Dostana will help John’s Aashayein

John Abraham has gotten a little wary of offbeat movies after No Smoking did not exactly smoke the box office or convince some people to kick the habit. As a result, he is postponing the release of Nagesh Kukunoor’s movie Aashayein. The movie was originally supposed to release in July. John even sang a song from the movie at the Bandra Amphitheater in a bid to promote it. Aashayein is now slated for release on November 28th. This film supposedly has John’s best performance till date and he thinks it should really be marketed well.

The date of release now is just about two weeks after Dostana , John’s other release with Abhishek Bachchan and Priyanka Chopra. Rumour has it that the plot of Dostana has been picked up from Hollywood’s “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry” and remade with all the bling of Bollywood by Karan Johar.

Looks to me like John wants to use the buzz generated by the release of Dostana to help Aashayein get a better opening perhaps. Maybe getting a few more expressions on your walk-on-the-ramp face would help pull up the people to watch some of your more acting driven ventures than trying to piggyback them on your big banner multi-starrers.