Dostana: If an apology from Karan Johar is on the table, when will we receive it? | Bollywood News
Filmmaker Karan Johar has been on a spectacular apology tour for his past work in recent months. He has admitted in several interviews that he often misunderstands gender politics in his own films, especially Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, in which the protagonist shows no signs of toxicity. It was said (correctly) that it shows. Mr. Dzhokhar made his case right in his latest release. Rocky Orr Rani Ki Prem Kahani In this endearingly clunky film, he tackled pressing social issues with warmth and vulnerability. However, in this creative revision, he never expresses her regret for Dostana. Even though the film was considered a watershed moment for Hindi cinema in 2008, it has stale like a forgotten condiment on the bottom shelf of a refrigerator. As a side note, get rid of them.
An unofficial remake of Adam Sandler’s globally acclaimed comedy ‘I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry’, Dostana tells the story of two straight men named Sameer (Abhishek Bachchan) and Kunal. Masu.john abraham), people who pretend to be gay to facilitate their residency process in the United States. They break into Neha’s house (priyanka chopra) and begin living as a same-sex couple in her house. During this farce, Sameer and Kunal both fall in love with Neha. Neha remains oblivious to everything until her literal truth is told to her in an unintentionally hilarious climax.
Dostana, directed by the man who would go on to helm Drive (but not that movie), celebrates its 15th anniversary this week. Having recently experienced this uniquely torturous form of storytelling, I’m not sure why a film that feels so dated is Milk, the Oscar-winning biopic of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk. It’s hard to imagine that it could have been released in the same year as “”.
Only in Bollywood can a film so openly abhorrent to homosexuality be hailed as a harbinger of progressive ideas. Dostana seems completely uninterested in the actual discrimination faced by the LGBTQIA+ community. Instead, you see them as weirdos. The idea of two straight men exploiting a minority community for their own (material) gain is enough to make me angry, but they’re not the underdogs in this story, and their It is not expressed as such. No; Sameer and Kunal are both disgustingly privileged and suitably lecherous. The film often employs their gaze in early scenes, when the camera stares at Chopra’s body with shiver-inducing sleaze.
Neha mainly has the attitude you do about homosexuality throughout the movie, but in one scene she declares that she doesn’t mind living with Sameer and Kunal because it’s about them.choiceBeing gay. She says this, ironically, in a scene meant to emphasize her progressiveness. But Neha has to be one of the stupidest characters in the history of Hindi cinema. Not only is she completely unaware that she is being taken for a ride, she also allows her suitor Abhi, played by Sir Bobby himself, to be fooled by Sameer and Kunal.
In a particularly nonsensical twist in the film’s fourth act, they literally traumatize Neha and Abhi’s five-year-old child and begin sabotaging Neha and Abhi’s relationship. They also give Abhi terrible advice on how to convince Neha, which he blindly follows even though it’s obvious it won’t work. Still, Neha continues to stay with Abhi who continues to act like a fool and Sameer and Kunal continue to be terrible people.
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But guys, what’s the game plan here? They have no clue and neither does the movie. What will happen if they succeed in ending Neha’s relationship? Are they going to share her within her ranks? Did they bother to ask her what she wanted?Sameer and Kunal simply assume that even Neha will not be able to resist. rear They come clean, and that should tell you everything you need to know about the level of depravity we’re dealing with, the level of depravity that Dostana plays for laughs.
There isn’t a single queer character in the entire movie, unless you count Boman Irani’s walking, talking bag of stereotypes. In fact, director Tarun Mansukhani makes his own views on homosexuality clear in a chilling flashback scene about Sameer and Kunal’s fabricated romance and in the film’s dramatic climax. The fact that he got caught doesn’t really mean that. they confess. Sameer and Kunal apologize to Neha and Abhi for what they did. After refusing their apologies several times, Abhi comes up with a condition. If he wants to be forgiven, he has to kiss her in public. Let’s understand that.
Abhi gives this challenge as if he were Rohit Shetty in Khatron Ke Khiladi, instructing the participants to chug cow dung juice or something. This is the level of disgust that both the film and its protagonist have towards a simple kiss between people of the same sex. Sameer tries to do it, but backs out at the last moment, literally rebelling against the idea. Dostana ends only as Dostana can, with a non-consensual kiss that everyone sees as the most heartfelt moment that Hindi cinema has ever dreamed of, both in front of and behind the camera. And to think that Karan was planning to make a spiritual sequel to this film.Retreating from there was probably the most heroic thing to do kartik aryan What he has accomplished in his career.
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