against Pran and his accomplices. (reproduced in part from Apunkachoice.com)