Dostana (1980 film)


Dostana is a 1980 Indian action-drama film, written by Salim-Javed, produced by Yash Johar, and directed by Raj Khosla. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Shatrughan Sinha, Zeenat Aman, Prem Chopra, Amrish Puri, Helen, Pran and Paintal. The film was a huge hit and the fourth highest-grosser of 1980, behind Qurbani , Asha and Ram Balram. Dostana was one of the last successful films directed by Raj Khosla. The film was remade in Tamil as Sattam, with Kamal Haasan.

Plot

Vijay and Ravi are best friends who do not question each other about their careers. Vijay is a police officer and Ravi is a lawyer. While Vijay catches criminals, Ravi bails those criminals out and is employed by Daaga. One day both Vijay and Ravi meet Sheetal at different places and times, and both fall in love with her. While Ravi's love is more vocal and is reciprocated by Sheetal, Vijay has one-sided crush on Sheetal.
Ravi admits his love for Sheetal to Vijay who is devastated but decides to sacrifice his love for Ravi's sake. However, there is a misunderstanding when Daaga decides to stir up Vijay and Ravi's friendship by showing Ravi a photo of Vijay and Sheetal. Vijay and Ravi become rivals for the first time. The rest of the movie looks at the conflict between Vijay and Daaga. After the misunderstanding, Ravi is on Daaga's side but later learns the truth and atones for his deeds.
Balwant Rai died of ankle sprain while jumping off the charter plane. Daga tried to shoot Vijay with a pocket gun and got shot in return instead.

Cast

In the film where Amitabh Bachchan beats Sajjan in the prison and after that, Sajjan was killed by another prisoner, the same scene was copied by Raj Khosla from his own directed film CID, where the same circumstances were faced by Dev Anand. Dostana's Producer was Yash Johar and later his son Karan Johar also producer made a movie same name Dostana starring Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham and Priyanka Chopra.

Soundtrack

The music for Dostana was composed by the duo Laxmikant-Pyarelal and the lyrics were written by Anand Bakshi.
SongSinger
"Mere Dost Kissa Yeh Kya Ho Gaya"Mohammad Rafi
"Salaamat Rahe Dostana Hamara" Mohammad Rafi, Kishore Kumar
"Salaamat Rahe Dostana Hamara" Mohammad Rafi, Kishore Kumar
"Bahut Khoobsurat Jawaan Ek Ladki"Kishore Kumar
"Dillagi Ne Di Hawaa"Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhosle
"Kitna Aasan Hai Kehna Bhool Jaao"Lata Mangeshkar

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