Gay Abandon, Chick scores!

Homosexuality has never looked so cool before- kudos to Karan, John and Abhishek for that! This one is no "Brokeback Mountain" or the very Indian "Mango Souffle" for that matter, but it does show homosexuality in a positive light in the middle of all those gags which is quite progressive for Bollywood!

Well, a male nurse (Abhishek Bachchan, his best performance in recent times) and a fashion photographer (John Abraham- women turning naughty and men going envious at the very sight of his lethal torso and almost every part of his well toned body) meet at Miami coincidentally. Both of them need a place to live and they land up with a Parsi middle- aged lady (Sushmita Mukherji on silver screen after a very long time). When she refuses to accept them as PG's in her niece's apartment (Priyanka Chopra looking absolutely delicious), the guys have to pretend as gays!

Things are fine till both the guys realize that they are slowly but surely falling for the sexy niece and things take a not so good turn when the girl in question falls for her sophisticated, rich, widower boss (suitably underplayed by Bobby Deol). The rest of the movie takes this rectangular love story forward and the best man wins in the end!

Dostana is not really a story driven movie. It is a film that has been made for the audiences to have a good time while watching it. So, you have John Abraham dropping off almost every piece of clothing (male sexuality sells and how); Shilpa Shetty (isn't she getting a tad too old for item numbers?) gyrating on the beaches of Miami; Priyanka Chopra roaming around wearing hot pants if not her golden swimsuit and Abhishek Bachchan walking around wrapped in cool clothes, coolers on his eyes and a cool smirk on his lips! win Boman Irani who does a Meryl Streep (Devil wears Prada) style entry and a loud and boisterous Kirron Kher- you pretty much have everything that Dostana boasts about.

Vishal- Sekhar, unfortunately are not in the best of form here and it is the song picturizations that work more than the songs themselves. Farah Khan's mindblowing choreography makes "Desi Girl" unforgettable; Manish Malhotra and Aki Narula provide the best of clothes to the lead cast(Abhishek's light shirts with matching dupattas are cases in point); Anayanka Bose does a great job with his lenses and Tarun Mansukhani proves that he is someone to look out for!

Dostana is extremely enjoyable as long as it lasts, which is very good for a mainstream Bollywood movie and it touches its highest point during the sequence of Abhishek and Priyanka at the amusement park running through the photographs- one of the most romantic scenes that I have seen in the last decade- Dostana is a must see at least for that one scene!