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Don (Amitabh Bachchan) is the most ruthless gangster & killer of a
crime syndicate, he is in fact so notorious that Interpol has sent a man,
Malik (Om Shivpuri) to hunt him down. But the man who actually catches
Don, who shortly later dies in his car, is D.S.P. De Silva (Iftekhar)
- but D.S.P. keeps Don's death a secret, as he wants to catch the men
behind Don as well, & to this end he hires a poor street performer,
Vijay (also Amitabh Bachchan), to impersonate Don & infiltrae the
gang, whiile he sends Vijay's adopted kids to a good boarding school Vijay
could never have afforded.
As a pretense,Vijay/Don is kept at a hospital, heavily
guarded, but still he is broken free by Don''s gang, led by lovely Roma
(Zeenat Aman), Don's bodyguard, but really a woman who wants to kill don
with her own hands because he ahs killed her sister Sonia (Helen) &
just waits for the perfect opportunity - but naturally she doesn't know
that Vijay is not Don, & he doesn't know what she's up to & falls
in love with her.
Only eventually, when she is already in the process of killing him (she
has already dropped him from a high building, & only a swimming pool
that just happened to be around kept hjim from crashing into concrete)
does he make himself known to her, & actually manages to convince her
that they are on the same side (with D.S.P. De Silva's help). Soon,
Vijay & D.S.P. set a date for a raid on Don's gang, & to end the
whole charade & let Vijay continue with his normal life ... But the
plan is almost brought to an end before it had started when J.J. (Pran), a
former circus performer turned criminal who was thrown into the slammer by
D.S.P. turns up & wants to kill him for revenge. Only when it turns
out that D.S.P. has sent J.J.'s kids, incidently Vijay's adoptive kids, to
a boarding school, can he buy enugh time from J.J. to at least go through
with the raid ... during which D.S.P. s killed though, & Vijay, whose
real identity is only known to D.S.P. & to Roma, is arrested as Don.
When he tries to convince the poice though he's not Don, he only succeeds
in convincing the gangsters (who he's in a cell with), & when he tries
to find evidence - an adress book he has stolen from Don's safe &
brought to D.S.P -, he finds D.S.P.'s appartment ransacked & the book
gone. Only when he is transferred to the prison, can he escape the
police when causing the transporter to crash, but the whole gang, who's
now on to him, escapes as well. Soon though, the head of the gang is
found out: inspector Malik of Interpol himself, & J.J., the man
who has actually ransacked D.S.P.'s appartment & stolen the adress
book, now wants to sell it back to the gang to at least earn a little
profit from D.S.P.'s demise ... but first he has to fight Vihjay,
mistaking him for someone who wants to harm his kids, only when his kids
tell him that Vijay looked after them does he realize that they are on the
same side - even more so when Vijay tells him that it was actually Malik's
gang - whom he now wants to sell the adress book - that drove him to crime
& then abandoned him when he got caught. Now J.J., Vijay & Roma
decide to lure out Malik & gang with the adress book, then take them
on in a fight fought with guns, knives & fists - & the occasional
explosion - & our trio actually seem to be on the winning side, until
the police arrives & wants to arrest them, still believing malik to be
an honest Interpol inspector ... only when Vijay manages to produce the
adress book can he convince the police otherwise, & our heroes have
actually defeated the syndicate ... A straightforward,
simplified gangster tale with easily recognizable good 6 bad guys, &
bathing in genre clichés ... & it'S a great movie, nevertheless, not
one minute forgetting to entertain, fast paced with a enjoyable succession
of car chases, fist fights & musical numbers, done in glaring colours
in typical 1970's fashion & furniture, with jiu-jitsu fighting babe Zeenat
Aman (not very convincing but still fancy-looking), & Amitabh Bachchan
as the King of Cool (I doubt it if he was ever as cool as in this one), in
a wardrobe that's just too good to be true. & the funky incidental
music by composer duo Kalyanji-Anandji is of course great.
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