Don is a 2022 Indian Tamil-language coming-of-age comedy drama film written and directed by Cibi Chakaravarthi in his directorial debut.

The film revolves around a reluctant engineering student repeatedly clashing with his college's discipline mentor, while still trying to discover his passion in life and prove his eligibility to his father.

It was shot extensively across Tamil Nadu including Coimbatore, Chennai, Pollachi and Udumalaipettai, while a song was filmed in Agra.

The film features music composed by Anirudh Ravichander, with cinematography and editing by K. M. Bhaskaran and Nagooran Ramachandran respectively.

Don was released in theatres on 13 May 2022 and received positive reviews from critics, praising the cast performances (especially Sivakarthikeyan, Samuthirakani, S. J. Suryah and Soori), music, story, visuals, humour, emotional weight, social message and climax, and became a huge commercial success at the box office worldwide.

Chakaravarthi constructs a plan to send Bhoominathan away to be a visiting professor at St. Paul's University in Russia so that students can be happy.

Lilly explains to Chakravarthi that, after the incident in their school days, Angu's father stopped talking to her.

In a mix of guns, drama, and confusion, Bhoominathan suffers an accident that severely injures his neck, but he eventually survives.

Ganesan discovers Chakaravarthi's secret filmmaking and destroys his short film, resulting in an intense confrontation between them.

Chakaravarthi gets added to the Proud Alumni list at BEC, which was something he asked Bhoominathan in his earlier college days jokingly.

In August 2017, Sivakarthikeyan was reported to collaborate with his friend Vignesh Shivan, post Suriya's Thaanaa Serndha Koottam, with the film's producer K. E. Gnanavel Raja of Studio Green also obtained its rights for the forthcoming project.

[6] In March 2019, Lyca Productions announced another project featuring Sivakarthikeyan and Vignesh Shivan with Anirudh Ravichander set to score music.

[15] In an interview with Ananda Vikatan, Chakravarthi described Don as an extended version of a short film titled Bittu, starring Kaali Venkat and Bala Saravanan.

He said Bittu was initially scheduled to be premiered as a television pilot, but due to difficulties, he instead released it as a short film on the internet.

[18] On 3 February 2021, the makers announced the principal cast of the film which included Priyanka Mohan, S. J. Suryah, and Samuthirakani.

[21] The next week, Munishkanth, Bala Saravanan, Kaali Venkat, RJ Vijay, and Sivaangi Krishnakumar (in her acting debut) were also announced as part of the cast.

[31] The team intended to start the next schedule of filming, but was halted on late-April 2021 due to the rise in COVID-19 cases in Tamil Nadu.

[42] On 9 November 2021, Sivakarthikeyan tweeted that he had completed the dubbing works of the film in Chennai, despite the bad weather prevailing.

[16] In an interview to Radio Mirchi, Anirudh revealed that the film will feature five songs and will be a youthful album to be appreciated by the masses.

[46] On 16 December 2021, the first single track from the film titled "Jalabulajangu" was released by Sony Music,[47] which features vocals written by Rokesh and sung by the composer himself.

[50] In the year-end review for Cinema Express, Avinash Ramachandran's article about Jukebox 2021, mentioned the track regarding the use of trending and popular words in film songs.

[61][62] The film was finally released theatrically on that date along with a Telugu dubbed version titled College Don.

[63] The distribution rights of the film in Tamil Nadu were acquired by Udhayanidhi Stalin under the banner of Red Giant Movies.

[67] Don began streaming on Netflix from 10 June 2022,[68] and had its television premiere on Kalaignar TV on 24 October the same year.

[79] Praveen Sudevan of The Hindu gave a negative review: "After a stoic detour from Doctor, Sivakarthikeyan is back laughing and crying, singing and dancing, but he still cannot salvage Don's humdrum affair".

[80] Janani K. of India Today gave 3 out of 5 stars stating that "Don is a mindless entertainer with a moving message.

[82] Ashameera Aiyappan of Firstpost rated the film 2.5 out of 5, stating, "It aims to speak of the well-oiled processing machine that our education system is.

Samuthirakani walks away with all the brownie points for his moving performance as a father who gives up on his own dreams to make sure his son stays happy.

Though our sympathies lie with Chakravarthy, the film remembers that he's still a naïve, college student, who lacks the capacity to see the bigger picture".

[86] Manoj Kumar R of The Indian Express gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, stating, "The coming-of-age campus drama is all about the protagonist learning there are no villains in his life.