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Dostana (1980 film)

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'Dostana' is a 1980 Indian Hindi action drama film, written by SalimJaved, produced by Yash Johar, and directed by Raj Khosla. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Shatrughan Sinha, Zeenat Aman in lead roles and Prem Chopra, Amrish Puri, Helen, Pran in supporting roles. The film was a huge hit at the box-office and became 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 (Amitabh Bachchan) and Ravi (Shatrughan Sinha) 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 (with the help of an informant named Tony (Pran (actor))), Ravi bails those criminals out and is employed by Daaga (Prem Chopra). One day both Vijay and Ravi meet Sheetal (Zeenat Aman) at different places and times, and both fall in love with her. While Vijays love is more vocal and is reciprocated by Sheetal. Ravi has one-sided crush on Sheetal who only sees him as a friend.

Ravi admits his love for Sheetal to Vijay who is devastated but decides to sacrifice his love for Ravi's sake. He writes a letter to her saying that they have to give up their relationship for Ravi which accidentally reaches Ravi first, but he doesn't read it. Daaga finds out about Vijay and Sheetal's relationship through a photograph and decides to stir up Vijay and Ravi's friendship by revealing Vijay and Sheetal's relationship to Ravi. Vijay and Ravi become rivals for the first time and Ravi takes Daaga's side in return for making Vijay's life hell. One day, Tony tells Vijay his story: he was in charge of the checkpoints that check trucks. He was threatened by an unknown criminal (apparently Daaga) to let a certain truck through without checking, but he refuses and tips the police off to the truck. In retaliation, Daaga sends a truck to run over him and his family, killing his wife and disabling his son Johnny in the legs. Later, Daaga frames Vijay for killing a criminal he was interrogating for info on Daaga. Ravi defends him on the condition that Sheetal sleeps with him for one night. On the night, he finds and reads the letter that Vijay wrote to Sheetal and repents and rekindles his friendship with Vijay.

Just then, Daaga captures them. Vijay comes to the rescue, but is also captured. Daaga's moll Sylvia (Helen (actress)), who is really a spy, and Tony's wife's sister, that gives Tony his info, saves them. Daaga fatally shots Tony, who dies in Vijay's arms with the final wish that Vijay takes care of Johnny, and escapes with Balwant Singh in a plane, but is forced to land by Ravi and Vijay, who are using a jeep and helicopter. Balwant Singh was shot by Daaga because he couldn't run due to ankle sprain while jumping off the charter plane. Daaga attempts to escape , but is caught by Vijay. He tried to shoot Vijay with a pocket gun and got shot dead in return by Vijay instead.

Cast



*Amitabh Bachchan as CID Inspector Vijay Verma

*Shatrughan Sinha as Advocate Ravi Kapoor

*Zeenat Aman as Sheetal Sahni

*Prem Chopra as Daaga

*Amrish Puri as Balwant Singh

*Helen as Sylvia

*Pran as Tony

*Gajanan Jagirdar as High School Principal

*Sajjan as Ramniklal Tiwari

*Trilok Kapoor as Police Commissioner

*Iftekhar as Prosecuting Lawyer

*K. N. Singh as Judge

*Paintal as Eve-Teaser

*Jagdish Raj as Driver (Daaga's Man)

*Sharat Saxena as Photographer (Daaga's Man)

*Mohan Sherry as Daaga's Man

*Keshav Rana as Daaga's Man

*Mac Mohan as Daaga's Man

*Sudhir as Inspector Shinde

*Goga Kapoor as Baldev Singh

*Yunus Parvez as Gold Smuggler

*Vikas Anand as Dr. Karamchandani

*Ruby Mayer as Nun

*Sudha Chopra as Teresa

*Master Rajesh Valecha as Johny

*Raj Kumar Kapoor as Mr. Sahni

In a scene from the film, Amitabh Bachchan beats Sajjan in the prison, who is later killed by another prisoner. This scene was lifted by Raj Khosla from his previous directorial 'C.I.D.' (1956), where the same circumstances were faced by Dev Anand.

Coincidentally, Karan Johar, the son of the film's producer Yash Johar, also went on to produce a film of the same name starring Abhishek Bachchan (Amitabh Bachchan's son), John Abraham and Priyanka Chopra.

Soundtrack



The music for 'Dostana' was composed by the duo LaxmikantPyarelal and the lyrics were written by Anand Bakshi.

Awards



; 28th Filmfare Awards:

'Nominated'

* Best Actor Amitabh Bachchan

* Best Actor Shatrughan Sinha

* Best Lyricist Anand Bakshi for "Salamat Rahe Dostana Humara"

* Best Male Playback Singer Mohammed Rafi for "Mere Dost Kissa Yeh Kya Ho Gaya"

References




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