A train takes Raj (Hrithik Roshan) away from the town of Simla to Delhi and from there to London, and so he leaves behind his childhood friends, Tina (Kareena Kapoor) and Pooja (Rani Mukherji). The film revolves around the familiar triangular relationship. Mujse Dosti Karoge’s representations of friendship are not much more complex, though – - as we shall see - an advance upon the notional idea of friendship in the Hindi film of a decade ago. Thus, in Maine Pyar Kiya, viewers were subjected to juvenile representations of friendship, with the heroine Suman (Bhagyashree) sporting a cap with the word “FRIEND” emblazoned on its front.

It has been a subject of the commercial Hindi cinema for several decades, but friendship began to be trivialized around a decade ago when the Hindi film, opening itself up to the reality of liberal sexual mores and the idea that a friendship not leading to sexual intimacy between men and women might well be not merely possible but even desirable, found itself unable to grapple with the theme of friendship with any degree of complexity. Hindi, 2002 155 minutes with Hrithik Roshan, Rani Mukherji, and Kareena Kapoor.įriendship has sometimes been described as the noblest of all human relationships, untainted, in its most idealistic moments, by considerations of blood, expediency, lust, indeed what might be called “history”.

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Jindal and America: A Marriage in Heaven.

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Diaspora Purana: The Indic Presence in World Culture.

Gulf Indians and the Hierarchies of NRIs.

From Masjid to Mandir: Across the Corentyne, Into Suriname.

Contemporary Electoral Politics in Trinidad.

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