|  Don - The Chase Begins Again released on 20th October 2006 is the remake of the 1978 film Don, directed by Farhan Akhtar. The script of the previous film was written by his father, Javed Akhtar and Salim Khan (father of Salman Khan).
The original film starred Amitabh Bachchan, Zeenat Aman, Pran and Helen. The new film stars Shahrukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Arjun Rampal, Isha Koppikar and Kareena Kapoor in a special appearance. 80% of the movie has been shot in Malaysia, and has been filmed around the tropical Langkawi island as well as the towering Petronas Twin Towers here and the Jalan Masjid India area, which is the 'little India' of Kuala Lumpur. The film released on October 20, 2006. It was also released in other countries at the same timeIn 2006, the drug trade is booming. The Malaysian Intelligence and Anti-Narcotic Department are called upon for assistance by their Indian counterparts. There are rumours that a drug gang has recently moved their headquarters to Kuala Lampur.The Indian team is headed by DCP DeSilva (Boman Irani) who wants to break the back of the drug operations of a drug lord named Singhania. Also helping him is Malik (Om Puri). He believes that capturing his dangerous and elusive lieutenant, Don (Shahrukh Khan) will be the most effective way of accomplishing this. Don's gang consist of Narang (Pawan Malhotra) and Anita (Isha Koppikar). Soon Roma (Priyanka Chopra) joins them but she has other plans - to kill Don. Don was responsible for killing her brother Ramesh as well as his fiancee Kamini (Kareena Kapoor)
During a chase with the police the real Don is injured and is captured by DeSilva. He keeps it a secret even from his fellow officers and sends a look-a-like Vijay to infiltrate Don's gang and retrieve a disc which has all the important information about the gang.
DeSilva trains Vijay and admits him in a hospital (in which Don is also admitted) to surgically give him all the scars the real Don had on his body. However Don dies suddenly in front of Vijay, DeSilva and the doctors who are unable to save him. While Vijay is infiltrating Don's gang DeSilva dies and now Vijay is on the run from the police as well as Don's gang members. Vijay is on the run and is now on the lookout for the last piece of evidence (a disc) that can get him out of this mess.
However, there is a major twist at the end. Vijay is not Vijay, but he is Don, who killed Vijay at the beginning. So we never saw Vijay, it was always Don, who wanted the whole lucrative drugs market for himself. Also DeSilva is not who we think he is as well, he is the other major drug dealer Vardhaan, who wants the disc for his own benefit, but he finally gets captured by the police after a fight with Vijay who we later see as Don.
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