Abhishek describes his pairing with John as the jodi of the moment. He says, “Other screen couples can go eat their hearts out”. His effeminate gestures in Dostana have raised eyebrows. There is talk that his father has not really liked Junior’s character or performance. Abhishek is aghast, “Why should he take offence? Not at all! The movie is not about homosexuality. Dostana is not Broke back Mountain. It was just a comedy. My entire family has throughly enjoyed it. Who does not enjoy a good laugh? It is a normal fun movie. Aishwarya is very happy that it is a big hit…my second big hit of the year after Sarkar Raj”.
Whom was he copying in Dostana? He reply, “Dostana was not made in haseen mazaaq. We had a lot of fun making the movie. But we were serious about the making of the movie. I worked very hard on the gestures and mannerisms. We in this country tend to take comedies very frivolously. Good locals, good songs…and that’s it. In Dostana, I had to work very hard to portray a straight man acting gay. It could easily have gone over board. I wanted to avoid making the character caricatural. Barring one portion (the flashback about how John met Abhishek) we kept in controlled”.
This was the toughest character for Abhishek to play. He reveals, “It was unfortunate that these kinds of movies are not taken seriously. It was not a character I could sleepwalk through. People think we partied hard while shooting Dostana in Miami. Wrong. We worked from early morning till night, worked out and crashed out”.
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