{"id":2552,"date":"2016-07-21T23:15:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T17:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=2552"},"modified":"2016-07-21T23:15:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T17:45:02","slug":"don-50-years-amitabh-bachchan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=2552","title":{"rendered":"50 Years of Amitabh Bachchan: Why Don Remains Big B&#8217;s Slickest Film"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span><\/p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">first remember watching <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as a four-year-old at Defence Cinema in Navy Nagar circa 1978. It was not a blast \u2013 it was an electric, emotional experience. The image of a poor circus artist, portrayed by Pran, escaping the bad guys on a vertiginous tightrope between skyscrapers, holding on to his two kids, is etched in the blue screen of my memory. Much the same way, the process of creating <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/30-years-of-shahenshah-amitabh-bachchan-vigilante\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amitabh\u2019s <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">best film as a \u201970s superstar was a precarious gamble for the film\u2019s stakeholders. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For starters, the film\u2019s producer, the National Award-winning cinematographer Nariman Irani, was in deep debt \u2013 \u20b912 lakh to be precise \u2013 thanks to a 1971 turkey, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zindagi Zindagi, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">starring Sunil Dutt and Waheeda Rahman. He was barely making ends meet as a cameraman, and that was not helping him get out of hock. It was the troika of Amitabh Bachchan, Zeenat Aman, and director Chandra Barot who cajoled \u201cBawa\u201d, as he was affectionately called, to take on one last gamble: A super-stylish flick that would set the cash registers ringing. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Irani took on the gamble. At this point, I wish I could tell you that this tale had a happy, uplifting takeaway. But fate is a cruel mistress: Bawa met with a fatal accident during the making of Manoj Kumar\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kranti <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">six months before <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s release. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With that terrible precedent, what hopes could one have from the film? According to legend, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was a flop on its release in May 1978. And to salvage it, its co-producers decided to slide in \u201cKhaike Paan Banaras Wala\u201d at the last minute. The song, composed by Laxmichand Shah or Babla, the 74-year-old who pioneered the genre of \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/disco-dancer-movies-bollywood-mithun-chakraborty\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">disco<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> dandiya\u201d, became an instant chartbuster, thus paving the path for the film\u2019s iconic status. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But this story about the song that allegedly brought <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">back from the box-office dead is just that \u2013 a story. I spoke to Shah recently, who told me that he has no idea how this theory started doing the rounds. \u201cSome claim that \u2018Khaike Paan Banaras Wala\u2019 was originally recorded for the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/dev-anand-bollywood-jewel-thief\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dev Anand<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> starrer, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Banarasi Babu<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d he said<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cThat is not true. We had a lead character who was a Banarasi and felt that it would add to the film\u2019s appeal. So, after \u2018Yeh Mera Dil\u2019 and \u2018Main Hoon Don\u2019, which also I composed, I created \u2018Khaike Paan Banaras Wala\u2019\u201d. Shah, who is the younger brother of the composer duo Kalyanji-Anandji, worked as a rhythmist in the film industry and believes it is the clever mix of a roto-drum set and the tabla that gives the song its special edge.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s a lot more to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019s <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">enduring appeal that goes well beyond the song. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Revisiting <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at 44 is an even more exhilarating experience: the slick, pulpy thriller still reflects the dualities that jangle the nerve ends of our troubled nation \u2013 the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/rich-friends-broke-money-friendships\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rich <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">versus poor divide, the rural versus <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/trapped-review-rajkummar-rao-vikramaditya-motwane-black-mirror-127-hours\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">urban<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> chasm, the modern girl versus the desi male, good versus evil. However, what sets <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> apart is that it didn\u2019t choose the furrowed-browed mofussil realism that has plagued so much of new Bollywood. <\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">Close on the heels of the debacle of Satyam Shivam Sundaram, where she\u2019d made a botched attempt to elevate herself from sex symbol to faux-thespian, Don put Zeenat in her place: as the nation\u2019s most glamorous diva.<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> made these dualities fun: With smugglers in safaris, vamps in hyper-feline contact lenses, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/raazi-movie-review-alia-bhatt-meghna-gulzar\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">double agents<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with the single-mindedness to dick over their peers in style (Om Shivpuri as a cop-cum-impostor deserves a posthumous Padma Shri here), and a much-coveted red diary that is as slippery as a Bombay duck plucked out of the Arabian Sea. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By the late \u201970s, the double-role trope was not new to Bollywood. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seeta aur Geeta, Ram aur Shyam,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and lot had already juxtaposed the country bumpkin with the urban slickster. What struck a chord across the Indian hinterland was Amitabh, the home-grown Allahabadi superstar, playing an unabashed paan-chewing, happy-go-lucky bhaiyya from Uttar Pradesh in cosmopolitan <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/shudh-mumbai-romance-my-broker-and-i-house-hunting\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bombay<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. At one moment, he was swinging his hips in a checked lungi and faded orange shirt to \u201cEe Hai Bambai Nagariya Tu Dekh Babua\u201d; at another, he had transformed into the suave Great Gambler who could drive women wild. However, unlike the double role flicks above, Don and Inspector Vijay were not twins separated at birth; together, they comprised a schizophrenic entity that somehow pulls it together via a rabid, chaotic plot. Their contrasting energies are much like how India rambles on with its many contradictions.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This was a superstar at the high noon of his craft. The chhora Ganga kinare-wala that we continue to fall in love with, even in 2018.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I can\u2019t even begin to recount what Zeenat Aman did for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Close on the heels of the debacle of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Satyam Shivam Sundaram<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where she\u2019d made a botched attempt to elevate herself from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/series\/sexuality-and-the-city\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sex<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> symbol to faux-thespian, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">put Zeenat in her place: as the nation\u2019s most glamorous diva. From her androgynous get-up as Roma, the good girl fighting the bad guys with her karate chops, to her dazzling shimmy in \u201cJiska Mujhe Tha Intezar\u201d, the actress defined seduction for a generation. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYeh ladki jungli billi ki tarah furteeli aur khatarnak hain, aur mujhe jungli billiya pasand hain,\u201d applauds Don on first casting his eyes on Roma in his den. \u201cThis girl is as sharp and dangerous as a wild cat. And I love wild cats.\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So much of the national press was obsessed with Amitabh\u2019s alleged affair with Rekha in the late \u201970s that it often glossed over the sizzling chemistry he shared with Zeenat. Rekha and Amitabh might have been all heart and soul, but Zeenat and Amitabh were all flesh and blood. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is only one question that remains. Is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> slickest film to emerge from Amitabh\u2019s heyday? <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In my books, it isn\u2019t, but it is certainly his best. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/grub\/gulabjaam-marathi-cinema-food-2\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Films<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are as much about style as the zeitgeist they capture: The do-or-die gusto with which <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was produced gives it a raw, crowd-sourced feel, from Helen\u2019s sexiest cabaret act ever to Iftekhar\u2019s earnest cameo as a police officer. And like the best films, it evoked a time and place in the nation\u2019s history \u2014 a socialist circus, perfect for the summer of 1978. <\/span>\n\n\u00a0\n\n\u00a0\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don is one of Amitabh Bachchan\u2019s slickest film.The 1978 blockbuster took mofussil funk to new heights with its chhora Ganga kinare-wala act, before the realists came and spoiled the party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":2553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3114],"tags":[5186,702,792,141,26,794,5187,5188],"class_list":["post-2552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bollywood","tag-40-years","tag-amitabh-bachchan","tag-big-b","tag-bollywood","tag-cinema","tag-don","tag-helen","tag-zeenat"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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