Farhan Akhtar’s Don which turns 18 on October 20 was not easy to do. Farhan had to struggle to get the rights of the original. A certain procedure had to be followed in getting the remake rights. Farhan had to put in a public notice in the trade papers announcing his intentions to remake the film. The late producer Nariman Irani’s wife, Salma Irani, had to give her consent. Recalled Farhan in a throwback interview, “I wanted to make Don with the title and the characters being called as per the original . I want to remake Don as I’d