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IndiaFM News Bureau, April 2, 2007 - 16:11 IST
When you are young, you believe, the possibilities are
endless...
 What
does an eighteen year old guy in college really want?
Dil Dosti Etc is a fresh and unabashed look at how
young men of today think and choose to live their
lives. Dil Dosti Etc is set around students in Delhi
University. Through two university hostellers, Apurv (Imaad
Shah), a rich, cosmopolitan guy and, Sanjay Mishra (Shreyas
Talpade), an old-fashioned Bihari guy, the film
juxtaposes the ‘new/ liberal’ and the ‘old/
conservative’ in our society.
Sanjay is an ambitious and focused student-politician
in Delhi. He represents the romantic and the idealist
who steadfastly pursues his political goals. On the
other hand, Apurv’s life is directionless. With the
abundance of time and money in hand, he searches for
meaning in life through amorous escapades with various
girls.
The three female leads – that of a prostitute (Smriti
Mishra), a school girl and a rich model, provide a
myriad of social and emotional backdrops to the film.
Vaisali (Smriti Mishra) plays an attractive but
sharp-tongued prostitute. She claims never to get
emotionally attached to her customers. Then there is
the precocious school girl Kintu (Ishitta Sharrma),
who coquettishly remains noncommittal to Apurv’s
flirtations and plays hard to get. Prerna (Nikita
Anand) is the rich South Delhi babe who aspires to
become an international model, and yet finds herself
attracted to the earthy and charismatic
student-politician, Sanjay.
Dil Dosti Etc uses a rich ensemble of characters,
stories and themes to explore the very nature of
friendship, male bonding, voyeurism, sexual
perversion, love and betrayal. The film, based on an
original screenplay, is full with realism and black
humour and shows the coming of age of not only a young
man but also explores the ambiguities and
pre-occupations of an entire generation.
Dil Dosti Etc has been produced by Prakash Jha and
directed by Manish Tiwary.
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