Dostana- A Review

Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham, Priyanka Chopra, Bobby Deol, Boman Irani, Kiron Kher
Producer: Hiroo Yash Johar and Karan Johar
Director, Story, Screenplay: Tarun Mansukhani
Music Director: Vishal-Shekar
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Rating: ***
Review: Birjis Adeni Rashed

Website:http://www.dostanathefilm.com/


It starts hilarious, witty, comic and funny and then …….it gets dramatic, soar, pathetic and boring! Well strange as it may sound, you enjoy a whole lot of laughs while checking out the babes and dudes for the first half of the movie, and later see the movie fall apart and turn clichéd and senseless!

Dostana is another well handled Karan Johar’s ploys of subtly introducing gay characters (though pretend) in a comic performance by Bollywood’s superstars with an understated message towards social acceptability of homosexual couples!


It’s a story about how two guys in lure of co-renting an upscale Miami apartment and moving in with the sexy single girl pretend to be gay. But their pretension turns difficult when they end up falling in love with her! The story later gets complicated and characters get devious when there is more competition in love.


Abhishek Bachchan’s acting skills bring humor and comedy to the movie. While John Abraham is eye candy, with his cute looks, abs and biceps; Priyanka Chopra looks gorgeous and sizzling. The threesome makes a surprisingly good team. Bobby Deol is bland and boring. Kiron Kher is her usually sweet dramatic self. Her sequence of making a stud like John go through a bridal ceremony of an incoming daughter- in law/son- in law into the family is very hilarious. Yet it does not mock and tries to find a fix or simplify the new complex sexual dynamics!

The music is pleasing and enjoyable; Couple of numbers which will surely get popular are ‘desi girl’, ‘Maa da Ladla’ and ‘Janee kyun’. Khabar nahi and kuch kam are soft romantic numbers with good lyrics.


A movie about friendship or dostana could have been better, if besides some brilliant comedy and witty humor it had better developed characters and have a story with substance than the flaky love story.

Its worth checking out for some good laughs if you don’t care about endings!