Dosti: Friends Forever

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Dosti: Friends Forever
Dosti.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Suneel Darshan
Written byK. K. Singh,
Rumi Jaffery (dialogues)
Screenplay by Robin Bhatt,
Shyam Goel
Story bySuneel Darshan
Produced bySuneel Darshan
Starring Bobby Deol
Akshay Kumar
Kareena Kapoor
Lara Dutta
Edited bySanjay Sankla
Music bySongs:
Nadeem-Shravan
Background Score:
Salim-Sulaiman
Distributed byShree Krishna International
Release date
  • 23 December 2005 (2005-12-23)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹150 million (US$1.8 million) [1]
Box office₹230 million (US$2.8 million) [1]

Dosti: Friends Forever is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film directed by Suneel Darshan starring Bobby Deol, Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor and Lara Dutta. Juhi Chawla makes a special appearance. [2] [3] [4] [5]

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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

Soundtrack

Dosti: Friends Forever
Soundtrack album by
Nadeem-Shravan
Released17 October 2005
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Label Shree 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 Nigam 7:05
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 Kher 8:03
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. [8] The collective value of his films' unsold satellite rights was estimated to be ₹150 crore. [8] Darshan finally sold the rights to his films to Zee in 2017, and Dosti premiered on Zee Cinema on 23 September 2017, 12 years after its theatrical release. [9] The film's premier garnered high ratings for the network. [10]

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