DOSTI ZINDABAD | 22 November, 2019

Ashish Maheshwari and Shreya Cine Vision’s Dosti Zindabad (UA) is a story about true friendship.

Sunny, Ansh and Angad are good friends. They live in Delhi. Then they go to their respective home towns and get busy with their lives. The three meet once again after a year. They discuss their problems and, like true friends, help one another to solve them.

Sohail Akhtar seems to have written a script without feeling. If the story is dull, the screenplay is terribly weak. Both, the story and the screenplay, fail to involve the audience. Resultantly, the unfolding drama doesn’t touch the viewers at all. Even his dialogues are routine.

Dev Sharma is ordinary and so is Rahul Chaudhari. Sakshi Mago’s performance is so-so. Shakti Kapoor, Mohan Joshi, Ayub Khan, Kiran Kumar, Ehsaan Khan, Shraddha Sharma, Apurva Nain, Abbas Khan, Rajeev Nigam and Pappu Polyester lend fair support.

Partho Ghosh’s direction is average. His narrative style is not good enough to engage the audience. Music (by Sachin-Anand and Biswajit Bhattacharjee) is commonplace. Lyrics are routine. Jojo Khan’s choreography is hardly anything to shout about. Akram Khan’s camerawork is just about passable. Godawari Sabat’s sets are ordinary.

On the whole, Dosti Zindabad is a dull fare on friendship. It will fail to make any mark at the ticket windows.

Released on 22-11-’19 at Movie Time Goregaon (daily 1 show) and other cinemas of Bombay thru Big Curtains Media. Publicity & opening: poor. …….Also released in some other circuits.