Producer: Shakti Samanta
Director: Ashim Samanta
Cast: Hrishita Bhatt, Mithun Chakraborty, Shakti Kapoor, Rohit Roy, Ali Asgar, Dolly Minhas,
Music: Anu Malik

Mithun starrer Don Muthuswami can rightly be called as the Hindi rip-off of the Sylvester Stallone starrer, the English comedy ‘Oscar’. Though the film fails to garner credentials that the original film does, it’s only Mithun who does entertain and keeps the pace of the film going. The film is worth a watch only because of him.

The story dates back to the early 70s when Bombay was dominated by smugglers and gangsters. Don was one of them. While paying the last respect to his dying father, he gets a slap from him for being on the wrong path and bringing shame to the family. His father expects him to leave the dirty ways and make a better living. Complying to his father’s wish, Don Muthuswami aspires to come clean and lead a gentleman life. This is how the comedy track in the film comes into fore.

Muthuswami orders his henchmen to work for him but not as gangsters but as social workers. As he is a South Indian not having adequate language skills he hires the service of a Hindi/Urdu teacher Jaikishen (Mohit Raina) to skill himself. But his life goes for a toss when matters relating to his daughter Sanjana’s (Hrishita Bhatt) marriage comes up. Muthu wants to marry her off to his good friend gangster’s son Pradhan. Sanjana to avoid the marriage says that she is pregnant. Muthu’s general manager Preetam (Rohit Roy) loves her and has been stealing on him to make himself rich. Here Ranjana (Anusmriti) confesses to Muthu about her love for Preetam and had lied to him about being Muthu’s daughter. Sanjana and Jaikishen fall in love and want to get married. Twist and turn, chaos and confusion make this mindless comedy an enjoyable ride.

The best part of the film is Mithun. The worst part, there are many. One cannot overlook the jaded look of the film sans any technology. Ashim Samanta's direction is all right. Anu Malik fails to come up with an appealing score. Cinematography by Harish Joshi is decent.

Performance wise Mithun satnds out. Rohit Roy is also good. Shakti Kapoor and Mohit Raina are passable. Hrishita Bhatt is over the top.