Dosti: Friends Forever

Dosti: Friends Forever is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film directed by Suneel Darshan starring Bobby Deol, Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor and Lara Dutta. Juhi Chawla makes a special appearance.^[2][3][4]

Dosti: Friends Forever
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Suneel Darshan
Written by	K. K. Singh, Rumi Jaffery (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Robin Bhatt, Shyam Goel
Story by	Suneel Darshan
Produced by	Suneel Darshan
Starring	Bobby Deol Akshay Kumar Kareena Kapoor Lara Dutta
Edited by	Sanjay Sankla
Music by	Songs: Nadeem-Shravan Background Score: Salim-Sulaiman
Distributed by	Shree Krishna International
Release date	23 December 2005 (2005-12-23)
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹150 million[1]
Box office	₹230 million[1]

Plot

Karan Thapar lives a wealthy yet very lonesome lifestyle with his business tycoon father Vikram Thapar, mother Kiran Thapar, and sister Nandini Thapar, 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, 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 members who dislike Raj.

Years later, Raj and Karan have grown up; Raj is in love with his childhood sweetheart Anjali Saluja and wants to marry her, while Karan flirts with Leena Bharucha and abandons her. Karan subsequently meets with London-returned Kajal Sharma and woos her. She agrees to marry him. Raj's and Karan's weddings are planned for the same day. Things take a turn for the worse when Leena and her dad, who is employed by Thapar, characterize the friends as flirts. Consequently, Kajal breaks up with Karan, and Anjali's brother cancels her wedding with Raj.

It is later revealed that Raj is in the hospital and is suffering from a fatal disorder. Dr. Aditi Mathur is his doctor, and she is trying to save Raj’s life and Karan arrives there and hugs Raj in tears. Raj dies 2 years later, and Karan eventually marries Kajal. Karan and Kajal name their child after Raj, hence fulfilling the promise of the bond of friendship.

Cast

• Bobby Deol as Karan Thapar, Raj's best friend, Vikram and Kiran's son, Nandini's brother and Kajal's love interest
• Akshay Kumar as Raj Malhotra, Karan's best friend and Anjali's love interest, (fatal disorder patient)
• Kareena Kapoor as Anjali Saluja, Raj's love interest, (Manoj's wife)
• Lara Dutta as Kajal Sharma Thapar, Karan's love interest
• Lillete Dubey as Kiran Thapar, Karan and Nandini's mother
• Juhi Chawla as Dr. Aditi Mathur (special appearance)
• Kiran Kumar as Vikram Thapar, Karan and Nandini's father
• Sherlyn Chopra as Leena Bharucha
• Shakti Kapoor as Mr. Varun Bharucha (Leena's father)
• Karishma Tanna as Nandini Thapar, Karan's sister
• Mahesh Thakur as Bhaskar Saluja (Anjali's brother)
• Navni Parihar as Anjali’s sister-in-law
• Aman Verma as Mr. Manoj Saluja (Anjali's husband)
• Dolly Bindra
• Mike Razowzky as Raj Malhotra's friend
• Kaneez Surka as Anjali's friend

Soundtrack

Dosti: Friends Forever
Soundtrack album by Nadeem-Shravan
Released	17 October 2005
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Label	Shree Krishna Audio

This was the last album of musical duo Nadeem-Shravan before they officially declared to split. The album was released in October 2005. The lyrics of all the songs were written by Sameer. The album was released in October 2005. The album was listed at 7th position in all-time music list of 2005 ^{[citation needed]}. According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 14,00,000 units sold the soundtrack became the eleventh highest-grossing album of the year.^[5]

Track listing

No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Yeh Dosti"	Udit Narayan & Sonu Nigam	7:05
2.	"Dulhania"	Kunal Ganjawala, Abhijeet Bhattacharya & Alka Yagnik	5:26
3.	"Aisa Koi Zindagi Mein"	Abhijeet Bhattacharya & Alka Yagnik	5:13
4.	"Let's Boogie Woogie"	Kunal Ganjawala, Vasundhara Das & Earl D'Souza	5:45
5.	"Ishq Na Ishq Ho"	Sukhwinder Singh & Kailash Kher	8:03
6.	"Aur Tum Aaye"	Sonu Nigam & Alka Yagnik	5:20
7.	"Yaar Di Shaadi"	Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik & Sarika Kapoor	5:05

Home media

The collective value of his films' unsold satellite rights was estimated to be ₹150 crore.^[6] Darshan finally sold the rights to his films to Zee in 2017, and Dosti premiered on Zee Cinema on 23 September 2017, 12 years after its theatrical release. The film's premier garnered high ratings for the network.^[7]