Dostana

“We had our differences in the past… but he will always be the Mahanayak,” Shatrughan Sinha on his Dostana with Amitabh

Shatrughan Sinha and Amitabh Bachchan worked together in Kaala Patthar, Dostana and Bombay To Goa.

Flashback: Karan Johar celebrates 42 years of Dharma Productions’ debut film Dostana

Making Dostana was not an easy task for Yash Johar. After serving as a production controller  with producer Sashadhar Mukherjee, Sunil Dutt and Dev Anand, Dostana was Yash Johar’s first production and he had signed three of the biggest stars of those times.

Akshay Kumar and Priyanka Chopra’s unreleased song from Barsaat finally out

Director Suneel Darshan was making the film with Akshay Kumar and Priyanka Chopra when the former had to leave the project midway. The filmmaker has now shared the title song that never came out.

The curious contradiction of male muscularity in queer movies, from Dostana to Badhaai Do

Shardul's obsession with his muscularity in Badhaai Do makes him possess the markers of heterosexuality and strength, but also contradicts that by giving him a sensitive personality, one without agency, one whose muscle is mere armoury.

2021 Queer Roundup: Unassuming gayness of ACP Khan in Aarya over laboured representation in Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui

My hope for queer storytelling as we step into a new year is to be more irreverent, to see more easy queerness, more desire, and more queer authorship as opposed to only queer characters.

Is Jeetu Bhaiya from Kota Factory queer? Notes on reading sexuality in narratives where it's not explicit

Anonymity in the form of subtle details is often afforded to queer characters, as they are to queer people in real life who do not want to talk about their sexuality.

Dostana 2 debutante Lakshya introduced as fourth talent of Karan Johar’s Dharma Cornerstone Agency

Laskshya is the newest addition to Dharma Corner Agency's talent roster, after Tripti Dimri, Guilty's Gurfateh Pirzada and Uri: The Surgical Strike actor Dhairya Karwa.

For Janhvi Kapoor, Pankaj Tripathi and Sharan Sharma, why the making of Gunjan Saxena felt personal

In a conversation with Firstpost on Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl, director Sharan Sharma, Janhvi Kapoor and Pankaj Tripathi open up about trials of telling a true story, the debate surrounding the trailer, and more

With Bhoot, Gunjan Saxena, Dostana 2 and Takht, Dharma Productions seems to be going through a revival

Dharma Productions has gotten a new lease of life with Karan Johar encouraging genres like horror, biopic, and historicals.

Rajkummar Rao opens up on refusing Dostana 2, and playing Dharmendra's role in Chupke Chupke remake

Rajkummar Rao says that the audience would be stunned by Janhvi Kapoor's performance in Roohi Afza