Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998)

• Year: 1998
• Released: 16 Oct 1998
• Country: India
• Adwords: 36 wins & 8 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172684/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kuch_kuch_hota_hai
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: Hindi
• MPA Rating: Not Rated
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
• Runtime: 177 min
• Writer: Karan Johar
• Director: Karan Johar
• Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Rani Mukerji
• Keywords: love, falling in love, childhood friends, soulmates, unhappiness,

	7.6/10
	92% – Audience

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai Storyline

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, is the story of Rahul and Anjali. Both of them students at St. Xavier’s College. Anjali being a tomboy gets along very well with Rahul and the other boys. Rahul and Anjali are also the best of friends. Being so close to each other, Rahul and Anjali would probably have fallen in love, however they were too busy enjoying themselves being best buddies! And then Tina (Ranee Mukherjee) the Principal’s daughter came into their lives. For Anjali, Tina was a third member of their gang, however, for Rahul, his life was never the same after meeting her. He fell in love with Tina. Anjali was finally beginning to fall in love with Rahul, and when she finally does manage to sum up the courage to tell Rahul about her feelings, Rahul tells her in his usual friendly manner, that he is falling in love with Tina. Totally oblivious to him, he broke her heart. Broken hearted Anjali decides to leave the college mid-term making up an excuse. It is at this point that Tina’s suspicions come true.

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Heartwarming entertainment

Karan Johar’s directorial debut Kuch Kuch Hota Hai is one of those films you can always watch and enjoy with your family and friends. In spite of being a bit of a fairy tale, it works very well within its limitations. It is one of those beautiful Hindi romantic comedies that actually form the unique cultural and artistic style of Bollywood’s most famous mainstream flicks. This is an enjoyable and charming picture which can make you laugh, cry, at times even cringe with annoyance, but then it will keep you consistently entertained.

The film introduces Johar’s famous statement that the first step towards love is friendship and does it in a slightly cheesy yet rather convincing way. The film is a poignant story of two friends, a guy and a girl, who understand they actually love each other perhaps too late. And that’s how it goes on. It flows well, with wonderfully composed songs, nicely written characters, several clichés here and there, many comic sequences, some melodramatic ones as well, but more importantly, a lot of Bollywood-style colour and fun.

Shahrukh Khan and Kajol work with electrifying chemistry. Their scenes together are pure magic. Both give crafted performances. Kajol is more impressive as the cool tomboy who transforms into a womanly, attractive and sensitive Anjali. She displays the pain, joy, happiness and confusion that her character goes through with great conviction. Shahrukh is fantastic as the young, cool guy, friend and boyfriend and later on as a loving and caring father who has lost his wife and suffers her loss.

Rani Mukherjee is beautiful and vibrant and makes for a very effective intelligent and dreamy girl. This is not an accomplished but very sincere performance which deserves full praise. Salman Khan is very good and surprisingly enough, manages to impress even in a brief, seemingly insignificant appearance. It may be because his character makes a great impact on the film’s story and on the viewer.

I really liked the film’s music, the title song being my favourite, and among other songs, the melancholic “Tujhe Yaad Na Meri Aayee” is very beautiful. Towards the end, there are some overly melodramatic sequences but they flow well enough to bring the long-awaited ending. Kuch Kuch Hota Hai is overall great entertainment and a must-watch for lovers of Hindi cinema and its films. It is compelling, moving and memorable, and is always fun to revisit. I recommend.

While the story idea is great….the writing is, at times, a serious letdown.

The story begins sadly. Rahul’s beloved wife, Tina, has given birth and dies soon thereafter*. But before dying, she writes a series of letters to be given to her daughter one at a time over the next 8 years. Anjali loves reading the letters and now that she is 8, she’s about to receive her final letter from her deceased mother. In this letter, Anjali learns that before Tina, Rahul had a relationship with another woman…also called Anjali. But Rahul was pretty dense and didn’t realize Anjali loved him so much and instead he fell for Tina and married. Now, through the letters, Tina is trying to enlist the help of her daughter to reunite Rahul with this Anjali from long ago, as Tina thinks they’d make a great couple and Anjali would make a great mother to young Anjali. There is just one problem…and I won’t say more as I don’t want to spoil the film.

While not all Indian movies are love stories filled with singing, these are the most popular films in the country and we do get a lot of them exported here in the States. I generally like them but also realize that there is a certain sameness about them…a sameness accepted and embraced in India but a sameness not as likely to be adored abroad. In many ways this reminds me of romance novels. The readers realize there are clichés (I do NOT mean this in a negative way) and accept them as part of the genre…but to those who don’t read romance, they might be rather critical of these plot devices.

I mention all this because “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai” had many of these story elements….which will no doubt be accepted by lovers of the genre but which will not sit so well with others. It’s a shame, as the first portion of the film is very good and engaged me. The next, the long flashback to college days, was one plot device after another after another…like they were shoving every Bollywood cliché into it. As a result, the college portion clearly was not the best part of the movie. Shah Rukh Khan was 33 but played a goofy 20 year-old…and he played him rather broadly. While this was far-fetched, his being so clueless about the girl who loves him is embarrassingly bad. So is much of his behavior…so much so that it’s easy not to like him…or you might even hate him. This is a sharp contrast to the beginning of the film when SRK breaks your heart…and it made the college portion of the movie seem trivial.

So is it worth sticking with the film and slogging through the college portion? Well, the main story line is quite good and definitely pulls at your heart…so have a few Kleenex nearby just in case. I suggest watching it but perhaps getting a snack or long bathroom break during the college section. And, for that matter, you take a break pretty much any time the camp counselor appears…he is very poorly written and more a distraction than anything else. In contrast, every time Salmon Khan appeared in the film, the movie lit up…he was magnificent as ‘the other man’….and I was pulling for Anjali to get him in the end of the picture! Overall, a good film that could have been better. Worth seeing…but very uneven.

*FYI–I have never seen a woman dying who looked this healthy and beautiful in all my years watching films!

My childhood…

My childhood.

In Azerbaijan a lot of people like Indian movies, according to i watched when i was child, it was great.