Dosti: Friends Forever

Dosti: Friends Forever
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Suneel Dharshan
Produced by	Suneel Dharshan
Screenplay by	Robin Bhatt Rumi Jaffery K K Singh Shyam Goel
Story by	Suneel Dharshan
Starring	Akshay Kumar Bobby Deol Lara Dutta Kareena Kapoor Juhi Chawla
Music by	Nadeem-Shravan
Cinematography	W B Rao
Editing by	Sanjay Sankla
Distributed by	Shree Krishna International
Release date(s)	December 23, 2005
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Dosti: Friends Forever (Hindi: दोस्ती, Urdu: دوستی, translation: friendship) is a 2005 Hindi romance film directed by Suneel Darshan starring Akshay Kumar and Bobby Deol in the lead roles. It also stars Lara Dutta, Kareena Kapoor and Juhi Chawla in supporting roles.

Plot

Karan Thapar (Bobby Deol) lives a wealthy yet very lonesome lifestyle with his businessman dad (Kiran Kumar), mom-Kiran (Lillete Dubey), and sister-Nandini, as no one has time for him. One day while at the family's farmhouse, he loses his step and almost falls down a deep gorge, but is rescued by Raj Malhotra (Akshay Kumar), who is an orphan, living a poor lifestyle with his abusive maternal uncle. Karan and Raj become inseparable friends, and Raj moves in to live with Karan, much to the chagrin of the Thapar family who shun and dislike Raj. Years later both Raj and Karan have matured, while Raj is in love with his childhood sweetheart, Anjali (Kareena Kapoor) and wants to marry her, while Karan flirts with Leena Bharucha (Sherlyn Chopra), and abandons her. Karan subsequently meets with London-returned Kajal Sharma (Lara Dutta), successfully woos and then gets her to agree to marry him. Both Raj's and Karan's wedding is planned on the same day, when things take a turn for the worse: Leena and her dad, who is employed by Thapar, expose both friends as flirts. Consequently, Anjali's brother cancels the wedding and gets her married to someone else. Raj is later shown suffering from a fatal disease, and while his doctor, Dr.Aditi (Juhi Chawla), tries to save him, with all the treatment sponsored by Karan, Raj dies. Karan eventually gets married to Kajal, and the couple name their child after Raj.

Cast

• Bobby Deol as Karan Thapar
• Akshay Kumar as Raj Malhotra
• Juhi Chawla as Dr. Aditi
• Kareena Kapoor as Anjali
• Lara Dutta as Kajal Sharma
• Kiran Kumar as Thapar
• Lillete Dubey as Kiran Thapar
• Sherlyn Chopra as Leena Bharucha
• Shakti Kapoor as Bharucha (Leena's father)
• Karishma Tanna as Nandini Thapar
• Mahesh Thakur as Bhaskar
• Navni Parihar - (Anjali’s sister-in-law)
• Aman Verma as Anjali's husband
• Dolly Bindra

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Nadeem-Shravan, and the lyrics were penned by Sameer.

Track listing

No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Aisa Koi Zindagi Mein"	Abhijeet, Alka Yagnik	5:13
2.	"Aur Tum Aaye"	Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik	5:19
3.	"Dulhania"	Kunal Ganjawala, Abhijeet, Alka Yagnik	5:26
4.	"Ishq Na Ishq Ho"	Sukhwinder Singh, Kailash Kher	8:03
5.	"Let's Boogie Woogie"	Kunal Ganjawala, Vasundhara Das, Earl	5:45
6.	"Yaar Di Shaadi"	Sonu Nigam, Abhijeet, Alka Yagnik, Sarika Kapoor	5:05
7.	"Yeh Dosti"	Udit Narayan, Sonu Nigam	7:05

Box-Office

In India, the film did below average business. But in the UK, the film was a blockbuster. It turned out to be the highest grosser of Hindi films in 2005 in the UK, grossing around £888,000. In the US it did superb as well grossing over 1.5 million dollars.

External links

• Dosti: Friends Forever at the Internet Movie Database