{"id":11318,"date":"2008-11-06T16:31:08","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T16:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/11\/06\/dostana\/"},"modified":"2008-11-06T16:31:08","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T16:31:08","slug":"dostana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/06\/dostana\/","title":{"rendered":"Dostana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Bollywood Film Reviews with Manish Gajjar<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"211\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"233\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/Dostana_232x180.jpg\"\/>Directed by: Tarun Manshukhani<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong>Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham, Priyanka Chopra<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Born and bred in London and now in his early thirties, Sameer (Abhishek Bachchan) works in Miami as a male nurse at St. Steve\u2019s Hospital.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Sameer is a goofy kind of guy, who has the ability to charm his way into anybody\u2019s life. He is the man with a plan which he seldom thinks through their consequences.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Kunal (John Abraham) is a guy in his early thirties. Tall, suave, confident and good looking, Kunal has this brooding quality which drives girls totally crazy. And he takes full advantage of that!<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He\u2019s a responsible and organised fashion photographer whose life is in order except for his residence permit, as he is an illegal immigrant.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Neha Melwani (Priyanka Chopra) is a 27 year old, contemporary Indian woman. Smart, gorgeous and stylish, Neha works for a fashion magazine called Verve.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Even though she is career minded, Neha longs to settle down and have a family. A highly respectful individual, Neha\u2019s innocence sometimes lands her into trouble. But for now, it\u2019s all happening in the Beach Party Capitol of the world &#8211; Miami.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Sameer (Abhishek Bachchan) and Kunal (John Abraham) have recently been turned down for an apartment. This is because the landlady doesn&#8217;t want two strapping young men to corrupt her young sexy niece Neha (Priyanka Chopra).<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>So these boys go onto plan &#8216;G&#8217; &#8211; they pretend to be gay to secure the apartment. All is well till they meet the sexy siren Neha and so begins a journey of fun, frolic and a test of friendship like never before.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>When Neha&#8217;s boss Abhimanyu (Bobby Deol) enters the scene as the third contender for her affections, life takes a twist for the worse in this romantic comedy.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Tarun Mansukhani makes his directorial debut with Dostana. He has a wealth of cinematic experience having been an assistant for Karan Johar in the past.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The film also features our very own Big Brother winner, Shilpa Shetty. She makes a guest appearance in a song and dance sequence bound to go down well with UK audiences.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Releasing by Yash Raj Films, Dostana is eagerly awaited this November in UK cinemas.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bollywood Film Reviews with Manish Gajjar Directed by: Tarun Manshukhani &#13; Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham, Priyanka Chopra &#13; \u00a0 &#13; Born and bred in London and now in his early thirties, Sameer (Abhishek Bachchan) works in Miami as a male nurse at St. Steve\u2019s Hospital. &#13; Sameer is a goofy kind of guy, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}