Amitabh Bachchan's 'Dostana': Interesting trivia about the 1980 film

Amitabh Bachchan's Dostana garnered much praise from critics and masses in its time. film directed by Raj Khosla centered around lives of two best friends, Vijay and Ravi, who fall in love with same girl, Sheetal. Misunderstandings due to ir respective careers and people around m le m to become rivals. Dostana, with an IMDb rating of 6.7 stars Amitabh Bachchan, Shatrughan Sinha, Zeenat Aman in pivotal roles. Listed below are some of lesser-kwn facts about Amitabh Bachchan's 1980 film Dostana.

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Lesser-kwn facts about Amitabh Bachchan's Dostana

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• Yash Johar wanted Vijay Anand to direct film, but latter at time was busy with films Rajput and Ram Balram.
• Actor Vid Khanna was considered for Shatrughan Sinha's role. But director Raj Khosla believed that if Vid played role, Zeenat refusing him would t be unbelievable.
• At success party of film Dostana, Yash Johar h launched a film titled John Jaani Janardhan and Manmohan Desai as director of film, but film was sly shelved inste Yash Johar later me Duniya with Dilip Kumar and Ramesh Talwar as director, under banner of Dharma Productions.
• Actor Zeenat Aman played sole heroine with two competing heroes in 3 movies in 1980. She played a role in Dostana with Amit & Shatru, Qurbani with Vid Khanna and Feroz, and Bombay 405 miles with Shatru & Vid Khanna.

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• mahurat clap was given in  year 1977 by I.S.Johar, who was Yash Johar"s bror and Karan Johar"s uncle.
• In year 1956 C.I.D was Raj Khosla"s first successful film and 24 years later Dostana was Raj Khosla"s last successful film. Incidentally, both films were produced by Navketan"s Associates Guru Dutt & Yash Johar, both were Dev Anand"s friends.
• One of films' veteran actresses was Ruby Meyers who played role of a nun in this film.
• Actor Prem Chopra played main role of villain whereas actor Amrish Puri played one of Prem Chopra "s henchmen. Puri at that time h a small mir role and was kwn face much. Later after 2 years, Amrish Puri became big villain.
• As film was delayed and was furr getting delayed to shoot climax, makers decided to take all artists and crew to London to shoot final climax.