Amitabh Bachchan Pence Hartfelt Note to ‘Don’ director Chandra Barot

Veteran filmmaker Chandra Barot, 1978 is known for the direction of Amitabh Bachchan-Starrer MalayHis family said that on Sunday (July 20, 2025), a hospital in Mumbai died due to cardiac arrest. He was 86 years old.

After the announcement of Barot’s demise, tributes were paid to many Bollywood celebrities including megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who described the filmmaker as his “dear friend”.

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Barot has been battling ‘Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis’ (lung-fibrosis) for the last 11 years and was receiving treatment at Guru Nanak Hospital according to his family. Chandra Barot is alive by his wife and a son.

In a hearty note, Bachchan said that he was deeply saddened by his close friend Barot.

“Another and another sad moment .. Dear dear friend and my director of Don – Chandra Barot died this morning.

The 82 -year -old actor wrote on his blog, “It is difficult to harm the loss. We worked together, yes, but he was more family friend than someone else .. I can only pray.”

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Before starting with your direction MalayBarot served as an assistant director in actor-director Manoj Kumar Purba and Pachim, Bread Capada and House, memorableAnd Noise,

after MalayChandra Barot directed a Bengali film – Ashrita (1989).

Was released in May 1978, MalayAmitabh Bachchan in a dual role – characteristic of a mafioso and a simulton – became a blockbuster with his receipt music, iconic dialogues and pulsed action.

One of the most famous films of Chandra Barot’s career, Malay The ups and downs had its own proper part.

On the 40th anniversary of the film in 2018, Chandra Barot in an interview PTI An interesting insight shared that he along with his friends decided to make a film to make Amitabh Bachchan, Zeenat Aman and Pran – all three, who portrayed “Don”, one of his producer friends, Nariman Irani out of debt.

“Bawa’s (Iranian) wife was a barber and knew the author Salim Khan. We asked her to put her in a word. When we met Salim, she did not have the script ready, but she told us, ‘There is a subject that no one considers’.

“We said, ‘We don’t care, we just want to write’ Salim-Javit ‘on the poster. It was a ready script and we took it immediately. It was not even a title. Everyone in the industry calls it’Don wali script(A script about a don), “Chandra Barot remembered.

Sadly, Irani died six months before the release of Irani MalayHe said. The filmmaker also revealed that many big stars of the industry, including Dharmendra, Jeetendra and Dev Anand, refused the film, one of the highest -grossing Indian films of 1978.

Malay Javed Akhtar’s son was converted into a franchise by filmmaker Farhan Akhtar, who wrote the original script of the film with Salim Khan.

Film industry colleagues resorted to social media to mourn the death of Chandra Barot, remembering him as a wonderful filmmaker, who made one of the most entertaining Hindi films – Malay,