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Nov 18th, 2008, 23:45
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| Maha Guru Member  Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: India
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| what's so gay about 'dostana'? i have not seen the film - only seen news items about it being the first mainstream bollywood film with the male leads possibly playing gay characters! this is too shocking for words for me - having grown up on a steady diet of hindi films where the only depiction of gay men (never saw lesbians) was negative. has anyone seen it? could it be true? where i live there are no cinemas so there's no way i'll be seeing it in any hurry.  |
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Nov 19th, 2008, 00:36
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Nov 19th, 2008, 00:52
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| thanks, crvlvr. now i know they are pretending to be gay in the film. it's a start. |
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Nov 19th, 2008, 08:39
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| mad for mithai!  Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: New York, NY
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| Hi - If you're interested Raj And Pablo of the BBC's asian network did an interesting review: http://www.bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork/lovebollywood/ It sounds like an interesting film - I usually agree with Raj & Pablo's review. I've seen way too many stinkers this year, so I'm gonna give this one a shot (hopefully) this weekend. Cheers! -C |
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Nov 22nd, 2008, 01:23
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| Here's the thing....  Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: The City of Angels
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 | My friend told me it was pretty good, so I might just give this one a try myself. Haven't seen a hindi movie in almost 3 months now.
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Nov 23rd, 2008, 13:06
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| forgive me but arnt all actors pretending to be somthing they are not |
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Nov 23rd, 2008, 14:45
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Nov 24th, 2008, 07:54
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| not pretending  but I do have a very high fever  les |
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Nov 24th, 2008, 11:01
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| i just love tweety bird, hope it's not avian flu...  |
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Nov 29th, 2008, 10:09
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| I watched it yesterday; it had its funny moments, but it wasn't "omg you must see this" good. |
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Nov 30th, 2008, 17:02
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| Hello  Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Greece
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| and apparently gays are not some kind of monsters  They are human beings as the rest of us,so do not be afraid of gays
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Jan 8th, 2009, 23:29
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| it's far from being a great movie but it has a few good jokes & it is a big thing for india where homosexuality is illegal, i think it's easier for the 'general public' to get used to & accept certain different lifestyles if they learn about them through mainstream movies and tv the best part of the movie to me was when one of the 'fake' gay's conservative mum decides to accept his boyfriend & asks him to fast on karva chauth for the long life of her son  |
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Jan 9th, 2009, 02:43
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| this is Brad. He's cute  Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Armidale, N.S.W., Australia
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" I'm not gay. I just help out when they're busy" I think it should be compulsory.
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Jan 10th, 2009, 18:53
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| Hello Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Greece
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| I tried to watch it 2 days ago and the film is pretty silly!!!!!!!!The only beautiful thing of the film is John Abraham and his sexy butt I stopped watching it after 15 minutes.Quite silly!! |
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Jan 11th, 2009, 10:59
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| this is Brad. He's cute Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Armidale, N.S.W., Australia
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| He's not bad eh? Can't do those sort of films anymore. When will they learn that being gay isn't that interesting, it's just what we are? |
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