A.Ranga Rao, Srinath Productions:
DOSTI DUSHMANI, Release Date: 23rd October 1986, Producer & Director: T.Rama Rao.
Note: Film is Remake of Telugu movie MUGGURU MITRULU of Shobhan Babu, Murali Mohan & Chandra Mohan.
Review: Dr.Sandeep Kumar (Jeetendra), Inspector Ranjith (Rajinikanth) & Advocate Prakash (Rishi Kapoor) are thickest, best & childhood friends, they three of them grown up together because Prakash is often and Ranjith’s father Daga (Amrish Puri) is a smuggler who left him alone because of his honesty and took his mother & sister with him so Sandeep’s parents (Pran & Shavukar Janaki) brought them up. Ranjith is a honest police officer, Sandeep is a well known doctor in the city but only problem with him is he is very short temper, he cannot withstand if somebody does injustice to anyone, Prakash is a leading public prosecutor three of them has always clash with Daga who became a big gangster and doesn’t know that Ranjith is his son. Ranjith & Prakash always carrels with Sandeep because of his short temper behavior. One day Daga’s gangster (Guru Bachan) kidnaps and rapes Ranjith’s wife Lata (Poonam Dhillon) who is pregnant which is seen by Sandeep he bits him very hard and takes promise from Lata that she does not reveal this secret Daga takes advantage of this he kills the gangster and traps Sandeep in the case. Ranjith arrests Sandeep and Prakash takes up the case but Sandeep doesn’t reveal the truth to protect Lata so Prakash makes a story that Sandeep has made the crime to protect his wife to save him, he brings a girl Rekha (Bhanu Priya) as Sandeep’s wife whom Sandeep has protected from few gangsters. Meanwhile Sandeep loves and really marries Rekha and Prakash also loves a thief Shanthi (Kimi Katkar) whose father is killed by Daga and for whom she is under search. At the end Ranjith comes know the truth, he accepts Lata even though she got raped and he recognizes Daga is his father and Rekha is his sister whom Daga left in streets in the childhood. Finally Sandeep, Ranjith & Prakash joins together sees end of Daga.