Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna by Karan Johar : Review
Posted by JV on August 14, 2006
Beat me if you want to but I cant stop comparing.
The subject which Karan Johar deals with is serious and delicate. Extra martial affairs of married perons. It is quite clear that this not new or bold approach. Silsila (1981), which co-incidently stars Amitabh, also deal with somewhat same subject. Closer (2004) seems source of inspiration to KANK. Well, there is nothing wrong in inspiration.
It is definate, for most of rural Indians this movie will come as great shock. The movie tells the story about affair between two persons, who are unsatisfied and unhappy in marriage relations with their respective partners.
The story is interesting enough and watchable. You can call it five stars, may not for the rating purpose, but for the casting todays biggest stars of Bollywood. Presence of these stars prevails heavily over the sotry line and story becomes of secondary importance, which is large drawback.
Further, the movie is little less gripping, blanks and gaps leave you wondering.For example, at a crucial moment , when Abhishek and Priety Zinta meet and discuss problems about their partners and decide to call them for forgiveness . Unfortuantely cell of Shahrukh and Rani were engaged, so voicemail messages were left. However, these messages were never seemed to be recovered, at least I did not notice anywhere. I eagerly waited and wished that the messages were listned to but it never happend.
The message conveyed by the movie is somewhat clear, if a person is not happy with a relation s/he should quit the relation. One can argue either way, after all morality is subjective, so it is left to everybody’s own discreation weather movie deals with
the subject properly or not.
But the treatment of the movie is of my main concern. The movie could have been made more thoughtful with deeper pentration in personal feelings. It is not that movies are made purely for entertainment and again it is not that Indian viewers do not accept serious stuff. BLACK is latest example of taste of Indian viewers.
In the movie you can hardly found a painful soul. Sharukh finds difficult to appear as frustrated man in a relation. Pritey acts natually as a career oriented woman, who claims to wear pant in the house. Abhishek, a party organiser and night creature expects warmath and affection from his wife. Rani disappoints as a characteer who is disappointed in every walk of life , primarily for her incapacity to bear child. Amitabh,casanova father of Abhishek is good as he gets , but entirely unnecssary fo the story.
I am not bollywood trade pundit, but I can predict that this movie will earn sufficient to be claimed as a superhit. But that is not criteria of a memorable film and certainly this movie does not fall in such category.
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Some good and intesting reviews :
* full2faltu
* hirenshah
* mypyp
raj said
u r a fuckall film maker u dont have the value of film making ur ideas are fuck all u dont have the story n screen play sence u have a v bad taste ur films nothing but the large screen version of balaji tele films u have v bad choice of seeing films like NAME SAKE was a fuck all film u have specialy screened that film in india for d celebrities u choothiya being a film maker u have no clue that it is extract version of kamalhassan THEVAR MAGAN . the amount that u spent on ur film is totally waste if u give that budget to this south indian film makers [tamil/malayalam]they can make atleast 10 fantastic film s with that budget. pls do watch good films
Anonymous said
you guys are just upset because this is what goes on in the real world.. and you didn’t expect it just because it’s an indian moviee
ursala said
hi ,
iyo u look so ugly and ur acting is not suits on ur character
Lalita said
I really like the movie and SRKis the best actor ever!
JV said
Shireen , then why the title “Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna”? Never say good bye to your partner or your lover?
I would not call them traitor even, they loved someone else then their partner and left the partner, but even again movie fails miserably to explain the traitor’s move.
and remember.. it really just my experience of the movie…
Shireen said
….
it’s being criticized as a justification for the “traitors’” love ..
but ..
isn’t this story just trying to explain from their point of view? …….
remember .. at the end of the day ..
it’s really just their experience ..
JV said
Btdt, thanks for the first hand expereince. You summed up well.
Sabbasi, I agree with you. Extravagant budged could easily do this, but again that is not the point
sabbasi said
Horrible moral of a story. I’m sorry. However it was filmed nicely.
btdt said
Well, having been there recently, except that I was in Priety’s shoes and “Rani” was a trusted and very close friend and her ex-my ex ( now her current…confusing isn’t it:)) were close frinds too, and with three childrenn’s emotinal well being compromised( two of mine, one of hers), I find KANK quite immature. The child, who happens to be the worst victim of selfish adult decisions, was not even touched on!!! And to top it all, the film ended on a note of almost justifying the betrayers’ action. Well, folks, it ain’t that simple, the fall ain’t that soft.