I can't see another actress doing this part as well.Īll in all, Dostana is a decent one. The fact that we know the truth only makes it funnier. Her loud and hysterical mother is just hilarious, and her transformation from a desperate mother to someone who learns to accept her son's 'identity' is brilliant. Kirron Kher utterly steals the show with her brief appearance. She's not a great actress, but she's competent in a role which is not very demanding but pivotal. Hottie Priyanka Chopra plays their friend and a struggling career woman. Abhishek performs better and he's more effective in comic sequences. John does not lose any chance to take his shirt off and get cocky, which really gets on one's nerves. It's still fun, maybe because it's new for a Hindi film, and maybe because the jokes work and it's amusing to see the leading actors in such situations.Ībhishek Bachchan and John Abraham get equal footage, and they are okay. The various jokes in the film do manage do work though some of them are unoriginal and we are already familiar with them thanks to our film experience. The film is stylish and modern, but it certainly doesn't have the refreshing quality of films like Salaam Namaste and Hum Tum. The westernised music matches the light mood of the film. The cinematography is well done, the locations are fantastic. The direction is pretty good, not that anything great is required there to begin with. This is not a bad thing, that's Johar's style and it has clearly worked for him in previous attempts, but while I found myself laughing from time to time, I was also quite annoyed by some of the cheesy proceedings. The film, in contrast to Johar's previous films where all starts as a great comedy but ends up in a tearful melodrama, remains a comedy almost from start to end, though different clichés from time to time are inevitable and easy to predict.

He combines comedy, drama and emotions in one film, though in this case there's more balance, though it leans more on the comedy. Karan Johar comes up with another film that is very identified with his own style of film-making, Dostana. Reviewed by Peter_Young 6 / 10 Stereotypical and clichéd, but ocassionally entertaining.

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