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Film: Dostana
Director: Tarun Mansukhani
Starring: Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham, Priyanka Chopra, Bobby Deol
Rating: two stars
The India Today group reports -
He’s retrosexual and he’s metrosexual. One wears summer scarves even in Miami’s heat. The other can’t even keep his D&G underwear on. That’s Abhishek Bachchan and John Abraham respectively and they are the new queens of Bollywood.
All right, all right, don’t get too excited. It doesn’t mean that the movie is any good. It begins well. Very funnily, in fact, as Abhishek, playing a male nurse with a thing for short skirts, and John, as a fashion photographer with a thing for bikinis, meet cute and decide to play gay.
Priyanka Chopra plays a wealthy Sindhi girl who just happens to be a fashion magazine editor (what is it with all Dharma Productions women, do they have to work in fashion magazines). A comedy of errors ensues where Boman Irani plays a flaming gay man, who air kisses like a pro and holds out his paws like a Labrador in a Gucci coat.
Kirron Kher makes an appearance doing a welcome-the-dulhan number on John, asking him to observe karva chauth and handing him over the family kangans. So far so good though it is a bit disturbing to see what must be some deep dark private fantasy that director Tarun Mansukhani has (seeing John in a dulhan ka joda? Ugh).
The trouble begins when the Dharma gene kicks in. Cue the dhols and the chorus. The boys fall all moonily in love with Priyanka as does Bobby Deol (shorn of his ringlets you can actually see his face), who comes in as her boss.
Nice homes. Nice clothes. Nice boys. Movie, not particularly so.
What to watch out for:
1. Abhishek’s Quentin Tarantino-inspired spiel on how Gabbar Singh is gay (because he keeps saying kitne aadmi the) and how Munna and Circuit actually love each other.
2. Boman Irani looking at Abhishek and saying “yummy”.
3. Priyanka’s legs. Shilpa Shetty’s abs.
What to avoid:
1. The entire second half.
2. Taking the children. Please parents, heed the U/A certificate.
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Film: Dostana
Director: Tarun Mansukhani
Starring: Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham, Priyanka Chopra, Bobby Deol
Rating: two stars
The India Today group reports -
He’s retrosexual and he’s metrosexual. One wears summer scarves even in Miami’s heat. The other can’t even keep his D&G underwear on. That’s Abhishek Bachchan and John Abraham respectively and they are the new queens of Bollywood.
All right, all right, don’t get too excited. It doesn’t mean that the movie is any good. It begins well. Very funnily, in fact, as Abhishek, playing a male nurse with a thing for short skirts, and John, as a fashion photographer with a thing for bikinis, meet cute and decide to play gay.
Priyanka Chopra plays a wealthy Sindhi girl who just happens to be a fashion magazine editor (what is it with all Dharma Productions women, do they have to work in fashion magazines). A comedy of errors ensues where Boman Irani plays a flaming gay man, who air kisses like a pro and holds out his paws like a Labrador in a Gucci coat.
Kirron Kher makes an appearance doing a welcome-the-dulhan number on John, asking him to observe karva chauth and handing him over the family kangans. So far so good though it is a bit disturbing to see what must be some deep dark private fantasy that director Tarun Mansukhani has (seeing John in a dulhan ka joda? Ugh).
The trouble begins when the Dharma gene kicks in. Cue the dhols and the chorus. The boys fall all moonily in love with Priyanka as does Bobby Deol (shorn of his ringlets you can actually see his face), who comes in as her boss.
Nice homes. Nice clothes. Nice boys. Movie, not particularly so.
What to watch out for:
1. Abhishek’s Quentin Tarantino-inspired spiel on how Gabbar Singh is gay (because he keeps saying kitne aadmi the) and how Munna and Circuit actually love each other.
2. Boman Irani looking at Abhishek and saying “yummy”.
3. Priyanka’s legs. Shilpa Shetty’s abs.
What to avoid:
1. The entire second half.
2. Taking the children. Please parents, heed the U/A certificate.
Discuss
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