Dec 23, 2001 07:46 AM
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(Updated Dec 23, 2001 07:52 AM)
It seems that Karan Johar , Aditya Chopra and Suraj Barjatya write their movies together! So what they do is take each other’s discarded scripts, and make a new movie out of them. Kabhie Kushi, Kabhi Gham is result of one such sitting I guess! Yeah, if you have seen HAHK, DDLJ, KKHH, and MOHOBATTEIN, its likely that you wont miss anything from this movie as well! Inspite of knowing all this, my Indian heart wanted to see this movie because of the constellation of stars in the movie. So herez the review of the movie as by me!
First half of the movie is total crap to say the least! So we have Hrithik who does a Amir Khan LAGAAN style six to win a match! And then thereafter he returns home to only find that his big brother has left house and gone somewhere. One wonders how throughout the ten years, Hrithik doesn’t even manage to get an idea as to what was going on. And then the flashback ten years earlier starts. We see AB as Yashvordhan Raichand, who apparently is still suffering a hangover from Mohobbatein and still croons over Parampara, Pratishta and Anushashan! And as usual, a rich boy falls in love with a poor girl-boy’s parents don’t agree-son marries the girl- and boy gets kicked out from house story follows..oh man! Such a bore really! So ShahRukh as Rahul who plays the elder adopted brother leaves home with his poor wife Kajol to London where he does something for a living which we never know of. More still we never come to know as to how he got so rich after being kicked out of his house!
So ten years hence, what does the younger brother do? Predictably, he decides to get his folks back home! So off he jumps to London on pretext of doing MBA to get his brother back. Obviously, Hrithik as Rohan didn’t come to London with only one reason. To complicate matters, we have Kajol’s sister Kareena who has become a bomb in her college…and yeah, u guessed it right…there she is, the heroine for our younger brother! So when our younger brother is not crying or thinking of getting his brother back, he is dancing around with Kareena. Most hilarious is the part where Hrithik just manages to recognize Kareena ten years later…just like that! Yeah…just like that! Any how, after much deliberation, crying and more crying, somehow, everyone comes face to face with each other in a shopping mall! There after, each character cries, cries and cries, until you cry yourself with them to stop it. The best part is the ending where the elder brother and the father go into a infinite loop of blaming each other for the circumstances in the house…the father endlessly blames the son for taking his word so seriously, and the son blames the father for not calling him…and the loop goes on for five minutes. And two minutes later, I was full of Khushi; NO! Not because the separated family reunited, but because the movie got over finally!!!!!!
I also got to witness one of the biggest bloopers in a movie ever! Amitabh sings Aati Kya Khandala ten years back in time in the flashback... and amused Rani Mukherjee looks on....when I thought that song came just 3 years ago!!!!!!! Kajol is shown desperate to make her son Indian, but one fails as to why she lets her sister become a proper Englishwoman!!!
The good parts
Shahrukh and Kajol are undoubtedly the best part of the movie. The chemistry between them is amazing….and they literally hold this movie together. The rest of the characters really had nothing much to do than cry around and then cry more. Though I must admit Jaya Bachchan as the mother gives a amazingly brilliant performance. She fits the role completely, and manages to convey the emotions of a troubled mother superbly. Rest of the cast was simply wasted. Johnny lever with his short cameo is again..superb! The comedy in the second half is enjoyable, though it does looked forced into the movie. The cinematography and the scenic shots are good and eye pleasing.
The bad parts
There are too many to list actually. Anyhow, you can make out the bad parts from my review itself. The film tends to follow a drag, tried and tested formula of Indian cinema and has nothing interesting to offer. All the stars in the movie seem to be on a modeling spree in the movie! Each one of them wears designer clothes, and its more like watching a fashions show at times. Kareena in minis looks ridiculously vulgar to say the least though I didn’t mind what she was desperately trying to show off! With one or two exceptions, the songs are hopeless and repetitive. Add to that, the repetitive theme song irritates throughout the movie.
So, finally when I wanted to rate this movie…I should have given this movie three stars. But why do I give this movie just 1 star? If there was a option of giving 0 stars, I would have used it too…and the reason for that doing that….Misplaced Patriotism displayed in the movie. In one of the scenes, in an annual day function, Kajol’s son has a dose of patriotism, and sings our national anthem jana gana mana to show how Indian he is…and Kajol responds with a hug, while ‘Vande Mataram’ goes on in background. How could that Basta*d Karan Johar do this? National Anthem is something sacred and important to all of us, and no one has rights to use it as liberally and easily as one wants too. It was such a pathetic display of patriotism on screen. Cleary, he wanted to jell with the NRI sentiments, but PLEAAAAASE, couldn’t it have been done some other way? Why the hell use our national anthem, and get a group of kids to sing it? The scene was ridiculously out of place…and its important that scene is deleted from the movie.
This was the part which really had me frustrated! I would have given this movie three stars, and even recommended this movie…but the sheer crap in that one scene makes me this movie look like a load of shit. Yeah, like my friend Koshish wrote ’DON’T TRUST OTHERS…GO WATCH THE MOVIE!’, I would rephrase it as ‘DON’T TRUST OTHERS……DONT WATCH THE MOVIE!’
Why doesn’t Karan Johar get banned from film making?
Happy viewing.
