Kirron Kher opens up about 'Dostana' 9 years after the film's release
| Nov 14, 2017, 16:39 IST
Nine years ago the audience was in for a pleasant surprise when actors John Abraham and Abhishek Bachchan came together to play the roles of a pretentious gay couple in the film 'Dostana'. The film touted to be the first of its kind in Bollywood, showed two men pretending to be gay to share an apartment with a girl (a character played by Priyanka Chopra) and both end up falling for her. Actress Kirron Kher who played Abhishek's mom in the film recently spoke about the film with a leading entertainment media portal.
“Since I knew Priyanka, John and Abhishek, it was like working within the family. Though I don’t think it was the first time a film showed gay people, the beauty of it was the mother’s acceptance of it. And that, I think, was new in Indian cinema and it made the film so interesting,” she said.
She spoke about a particular dialogue she still remembers from the film, and said, “The funniest part was when I said my dialogue ‘jeete raho… phoolo phalo’, Tarun, our director, suddenly came to me and said ‘khair chhodo, yeh to ho nahi sakta’ (anyway, it can’t happen, so, leave it). So, that ‘Khair chhodo’ was something that wasn’t in the script and was added pronto. And it literally brought the house down in the theatre and even on set when we shot the scene.”
She further revealed, “In the sequel, my character goes on to join politics and is running something of her own and had turned into a gay rights activist. So, it was quite interesting that way. Let’s see if that happens in future, as nothing has come up in all these years, so I can’t say.”
Well, we certainly would love it if the makers did come up with a sequel. Stay tuned for more updates.
Credits: Hindustan Times
“Since I knew Priyanka, John and Abhishek, it was like working within the family. Though I don’t think it was the first time a film showed gay people, the beauty of it was the mother’s acceptance of it. And that, I think, was new in Indian cinema and it made the film so interesting,” she said.
She spoke about a particular dialogue she still remembers from the film, and said, “The funniest part was when I said my dialogue ‘jeete raho… phoolo phalo’, Tarun, our director, suddenly came to me and said ‘khair chhodo, yeh to ho nahi sakta’ (anyway, it can’t happen, so, leave it). So, that ‘Khair chhodo’ was something that wasn’t in the script and was added pronto. And it literally brought the house down in the theatre and even on set when we shot the scene.”
She further revealed, “In the sequel, my character goes on to join politics and is running something of her own and had turned into a gay rights activist. So, it was quite interesting that way. Let’s see if that happens in future, as nothing has come up in all these years, so I can’t say.”
Well, we certainly would love it if the makers did come up with a sequel. Stay tuned for more updates.
Credits: Hindustan Times