SORRY DOST!!

FILM: Dostana
DIRECTOR: Tarun Mansukhani
CAST: Priyanka Chopra, Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham.




The movie has started. The camera speeds through a water body and then we see an American city with tall buildings. No guys you are not watching Kal Ho Na Ho, this is the new flick from the same banner, Dostana!

The promos of Dostana revealing Priyanka in a very very hot swimsuit, John with his irresistible packs and cuts, Abhishek with his cute regular face, made many of the young people excited about this movie. The good music by Vishal and Shekhar only added to the excitement. But this Tarun Mansukhani directed movie is in one word a "disaster".

This was meant to be a Bollywood comedy hence I have no authority to scrutinize it or find faults in the direction or something, but all this should do is make me really laugh aloud. Unfortunately this movie fails in doing so. Though few jokes are really funny, like the joke in which Abhishek refers Gabbar Singh as gay.

Two almost strangers, John and Abhi, act gay to get a room in an apartment which would cost them 2000 $. Well I dont know why they had to go through all this mess. They could have rather found some other place with the same money. Now situations force them too get themselves registered as gays. Priyanka owns the apartment and hence stays with them and this develops the three into a dostana. After this point the movie seems to keep losing sense. I mean initially they showed John to be lusty and desperate, but there were very few instances highlighting this fact later. Or may be it was unclear that how could Priyanka not have any straight guys roaming around her even though she was so beautiful and successful. Anyways.

Finally there comes a guy in Bobby Deol who is someone of professional rivalry to Priyanka. This rivalry soon develops into love. Though attempts were made to show this transition but the screenplay couldnt support this emotional transition. So its all confusion when John , Abhishek and Bobby like Priyanka. Priyanka likes the three too, but cant get to the two as she thinks they are gay. Amidst all this the plot starts loosening. From men stripping and then dancing in a prestigious auction to John and Abhishek actually locking lips(dont you think I should have kept this under wraps??), this movie ventures into unwanted zones as far as the story was concerned.

The movie, as I mentioned before, keeps giving you glimpses of Kal Ho Naa Ho and its major product, Kantaben. Kirron Kher and Boman Irani appear and disappear. So all and all the comedy part was not that funny, the sad part was not at all touching and the climax felt like what the...

Bobby Deol has been made a fool in this movie. They havent kept him in the promos and purposely made him arrive late at places where dance numbers would take place, and called his act in the movie a guest appearance, but hes very much a full fledged character in the movie! He would be disappointed.

As I said such movies should not be judged on basis of practicality or reality but only by the "how much you laughed" factor. And I didnt laugh much to be honest. Some time ago I read that Priyadarshan is remaking the Iranian classic Children of Heaven with Darsheel Safary as Bum Bum Bole. While I suggest he should not be making that movie (rather ruin the classic), I also suggest he should have made Dostana with the same Dharma Productions' meaninglessly expensive production. So not really thumbs up to this Dostana, you could do without watching it.