Chandra Barot is an Indian
film director, working primarily in the
Hindi film industry based in
Mumbai
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' fin ...
,
Maharashtra. He is best known for having directed the 1978 film ''
Don
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Places
*County Donegal, Ireland, Chapman code DON
*Don (river), a river in European Russia
*Don River (disambiguation), several other rivers with the name
*Don, Benin, a town in Benin
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'' which has attained
cult status
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in India.
The film has been inspiration to various remakes and sequences.
Barot has also been Assistant Director to actor-director
Manoj Kumar
Harikrishan Goswami (born 24 July 1937), better known by his screen name Manoj Kumar, is an Indian actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, lyricist and editor who worked in Hindi cinema. He is known for acting and making films with patriotic theme ...
in ''
Purab Aur Pachhim''. After ''Don'', he directed the 1989
Bengali film ''Aashrita'', which grossed .
[
His upcoming films include ''Hong Kong Wali Script'' and ''Neil Ko Pakadna....Impossible''.]
Filmography
References
External links
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Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century Indian film directors
Bengali film directors
Film directors from Mumbai
Hindi-language film directors
Living people