Chandra Barot

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Chandra Barot (1939 – 20 July 2025) was an Indian film director, working primarily in the Hindi film industry based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Barot is best known for having directed the 1978 film Don which has attained cult status in India, and was an inspiration to various remakes and sequences, including the Shah Rukh Khan version released in 2006, which caused a degree of controversy. Barot moved from Tanzania, the country where he was born and brought up, to India and joined actor-director Manoj Kumar as an assistant director. He assisted Manoj Kumar on several films, including Purab Aur Pachhim (1970), Yaadgaar (1970), Shor (1972), and Roti Kapda Aur Makaan (1974). Before the filming of Don was completed, producer Nariman Irani died in an accident on the set of another film he was working on. During the shooting of Manoj Kumar's Kranti in November 1977 at Rajkamal Kalamandir Studios, Bombay, a sudden cloudburst caused a wall to collapse on Irani. He was seriously injured, hospitalized...

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