


He was threatened by an unknown criminal (apparently Daaga) to let a certain truck through without checking, but he refuses and tips the police off to the truck. One day, Tony tells Vijay his story: he was in charge of the checkpoints that check trucks.

Vijay and Ravi become rivals for the first time and Ravi takes Daaga's side in return for making Vijay's life hell. Daaga finds out about Vijay and Sheetal's relationship through a photograph and decides to stir up Vijay and Ravi's friendship by revealing Vijay and Sheetal's relationship to Ravi. He writes a letter to her saying that they have to give up their relationship for Ravi which accidentally reaches Ravi first, but he doesn't read it. Ravi admits his love for Sheetal to Vijay who is devastated but decides to sacrifice his love for Ravi's sake. Ravi has one-sided crush on Sheetal who only sees him as a friend. While Vijay’s love is more vocal and is reciprocated by Sheetal. One day both Vijay and Ravi meet Sheetal ( Zeenat Aman) at different places and times, and both fall in love with her. While Vijay catches criminals (with the help of an informant named Tony (Pran), Ravi bails those criminals out and is employed by Daaga ( Prem Chopra). Vijay is a police officer and Ravi is a lawyer. Vijay ( Amitabh Bachchan) and Ravi ( Shatrughan Sinha) are best friends who do not question each other about their careers. The film was remade in Tamil as Sattam with Kamal Haasan. Dostana was one of the last successful films directed by Raj Khosla. The film was a huge hit at the box-office and became the fourth highest-grosser of 1980, behind Qurbani, Asha and Ram Balram. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Shatrughan Sinha, Zeenat Aman in lead roles and Prem Chopra, Amrish Puri, Helen, Pran in supporting roles. Friendship) is a 1980 Indian Hindi action drama film, written by Salim–Javed, produced by Yash Johar, and directed by Raj Khosla.
