Dostana

Dostana (2008)

  • 100% of critics liked it
    (5 reviews)

  • 72% of users liked it
    (4,087 ratings)

Abhishek Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, and John Abraham star in this romantic comedy concerning a love triangle that's hopelessly complicated by a simple lie. Two men have fallen deeply in love with the same woman, but when they both pretend to be gay in order to rent an apartment and deal with… More

R, 2 hr. 25 min.
Directed By
Tarun Mansukhani
Written By
Tarun Mansukhani
Genres
Art House & International, Comedy
In Theaters
Nov 13, 2008 Wide
On DVD
Dec 30, 2008
Yash Raj Films

Critic Reviews

  • Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times

    By turns exuberant and goofy and mushy and yearning.

  • Maitland McDonagh, Miss FlickChick

    Cross I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry with the all-but forgotten 1970s farce The Gay Deceivers, then dress it up with elaborate musical sequences: Et voila!

  • Frank Lovece, Film Journal International

    Big, colorful, delightfully dumb Bollywood "gateway" movie could be a perfect crossover vehicle for U.S. audiences.

  • David Chute, L.A. Weekly

    A pure star vehicle, gliding along on charm and timing -- exactly the sort of comfort cinema Hollywood now seems incapable of making.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Dead A


    This was enjoyable. But some part was boring. Not bad though.

  • jay n


    Decent performances but some of the lengths that the two main characters go to really diminish the sympathy you feel towards them and it hurts the picture, The actress playing Sam's mother is a riot though.

  • meril l


    I don't generally watch Bollywood, but this was a lot of fun! Very amusing; you can't take it too seriously.

  • Leo L


    Here is a hilarious movie that centralizes around three roommates living in an upscale apartment in Miami. They are Sameer, Kunal, and Neha. The three become inseparable, and do just about everything together. Neha and her aunt search for female roommates to occupy the remaining two… More

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