I fail to understand how anyone can discard this as "awful" - that is, unless they hate Hindi cinema and/or family movies altogether. This is one of those endearing, feel-good films. It has nice outdoor sequences filmed in jungle area near Chennai and Hyderabad, Mithun lookin' good, beautiful romance scenes (as risqué as 1989 Bollywood lets them be), picturesque if unfeasible local tribes, comic presence by Asrani and Kader Khan (the latter acting as delirious as usual) - and superb acting from a trained monkey and a trained elephant who play Mithun's best friends. Too bad these two didn't receive star billing: they fully deserved it.
Review of Dost
