Credited cast: | |||
Abhishek Bachchan | ... | Sameer 'Sam' Acharya | |
John Abraham | ... | Kunal Chauhan | |
Priyanka Chopra | ... | Neha Melwani | |
Kirron Kher | ... | Mrs. Acharya (as Kiron Kher) | |
Bobby Deol | ... | Abhimanyu 'Abhi' Singh | |
Boman Irani | ... | Murli 'M' | |
Sushmita Mukherjee | ... | Ms. Melwani | |
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Eduardo M. Freyre | ... | Paul McCartney |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Liannette Altuve | ... | Motorcycle Babe |
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Steven Baker | ... | Magazine Editor |
Everlayn Borges | ... | Model | |
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Claudia Camacho | ... | Girl at the park |
Anthony Correa | ... | Fan | |
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Aoife Dineen | ... | Clapping Girl |
Monika Gaba | ... | Anaita |
After the passing of her parents, Neha Melwani lives in Miami with her aunt. She rents out a room in her apartment to two seemingly gay Indian men, Kunal Chauhan and Sameer Acharya, a photographer and nurser respectively. She introduces them to her departing gay boss, Murli, and falls in love with her new boss, Abhimanyu Singh. She will soon realize that she has two rivals for her new love - none other than Kunal and Sameer. Written by rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
Well Dostana from Dharma Productions instantly brings back the memories of the hit 80s cheesy flick which was quite enjoyable because of the star cast mainly..Nothings different here..The films cheesy,over the top, mindless but fun and stays afloat only because the camaraderie between the cast mainly...
The story is not novel, a bit borrowed from last year flop Now I Pronounce Chuck and Larry which wasn't very funny either..But Dostana is funny and funny because the actors make it so..The writing is poor and so is the editing..The film could have been a good 15 minutes short (the second half is unending)..The first is good though..
Abhisekh Bachchan was always good with comedy but he is a revelation in this..He is funny as hell and carries the film all through..John is okay, his facial expressions never change though..Priyanka is hot and looks ravishing all along..She has looked her best after a long time..Boman Irani was extremely funny and so was Sushmita Mukherjee..Bobby Deol track looks forced and so the actor doesn't impress..
Music is good, especially Desi Girl and Jaane Kyun..Tarun Mansukhani the director has a good future..He showed some talent! The good thing about Dostana is that it stretches the limits of Indian Cinema..Films like this would never have been conceived 5 or 10 years back..Its a growth en-route progress but how I hope the result would have as desiring..And I felt the portrayal of gays is still not in much positive light..They are still shown as pretentious, perverted people which actually is misleading..
Overall I enjoyed it barring a few places in the second half and climax could have better thought of and executed..
5.5/10