HEre I am, a member of this wonderful community, who was well and truly warned about K3G. But what do I do? Being a fan of the Big B, I dare to go to the movie halls to see this film. Regretted it all thro the 3 + hours.
Friends, I do agree with you. Of all the recent films , this has been the most horrible one. Seems like Karan Johar has gone truly bonkers.Would saying nuts be better or vaccuum head? He has spent 43 crores to make trash.
The movie they say is a hit. Beguiled by the star ratings given to this film, I guess people come to see the film, and are bombed. I guess no one wants to see it the second time. And considering our country's huge population, by the
time everybody's seen it, it will be a hit. Like me, there will be many who won't heed good advice, and suffer this at least once.
Many a times in the movie, I wondered whether or not Karan Slipped back in time to KKHH. More often than not, tunes of KKHH would filter thru. Then The names of the hero and heroine ( Rahul And Anjali...ah come on now), Parzan
dastur, playing a muslim boy, does a repeat of the star count - how drab.
And the film itself, most of the time was almost like watch a rerun - play - stop-rewind-play and so it went. Now Lets suffer thro the film.
We start of with Amitabh and Jaya talking something, and then we move to a cricket match, where Hrithik is taking on the last ball, needing 5 runs to victory.His brother's advice goes thru his mind ( and this is agonisingly
repeated 3 times in this film). I never saw such a clean and fresh cricketer. Not an inch of dust on his body, clean white shoes , he hits the ball for the six - thats the point we all should have applauded and left. But alas that was not to be.
So well, Hrithik finishes boarding school and is off to his home via haridwar, where he wants to visit his grand and great grandmothers. There he hears a tragic tale of how, Rahul (shahrukh) was an adopted son, and how he comes to
leave home. We are taken on a journey of tears, some smiles, more tears.
Rahul finds out when he is 8 that he is adopted,(tears..sniff) but then the family Raichand headed by Amitabh ( mohabattein shtyle) declare that they will
never mention the word adopted in the house again. Jaya loves him more than anything, so much so that years later on a diwali, amidst a lot of hungama, she senses the arrival of Rahul by helicopter, and moves with the aarti to the door. And he does arrive. And all are happy.
WE have the happy Raichand Clan, we have Rani Mukherjee in a friendly appearance, only to dance on Raichand Senior's birthday bash in a song Shava Shava ( all with a bevvy of English / American? women.) Geez!
And then we have Amitabh taking Shahrukh to his office and giving us a dose of Parampam pam..oops paramparra. Sickening that. And papa's boy vowing never to darken the family name.
MAybe the shava shava , happened after this..Yeah it did..Ofcourse it did..Before the Shava shava we are introduced to Kajol ( and this while the parampara dialogues were on).
Anyways, the young Scion Rahul, happens to see Anjali (how canny) dancing away in Chandini chowk ( which looks like some posh place somewhere in the US),and falls for her. HIs younger brother is plagued by a tomboyish gal ( Kajol's
sister - Pooja).And so starts Whatever...
And so after some misadventures, and some vague songs, we have this romance blossoming. Momma is told about this gal and loves it. But Parampara Papa wants his son to marry Rani. When Rahul tells Pompous pop of his love for
anjali, he is emotionally blackmailed into submission. So to please papa, he decides to sacrifice his love.
Makes his way to CC, only to encounter Kajol's dad's funeral..decides to get hitched, marries her, goes home..But Paramparra Papa, suddenly declares that
Rahul has proved that he could not have come from his lineage. More tears..we were in agony too. Whats happening? And Rahul leaves amidst more tears. Goes to the boarding school where his brother is (bids adieu to youger brother )
and does the vanishing act. End of story? Hah..
Younger brother Rohan ( Hrithik) vows to get the family back together. OFf to London for him on hearing that his bro and co are there. He tricks his father using the parampara bait to get there. Lands up at the college to woo Pooja oops Poo as she is known now. And does just that. MEanwhile Poo has decided that she is gonna wear less and less in the this film. A few jigs and a silly tongue twister, and Poo realises that Rohan is her child pal.
She decides to help Rohan complete his task. To do so , we go thro some tacky scenes, etc etc. Hrithiks nanny recognising him, when he is unable to tie his
laces ( she used to do it for him when he was a fat youngster), Kajol's son doing a national anthem at the school function (not just him, but the Pom kids
as well, and a standing ovation by the Poms to boot),, repeat dialogues, big bro recognises lil bro Hmmm.. so does he come home? Nah! so what gets him to India? his daadi's death. But does he go home? What happens next? If you r
still interested after all this, see the film, or forget it stay home and enjoy a good sleep.
And as if this was not all, we have Lata Mangeshkar grating our nerves time and again with ''Kabhi Khushi kabhi Ghummmmmmmmm. She was a fabulous singer, but now , her voice is ..chodo yaar.
Good performance by Amitabh,Hrithik.Kajol looked plump in most scenes.. Actually not much for performances, since most of the scenes where the tear jerkers.
The songs..hmm. For me the only reasonably hummable song was the Sonia song. The rest of the songs were extremely forgettable ( even when they were playing).
The sets by Sharmishta Roy though were fabulous.The costumes were rich too. But the story was what was missing.
Well, having said all that, when the film ended, and I looked all around me, I saw a lot of people in tears ( me inclusive) But all of them said, ye khushi ke aansoo hai - khushi isliye ki picture khatam ho gaya ( they are tears of happiness..because atlast the damn picture ended).
It should have been titled.Kabhi Khushi Kabhi numb ( thats what happens to your brains - and your bottom after sitting thro it)
