Chandra Barot is an Indian
film director
A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...
, working primarily in the
Hindi film industry based in
Mumbai
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,
Maharashtra
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. Barot is best known for having directed the 1978 film ''
Don'' which has attained
cult status
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in India,
and has been an inspiration to various remakes and sequences, including the
Shah Rukh Khan
Shah Rukh Khan (; born 2 November 1965), also known by the initialism SRK, is an Indian actor and film producer who works in Hindi cinema. Referred to in the media as the "Padishah, Baadshah of Bollywood" and "King Khan", he has Shah Rukh K ...
version discussed in 2023, which caused a degree of controversy.
Barot has also been Assistant Director to actor-director
Manoj Kumar
Manoj Kumar (born Harikrishan Giri Goswami; 24 July 1937 – 4 April 2025) was an Indian actor, film director, screenwriter, lyricist and editor who worked in Hindi cinema.
He is regarded as one of the greatest and most successful actors in t ...
in ''
Purab Aur Pachhim''. After ''Don'', he directed the 1989
Bengali film ''Aashrita'', which grossed .
[
His shelved films include ''Hong Kong Wali Script'' and ''Neil Ko Pakadna....Impossible''.]
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Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century Indian people
Bengali film directors
Film directors from Mumbai
Hindi-language film directors
Living people