| Dosti: Friends Forever | |
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Theatrical release poster |
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| Directed by | Suneel Dharshan |
| Produced by | Suneel Dharshan |
| Screenplay by | Robin Bhatt Rumi Jaffery K K Singh Shyam Goel |
| Story by | Suneel Dharshan |
| Starring | Akshay Kumar Bobby Deol Kareena Kapoor Lara Dutta Juhi Chawla |
| Music by | Nadeem-Shravan |
| Cinematography | W B Rao |
| Editing by | Sanjay Sankla |
| Distributed by | Shree Krishna International |
| Release date(s) | December 23, 2005 |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Dosti: Friends Forever (Hindi: दोस्ती, Urdu: دوستی, translation: friendship) is a 2005 Hindi romance film directed by Suneel Darshan starring Akshay Kumar and Bobby Deol in the lead roles. It also stars Lara Dutta, Kareena Kapoor and Juhi Chawla in supporting roles.
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Karan Thapar (Bobby Deol) lives a wealthy yet very lonesome lifestyle with his businessman dad (Kiran Kumar), mom Kiran (Lillete Dubey), and sister Nandini, 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), who is 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 who shun and dislike Raj.
Years later Raj and Karan have matured; Raj is in love with his childhood sweetheart, Anjali (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), successfully woos and gets her to agree to marry him. Raj's and Karan's weddings are planned for the same day.
Things take a turn for the worse: Leena and her dad, who is employed by Thapar, expose the friends as flirts. Consequently, Anjali's brother cancels the wedding and gets her married to someone else. Raj is later shown suffering from a fatal disease; while his doctor, Dr. Aditi (Juhi Chawla), tries to save him, with treatment sponsored by Karan, Raj dies. Karan eventually gets married to Kajal, and the couple name their child after Raj.
The music was composed by Nadeem-Shravan, and the lyrics were penned by Sameer.
| No. | Title | Singer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Aisa Koi Zindagi Mein" | Abhijeet, Alka Yagnik | 5:13 |
| 2. | "Aur Tum Aaye" | Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik | 5:19 |
| 3. | "Dulhania" | Kunal Ganjawala, Abhijeet, Alka Yagnik | 5:26 |
| 4. | "Ishq Na Ishq Ho" | Sukhwinder Singh, Kailash Kher | 8:03 |
| 5. | "Let's Boogie Woogie" | Kunal Ganjawala, Vasundhara Das | 5:45 |
| 6. | "Yaar Di Shaadi" | Sonu Nigam, Abhijeet, Alka Yagnik, Sarika Kapoor | 5:05 |
| 7. | "Yeh Dosti" | Udit Narayan, Sonu Nigam | 7:05 |
In India, the film did below average business. But in the UK, the film was a blockbuster. It turned out to be the highest grosser of Hindi films in 2005 in the UK, grossing around £888,000. In the US it did superb as well grossing over 1.5 million dollars.
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