Vishal and Preity share a love-hate-love relationship, as they don’t seem too fond of each other in the college campus. And a running time of just over 90 minutes does help, especially in this ADD generation.
The dialogue and screenplay keeps the movie together. That’s the only backbone to the entire story of the movie. The only teaching staff that we ever see is Mita Vasisht, who puts the students on a project for preparation of 25th anniversary celebrations. Its not a canteen anymore, and there are no teachers! Students while away their time clinging on to their cellphones and hangout in the cafeteria. So, movies based on college life show everything but attending classes. Vishal, in his monologue towards the end, says that people become friends at the speed of mbps and break-ups happen at the flash of a logout. It shows us how youtube and FB has taken over the college lives and how fast and easy the communication has gotten. And the college cat fights are also entertaining. This of course leads to a lot of confusion, especially when they ask each other out on behalf of their friends, makes for a fun watch. Vishal and Preity get chatty and spend time online. But Preity accepts the request, behind her back. Malvika, of course, thinks that Rahul is being a little too desperate and does not want to entertain that fraaandship request. Since Malvika would never fall for someone like him, Vishal uses Rahul’s FB account to send Malvika a friend request. On the other side of the fence is Vishal who loved Malvika’s peppy nature and the way she flambouyantly stepped on the stage with Rahul and shook a leg. Preity is besotted with Rahul and loves the idea of falling in love with him, after the rock concert that she attends.
In 2011, Dosti mysteriously becomes Fraaandship! And believe me, there is no Punjabi character in the movie except for rockstar Rahul Sareen. So, that was Dosti in 2002 when orkut was not in yet or may have been in nascent stages. It takes about 2.5 hrs and a Uday Chopra to get the entire confusion sorted out. Raj falls in love with Tina, without knowing that it’s Pooja who should be receiving his attention. So, Pooja interacts with Raj, using Tina’s email id while Raj presumes its Tina who is showering him with love, care and concern. I shall spare you the details because I would rather hope that you watch and suffer as I did.Īnyways, the idea of a identity mismatch, especially due to human design and not technical glitch, is an old one. The movie was just for TRP (Tina, Raj & Pooja) and their silly banters. But damn! gobi ke parathe had more prominence than Hrithik Roshan. The movie had high production value, great starcast, not-so-bad story idea. Quite the opposite, the audience ran away from the theatres. About 9 years ago, in 2002, Yashraj released an out-dated romantic movie garbed as a youthful watch and titled it ‘Mujhse Dosti Karoge’! Of course, no one befriended the movie.
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