Big B Gets Nostalgic About DON
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Wednesday, 22nd April 2015, 4:41 PM IST ‘Don’ is surely one of the best films of megastar Amitabh Bachchan, and recently, the film completed 37 years of its release. So, Big B became nostalgic about it. On Twitter, the megastar posted, “37 years of DON .. today !! Incredible ! A journey that still continues !” On his blog, Big B wrote a detailed note about the film. He wrote, “37 years of ‘DON’ today. A film made by that gentle giant Nariman Irani, the DOP of extreme excellence. He was all heart. Never ever did I see or hear him in loud tones or anger. ‘Keys of the Kingdom’ he would address me .. and I still have not figured what it meant. He passed away suddenly and dramatically. he was not supposed to leave us that soon. Was shooting for a film at RajKamal Studios and saw a portion of the set begin to fall on a little kid playing below it. Ran to save the child. He did. But injured himself in the effort. Broke his femur, was hospitalised, went into surgery and came out well. Few days later complications set in and he passed away. Strange, and sudden. Tragedy … he never lived to see the success of his film ‘DON’. That year of its release Filmfare gave me Best Actor. I went up to receive it and dedicated it to Nariman Baba, and asked his wife in the audience, still grieving the loss of her husband to come up and take the award .. a poignant moment ! ‘Khaike pan …’ was an after thought. Manoj Kumar saw the film rough cut and asked Chandra Barot the director of DON, and Manoj ji’s assistant director in all his films, to add a song in the second half .. and that was it .. It was shot in second shifts at Mehboob Studios from 2-10pm, when I was doing an action sequence in China Creek, a couple of hours away from the city, in the morning shift 7am-2pm. During the action scene, I had hurt my feet and had huge burn boils on the palm of my feet. Could not wear shoes, or walk. The song was bare foot … so … took pain killer injections on my feet before each shot and completed the song and the scene … Saroj Khan, the ace dance director would much later tell me that she was in Dubai when the film was released, and after seeing the song she went every day for several days just to see the song. The theatre owners would eventually allow her in free, just because she would come at the time of the song and leave .. Salim-Javed saw the rushes of the film .. more importantly, the rushes of the pan eating duplicate DON, and sent me a telegram, in Srinagar where I was shooting for another film congratulating me. It was a most encouraging moment for me I remember. I still remember the room in the Palace Hotel, when I received the message, and my inner feeling of great joy on its contents … 37 years ..today .. it hit the screens .. time .. time has passed !!” Now you can enjoy ad-free experience by downloading India’s first Box Office mobile app from here –Android: http://bit.ly/BOCapsuleMobileApp and iOS: bit.ly/BOCapsuleiOSApp |