Don (2007 film)

Don
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Directed by	Raghava Lawrence
Written by	Abburi Ravi (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Raghava Lawrence
Story by	Raghava Lawrence
Produced by	M. L. Kumar Chowdary
Starring	Nagarjuna Anushka Shetty Raghava Lawrence Nikita Thukral Kelly Dorji
Cinematography	S. Gopal Reddy
Edited by	Marthand K. Venkatesh
Music by	Raghava Lawrence Chinna
Production company	Sri Keerthi Creations
Release date	20 December 2007 (2007-12-20)
Running time	154 mins
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Don is a 2007 Indian Telugu-language action film written and directed by Raghava Lawrence. It stars Nagarjuna along with Raghava Lawrence, Anushka Shetty, while Nikita Thukral and Kelly Dorji play the main antagonists.^[1][2] Don was produced by M. L. Kumar Chowdary on Sri Keerthi Creations banner. Raghava Lawrence debuted as a music composer with the film.

Don was released on 20 December 2007 and was hit at the box office.^[3][4] The film was later dubbed and released in Hindi as Don No. 1 in 2008 and in Tamil under the same title. The film was remade in Bangladesh as Don Number 1 (2012) and in Odia as Don (2010). The film gained a cult status since its release.

1987: Surya aka Suri escapes from the police after murdering a gangster who killed his parents, and finds a drug dealer assembling little boys for selling drugs. Raghava, one of the boys refuses to sell it for getting nabbed by the police. The drug dealer then starts tormenting him. Surya guns down the drug dealer and Raghava expresses his wish to join him where the rest of the boys become Surya's friends and eventually his henchmen.

2007: Surya is a don with a golden heart and Raghava is his lieutenant and his sworn brother. They rule the underworld of Andhra Pradesh together and help the police to bust down corrupt activities. Stephen is a feared don from Mumbai, who had killed a don from Goa in a duel with each other where the person will lose two of his men for each fall he takes, eventually keeping his wife as a mistress and ruling the state. Stephen wants to add Andhra Pradesh to his underworld business with someone working under him. He sends S. P. Bhushan, one of his henchmen to get information about the local don of this state.

No one in the police department knows who the traitor is and Bhushan is appointed for the case about Stephen by the Inspector General of the police, he goes to every VIP person in the state except Seshu (who is revealed to be an industrialist of a pharmaceutical company and Surya's former business partner) accepts Stephen's proposal. After Surya knows this, he is killed by Surya's henchmen. Bhushan rapes and kills a minister's daughter whom he saw during the proposal with the minister. Surya kills Bhushan at a pub and Raghava along with the public blames the rape victim for killing him as he raped her. Surya reveals everything about Bhushan, reconciles with the I.G., and tells him whether everyone in the department should be verified for not being a corrupt official or a traitor, or even a spy. The I.G. seeks forgiveness and Surya forgives him.

Meanwhile, in Mumbai, Anthony informs about the death of Bhushan and Stephen understands how powerful he is. Stephen then tells Anthony that he wants Surya to arrive in Mumbai, but is forced by Banerji, Surya's older henchman to arrive in Andhra Pradesh. Surya refuses to work with Stephen and warns him that he should never set eyes on the state again after a meeting arranged by Surya in Andhra Pradesh and disclosing each other's biodata.

Enraged, Stephen puts many attempts to kill Surya, but Stephen's men get killed. Rathnam wants to kill Raghava as Raghava killed his son and injures his allies for making everyone addicted to drugs in a college (in the flashback), but Raghava kills Rathnam because the latter had hosted a hideout for Stephen in Hyderabad and tried to do several bomb blasts, attack Raghava and defeat Surya. Surya reveals that he completed it in 1 hr and 30 mins to Stephen (as Stephen gave Surya to save the public in 2 hours). Meanwhile, Surya falls in love with Priya (Anushka). At first, she does not like him but later finds that he is a good person and reciprocated.

Raghava also finds a girl Nandhini falls for her, who accepts his feelings. In the process, he is cornered, and Nandhini is revealed to be Stephen's henchwoman. Enraged Raghava shoots Nadhini in head and kills her and warns Stephen that he would be killed by Suri. Stephen kills raghava. In a final meeting between Surya and Stephen, the latter returns Raghava's corpse. Stephen challenges Surya to a fight on the condition that (a person will lose two of his men for each fall he takes). Enraged and heartbroken by Raghava's death, Surya accepts his challenge. As the combat progresses where Surya loses two of his men, including Surya's approval Anthony. Determined to win, Surya continues the fight and thrashes up Stephen and kills his two henchwomen. The wife of the late don of Goa claps at Surya and says him to kill Stephen as he shattered her life after killing her husband. The fight ends with Stephen getting killed by Surya, avenging Raghava's death and Surya warns Stephen's remaining henchmen, not to be like their boss, and finally, Surya becomes the unopposed don of India.

The music was composed by Raghava Lawrence.^[1][2] The music was released by Aditya Music Company.

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