Dosti: Friends Forever

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Dosti: Friends Forever
Salim-Sulaiman
Distributed byShree Krishna International
Release date
  • 23 December 2005 (2005-12-23)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹150 million (US$1.9 million)[1]
Box office₹230 million (US$2.9 million)[1]

Dosti: Friends Forever is a 2005 Indian

Kareena Kapoor and Lara Dutta. Juhi Chawla makes a special appearance.[2][3][4][5]

Plot

Karan Thapar (Bobby Deol) lives a wealthy yet very lonesome lifestyle with his business tycoon father Vikram Thapar (Kiran Kumar), mother Kiran Thapar (Lillete Dubey), and sister Nandini Thapar (Karishma Tanna) 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. He is rescued by Raj Malhotra (Akshay Kumar), 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 members who dislike Raj.

Years later, Raj and Karan are grown up; Raj is in love with his childhood sweetheart Anjali Saluja (

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
) and woos her. She agrees to marry him. Raj's and Karan's weddings are planned for the same day. Things take a turn for the worse when Leena and her dad, who is employed by Thapar, characterize the friends as flirts. Consequently, Kajal breaks up with Karan and Anjali's brother cancels her wedding with Raj.

It is later revealed that Raj is in the hospital and is suffering from a fatal disorder. Dr. Aditi Mathur (Juhi Chawla) is his doctor and she is trying to save Raj’s life and Karan arrives there and hugs Raj in tears later Raj dies 2 years later Karan eventually marries Kajal. Karan and Kajal name their child after Raj.

Cast

  • Akshay Kumar as Raj Malhotra, Karan's best friend and Anjali's love interest, (fatal disorder patient)
  • Bobby Deol as Karan Thapar, Raj's best friend, Vikram and Kiran's son, Nandini's brother and Kajal's love interest
  • Kareena Kapoor
    as Anjali Saluja, Raj's love interest
  • Lara Dutta as Kajal Sharma Thapar, Karan's love interest
  • Lillete Dubey as Kiran Thapar, Karan and Nandini's mother
  • Juhi Chawla as Dr.Aditi Mathur (special appearance)
  • Kiran Kumar as Vikram Thapar, Karan and Nandini's father
  • Sherlyn Chopra as Leena Bharucha
  • Shakti Kapoor as Mr. Varun Bharucha (Leena's father)
  • Karishma Tanna as Nandini Thapar, Karan's sister
  • Mahesh Thakur as Bhaskar Saluja (Anjali's brother)
  • Navni Parihar as Anjali’s sister-in-law
  • Aman Verma as Mr. Manoj Saluja (Anjali's husband)
  • Dolly Bindra
  • Mike Razowzky as Raj Malhotra's friend
  • Kaneez Surka as Anjali's friend

Soundtrack

Dosti: Friends Forever
Feature film soundtrack
LabelShree Krishna Audio

This was the last album of musical duo

Nadeem-Shravan before they officially declared to split. The album was released in October 2005. The lyrics of all the songs were written by Sameer. The album was released in October 2005. The album was listed at 7th position in all-time music list of 2005 [citation needed]. According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 14,00,000 units sold the soundtrack became the eleventh highest-grossing album of the year.[6][7]

Track listing

No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Yeh Dosti"Udit Narayan & Sonu Nigam7:05
2."Dulhania"Kunal Ganjawala, Abhijeet Bhattacharya & Alka Yagnik5:26
3."Aisa Koi Zindagi Mein"Abhijeet Bhattacharya & Alka Yagnik5:13
4."Let's Boogie Woogie"Kunal Ganjawala, Vasundhara Das & Earl D'Souza5:45
5."Ishq Na Ishq Ho"Sukhwinder Singh & Kailash Kher8:03
6."Aur Tum Aaye"Sonu Nigam & Alka Yagnik5:20
7."Yaar Di Shaadi"Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik & Sarika Kapoor5:05

Home Media

Even after Dosti's box office failure, as he had with his previous works, Darshan refused to sell the film's television rights.

Zee Cinema on 23 September 2017, 12 years after its theatrical release.[9] The film's premier garnered high ratings for the network.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b "Dosti - Friends Forever - Movie - Box Office India". boxofficeindia.com.
  2. ^ "Dosti - Friends Forever". Hindustan Times. 31 December 2005.
  3. ^ "Dosti: Avoid forever!". www.rediff.com.
  4. ^ "Dosti Friends Forever - movie review by Ekanshu Khera - Planet Bollywood". planetbollywood.com.
  5. ^ Hungama, Bollywood. "Dosti – Friends Forever Review 2.5/5 | Dosti – Friends Forever Movie Review | Dosti – Friends Forever 2005 Public Review | Film Review". Bollywood Hungama.
  6. ^ "Music Hits 2000–2009 (Figures in Units)". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 15 February 2008.
  7. ^ "Dosti Friends Forever - music review by Manish Dhamija - Planet Bollywood". planetbollywood.com.
  8. ^ a b Bhattacharya, Roshmila (3 September 2010). "No satellite sale for Suneel Darshan". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 19 November 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  9. Zee Cinema
    .
  10. ^ Mehta, Paresh B (23 February 2018). "Good movies are Timeless Gems". Mid-Day. Archived from the original on 27 March 2020. Retrieved 16 March 2020 – via PressReader.

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