(The development of the love between Shah Rukh's Rahul and Kajol's Anjali, which occupied most of the running time of DILWALE DULHANIYA LE JAENGE and KUCH KUCH HOTA HAI, takes mere seconds here.) Yash had a classier, business-minded match in mind for Rahul: Naina (Rani Mukherjee, left with little to do in the film) but Rahul chooses love over duty in order to marry Anjali, accepting banishment from the Raichand family and mother India.Īll of this comes as news (in the form of a long flashback) to the adult Rohan (Hrithik Roshan), igniting his quest to reunite his broken family.
The family is a model of love and respect until Rahul falls in love with Anjali (Kajol), a perky and comically clumsy Punjabi girl from Delhi's Chandni Chowk, whose younger sister Pooja is Rohan's classmate. A flashback reveals that the childless couple adopted a son, Rahul (Shah Rukh Khan), but were surprised when Rohan was born a few years later, placing Rahul in the tricky position of being the "eldest" but not the "natural" child of his parents.
“Yash,” played by Amitabh Bachchan) and his wife Nandini (Jaya Bachchan). The film, through emphatically "big," treats a fairly narrow topic: the internal dynamics of the ostentatiously rich Raichand family, headed by Yashovardhan (a.k.a. Inevitably, the film doesn't live up to the hype - could any film? - but this one seems an especially notable letdown: the storyline is rather simple and blatantly illogical at times, and the lavish sets and use of showy locations never serve much purpose most of the songs aren't very memorable, and seem inserted rather then integrated, reinforcing a claim that is too often brought against Hindi films (unfairly in many cases - e.g., 2001's other big hit LAGAAN, which works to carefully combine song and story). Meanwhile, K3G broke records throughout India, supported by a massive marketing campaign that included CDs and cassettes as well as a fancy gift book on its making. A minor scandal was created when the film should have appeared within the top-10 box office in the United States on Variety's lists for late 2001, but was omitted because the editors apparently couldn't believe that an "unknown" film was doing "house full" business in American theatres (albeit those catering to Indo-American audiences) the film did appear high up on the U.K.
Strange to say, KABHI KHUSHI KABHIE GHAM… - compressed as K3G by the press even before it was released - may now be the most successful Indian film ever made, at least in terms of initial revenue returns. Patriarchy has not yet, to my knowledge, made the Endangered Species list, but Karan Johar seems to feel that it needs shoring up with this massive, opulent, yet oddly hollow film. Music: Jatin Lalit, Sandesh Shandilya, and Aadesh Shrivastav Cinematography: Kiran Deohans ("Sometimes happiness, sometimes sorrow")
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