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Dostana 2008 Movie
This is a story about two guys Sameer (Abhishek Bachchan) who is a nurse and Kunal (John Abraham), a photographer. They bump into each other while looking for an apartment to rent and coincidentally head towards the same apartment. However, they are both thrown out because the owner wants to rent the apartment to girls only, since her niece, Neha (Priyanka Chopra) stays in that apartment alone. Sameer gets an idea that if Kunal and he pretend to be gay lovers, then the owner will agree to let them stay. Kunal initially refuses, but agrees out of desperation. Their plan works and they move in. Over a period of time Neha, Kunal and Sameer become good friends, hanging out together and having fun.
The three of them go to the immigrations office to register for residence permit and Neha gives them the idea that if they apply as a homosexual couple they can get residence permit in a year, which otherwise might take 5 to 6 years. Sameer refuses but Kunal manages to convince him and they apply as a gay couple. Sameer later realizes that he mistakenly gave his London address (where his mother stays, and where he previously used to stay) as his home address. His mother (Kirron Kher) receives a letter from the immigrations office and comes to know of her son’s sexuality. One day Neha’s boss ‘M’, short for Murli (Boman Irani) announces that he is resigning his job as the editor-in-chief of Verve magazine and is in charge of replacing himself. In order to impress her boss (who is also gay) and bag the job, Neha invites him for dinner at her house. M agrees when he learns that she lives with two gay single men. As M arrives, Kunal is reluctant to act gay in front of him, so Sameer gets cosy with M. But meanwhile, a gay immigrations officer come for a surprise visit stating that some people fake their sexuality for a faster residence permit. Kunal and Sameer immediately tense up and end up dancing and acting out in front of them. At the same time Sameer’s mother comes home and faints to see her son like this. Later, she cries and screams and is unable to accept her son’s identity. Sameer, tries to tell her the truth but can’t with everybody around. Later at Neha’s office M announces Abhimanyu Singh (Bobby Deol) as the next editor-in-chief. Neha is heartbroken and comes home crying. Sameer’s mother consoles her and says that everything happens for the good. Neha then convinces her to accept Kunal and Sameer’s relationship. The next day, his mother welcomes Kunal with an ‘Aarti ki Thali’ a.k.a Kabhie Khushi Kabhie Gham. She blesses them and leaves asking them to take care of Neha as she was upset. Kunal, Sameer and Neha together work out a difficult project she was given by her boss and Neha becomes a hit at her office. Abhimanyu appoints her as the co-editor-in-chief of Verve.
Meanwhile,in Kunal’s absence Sameer takes out Neha to an amusement park as a surprise and they share an intimate time. Later, at a mall Sameer tries to tell Neha he loves her and that he’s not gay through a trial room door, but turns out Kunal was behind that door and heard everything he said. He becomes angry with Sameer and states that he also loves her. As they try to figure out what to do Kunal says that as tomorrow’s Neha’s birthday they should go out to this new cool place he knows, but actually sends him to a male strip bar while he and Neha enjoy an intimate dinner and movie at a park. Sameer comes to know of this and furiously hits Kunal and a fight breaks out which Neha ends. The next day, Abhimanyu asks Neha out to an event and asks her to bring her two friends along. As the trio are dancing to the tunes of ‘Desi Girl’, Abhimanyu enters and sweeps Neha away. Then Kunal and Sameer decide to first eliminate him together. They try telling him to do exact opposite of things that Neha likes and almost ruin their relationship when the truth comes out. Neha thinks that they are doing this as they do not love each other anymore and are falling for Abhimanyu. She states that Abhi is straight and prefers her which the guys happily accept. Seeing that things are not working out, they set their sights on Abhimanyu’s 5-year old son Veer. They show him a tape of (Taare Zameen Par) and convince him that once his dad marries Neha they are going to send him away to a boarding school and that his step mother was going to be very mean and vicious. The next day, Anhimanyu, Neha and Veer go out to a basketball game together to which Kunal and Sameer are also invited. Neha comes to know that Abhi is going to propose to her at half time and asks Kunal and Sameer what she should do as she is not even thinking about marriage yet. Both of them ask her not marry him and reveal that they aren’t gay and are in love with her. Meanwhile Veer tells Abhimanyu of his fears and cries saying that he doesn’t want him to marry Neha. As Neha tearfully turns away from Kunal and Sameer, Abhimanyu hugs her and tells her that they can’t be together as Veer isn’t comfortable with that. Kunal and Sameer see them hugging and presume them to be engaged. Neha comes home and asks the guys to leave the house.
Later, Kunal and Sameer go to the immigration office to get their residence permit and realize that they miss Neha, so they go to get her at an office party that she is attending. They try explaining to her but she refuses to listen and Abhimanyu enters. Kunal asks when they are going to get married and Neha tells him that they broke up because Veer wasn’t comfortable with her. They both tell them the truth and Abhimanyu and Neha furiously try to leave the place. But the guys stop them and get on to the stage and tell the crowd their story and ask them tell Neha to grant forgiveness. The crowd edges them to do stuff like get on the knees and beg to Neha, when one of them asks them to kiss each other . The guys adamantly refuse to do it when Abhimanyu says that since they are very fond of being gay, it is the only way they can be forgiven. Kunal refuses to do it but Sameer convinces him and tries to kiss him but at the end moment he cant do it. As Kunal sees Neha and Abhimanyu starting to leave he forcibly kisses Sameer and Abhimanyu tells Neha that those guys were really her best friends to do this as even he couldn’t have done it, even for her. Neha goes to them and they make up. After two months Neha, Kunal and Sameer are sitting on a bench and Neha asks them if anytime during their act of being gay, they ever felt anything towards each other. They vehemently deny it and Neha leaves apologizing. Sameer and Kunal look at each other and remember their kiss. They, then, part their ways.
