Bollywood dips its toe in gay well

Sigh, pant, swoon. John Abraham is hotter than a nuclear explosion on the sun! You can keep Tyrone Power. Really, why isn't Abraham a huge star all over the world? He's a pretty good actor and, to repeat, he's just hot as %@#K!

I think the woman in the first picture is actually a fan and not Priyanaka Chopra. If you look the caption on the site ( http://www.rediff.com/movies/2008/apr/01celeb.htm ) says

Reader Vijal Patel met Abhishek Bachchan and John Abraham  in Miami, Florida.

I did laugh a lot about all the praise about how daring John is to take a gay role when he really plays a guy pretending to be gay because of some girl related trouble. 

But, I'm definitely keeping my fingers crossed that the rumored plot of the movie is actually true, because John is just hot and while Bobby Deol isn't the best or the hottest actor, I have always had a soft spot for him and I'm very curious to see him tackle the role. It certainly is unlike anything else he has played. 

Besides, outside of arthouse movies the list of gay characters I have encountered in BW movies goes something like this: 

- Every comic relief character played by Bobby Darling

- The occasional attempted prison rape scenario

- Gay villain in the action movie Karam 

Interestingly Bollywood did a BW version of Philadelphia a few years ago but they changed the main character from a man to a woman to get around the gay angle. 

With any luck Dostana will do the same thing for this tired plot device that Soul Man did for white guys pretending to be black.

And he is like the Michael Douglas of Bollywood, his Dad is an institution, his mom is an actress and his wife Aishwarya Rai is "the most beautiful woman in the world." Still Abraham is far hotter.  I also lust for Hrithek Roshan and Akhay Kumar.  Look them up on youtube, you won't be sorry. The great thing about Bollywood is that all the action heroes also have to do elaborate production numbers and lipsycnc as well.  The movie could be about gangsters, rape, and incest, but it will still have at least five huge song and dance numbers and during one of those for some reason everyone will be so wet that their clothes are mostly transparent.  Can you imagine an American Leading Man that could do all that and still look hot and not ridiculous.  I'm holding out for Daniel Craig to go BW.

Nous Sommes Tous Sauvages.

I'm a huge fan of Bollywood movies.  Been watching them for years. And the men are incredibly hot who star in these movies. What's interesting is, although we have the all the povocative and sexy outfits and jestures throughout the movies, there is no kissing. They go in for the kiss and fade to black or turn their heads. Only a few Bollywood movies i've seen where the couple in love actually kissed. And nearly all of the movies are musicals with brilliant dance numbers, settings and outfits.

Abhishek Bacchan's father, Anitabh Bacchan is the God of the Bollywood movie industry.  He must have starred in more movies than any living actor on earth.

I'm with you HapNStance on the hotness who is Hrithik Roshan, sixth finger and all. But my favorite is Shah Rukh Khan. He may not be the hottest looking Indian actor, but he has a sex appeal about him which is incredible.

A number of years ago there was a small, and what I would consider independant Bollywood movie, which was released called 'Fire' I think it's presently playing on LOGO, about two women who fall in love. I heard when that movie was released it almost caused riots. So producers have to tread cautiously. Now, I did read that a number of Bollywood producers would love to do a movie about homosexuality and coming out, but fear of public reaction and even getting actors to play the part of two men in love would not be easy. An anonymous big Bollywood actor did say he would have no problem taking on a gay role, but he worries about how it would affect his future roles in movies. And he's not alone. Some have said they are up to playing gay, but again...fear of what it would do to their careers.

 

He can pretend to be gay, and we can pretend we watched his film. :P

BTW, IMHO, he'd be way hotter if he were gay in real life.

I forgot to mention, my favorite part about BW is naturally the man dancing. 

So, any excuse to provide some examples: 

Bobby Deol (the one who is supposed to be the "real gay"): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I22SOMotDNI (Bobby is the less attractive one one with the white shirt)

John Abrahams: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYu87URcsg4

Priyanka (featuring some hilarious summer man dancing): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjdCYxbRxqM

Abhishek http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvF1YyBEARI

the trailer for dostana is out..you can see it on youtube..

But em..it shows that john and abhishek are together..or pretending to be?..but tht doesnt make much sense..does it?

Am really verry happy by waching dostana movie john and abhishek nice acting on that i love it john acting hope we'll meet one day and talk about it ummmmmmmm

hello, first time poster here. I am of indian descent so have practically lived on bollywood since forever. So i was very sceptical when i heard about this movie, since John Abraham and Abhishek Bachchan are actually two of the biggest stars in bollywood right now, and I didn't think that Indian cinema, or even indian culture had evolved to the point where a leading man could fall for another man in such a mainstream (as opposed to arthouse) movie. so, i was NOT surprised, but very moved to say something when I saw the movie. I think there is a difference between playing gay, and playing someone pretending to be gay, and that's basically what this  story is about. They play two straight men who pretend to be in a relationship in order to flat with the lead actress, who is single and doesn't want to flat with single guys. when she does meet someone she likes, the two guys try and ruin her new relatioship because they both have fallen in love with her. eventually they confess that they are straight, and she kicks them out, but as in all indian movies, in the end she forgives them and gets back with the 3rd guy. it is essentially a comedy, so there are are lot of gay jokes. When one of the guys makes up a story of how they supposedly met and fell in love, it is full of stereotypes - limp hands, sailor suits. one of the guys' mother can't decide whether to call his partner her son-in-law or her daughter-in-law. You could say its done as tongue in cheek, but I personally felt it was treading a fine line between funny and something else (offensive?). I guess the fact that gay is not a man in loud makeup playing the leading man's 5th best friend as it usually happens could be seen as a step forward? Being such a huge bollywood devotee, I understand that things are not going to change overnight. A lot of people loved the movie, and its on its way to being a success. I would love to hear some other thoughts after everyones seen it.