Dostana

This is one of Amitabh's classic top movie. Pran and Zeenat were exceptionally brilliant actors on screen. The dialogue by Jared Akhtar must be noted. The music composer Laxmikant did a great job composing some great music. Helen and other actors were also brilliant. A perfect movie to watch.

One of the best performance by Bachan and sinha . Loved their acting , songs were the best part of the movie . Zeenat as good as well .

Review By Kamal K

Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan) is a Police Office and befriend with Ravi (Shatrughan Sinha) who is a lawyer and employed by Daaga (Prem Chopra) a white collar criminal. On one hand Vijay arrests criminals and Ravi managed to get them Bail. But their professional differences never come in the way of their personal life and their friendship remains profound.

Ravi and Vijay meet Sheetal (Zeenat Aman) at difference places. Both falls in love with Sheetal who reciprocated to the love of Vijay and love of Ravi remained one sided. Soon Vijay comes to know about love interest of Ravi and decides to sacrifice his love for him. But problem ensues when Daaga make a conspiracy and Ravi becomes the biggest enemy of Ravi.

Zeenat Aman was at the peak of her career at that time and she has completed the glamour quota alongwith some good acting too. Pran, Prem Chopra and Helen have also done exceedingly well.

Dostana also features some well-choreographed action sequences by Veeru Devgan.

Laxmikant Pyarelaal have composed good songs for the movie. The lyrics of Anand Bakshi are quite touching. It's a formula-based Bollywood movie with guaranteed entertainment presented by Raj Khosla. If you want wholesome entertainment for more than two and a half hours, please don't miss it.

This movie is a classic entertainer , with great star cast ... good music ... great direction..and great performances by all the cast . It is one of the best movies of Amitabh Bachan who is well supported by the other cast... Shatrughan Sinha and Zeenat Aman were superb and brilliant. An all time great Entertainer .

Dostana review :

Legendary director Raj Khosla's last box office success; Dostana had superstar Amitabh Bachchan and Shotgun (Shatrughan) Sinha vying for love and affection of the gorgeous Zeenat Aman. It was a staple Salim Javed script packed with all the masala ingredients of action, romance, emotions and dialogues. Having said that, I consider this to be one of their underwhelming effort as there were no punchlines or thrills as expected from the star writer-duo. Nevertheless, they got paid more than superstar Bachchan.

Vijay (Amitabh) and Ravi (Shotgun) are childhood buddies who become warring foes over the pretty Sheetal (Zeenat). Vijay is a cop while Ravi is the defence lawyer. Later, Vijay is accused of a murder and Ravi demands a night with Sheetal as his remuneration to bail him out.

Dostana took a good three years to complete mainly due to the untimely demise of its cinematographer Nariman Irani in 1978. Bachchan and Sinha's offscreen rivalry was much talked about in the media and that actually helped the movie to take a fantastic opening at the box office. Amrish Puri played a supporting baddie to the main villain Prem Chopra who is instrumental in creating rift between the two heroes. Pran was reliably effective as the police informer Tony who has his own past to tell...this character bears resemblance to his Michael from Amitabh Bachchan's Majboor (1974) - another Salim Javed script.

Dostana was the first production of Yash Johar who made many memorable films after this like Duniya (1984), Agneepath (1990) and Gumrah (1993) before his son Karan took over the mantle with Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998)... and made Dharma a top production house of Bollywood. Interestingly, Karan produced another Dostana in 2008 starring Amitabh's son Abhishek and John Abraham. The namesake movie was a gay comedy and had nothing to do with this Raj Khosla original.

Regards, Sumeet Nadkarni.