Contrary to popular claims, I believe, Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna was a typical Karan Johar film. It was not bad but was would not be counted in the league of the best movies in the history of Bollywood.
For those of you who haven’t caught the film, this is a gist of the plot: Dev Saran (Shah Rukh Khan) and Rhea Saran (Priety Zinta) are married for 5 years. Rishi (Abhishiek Bachchan) and Maya (Rani Mukherjee) are also wed after a comtemplating for three years.
Both marriages turn out to be a failure because Dev and Maya are (I think) fools who do not recognize the love that their partners give them. They find "love" in each other and decide after much deliberation to break up with their respective spouses. In the end, they 'live happily together'.
The film has a few good performances and a few very good ones. Notably, Junior B (notwithstanding the immense fascination I have for him) has given a fantastic performance. The treatment of a few scenes is also commendable. And since Johar works with big budgets, the locations are also mind blowing. Given a chance, this is the Album I would love to own. It has awesome sound tracks.
But I think the film is all about the concept of marriage and love. It is this that I want to delve into. I would like to point out a few discrepancies and contradictions in the concept the film deals with.
First: The moot question is, why do you love a person? I feel, for his/ her qualities, ethics, attitude, habits and to whatever extent, looks. Then this concept of love-has-no-reasons is ridiculous. Why would anybody who has as good a husband as Rishi, want to find love elsewhere especially in a person who is eternally irritated and frustrated with everything under the sun? The film talks about love having no logic. Any thing illogical is beyond my comprehension.
Second: Rhea is a sensible, hard-working, rational person. Then why did she marry an annoying being such as Dev in the first place? (The film says that it is how Dev had always been, not that he had become irritable because of ups and downs in his married life.)
Third: (Sexy) Sam, who loves his late wife dearly, is seen with every other teenager in New York City. This is also contradictory to the claim that love is eternal.
Fourth: There is a scene when Maya says that physical relationship with a person is not as important as sharing one’s woes and happiness. Then why does she not keep her relationship with Dev to just sharing her ‘joys and sorrows’?
It is here that there is the master of contradictions: Both Dev and Maya knew that they were in love with each other and not their respective spouses. Then why were they jealous of each other’s independent sex life? Intellectual compatibility was present was the most important thing. So, is loving a person all about a physical relationship? If not, why do they make it sound like one?
Bottom line: if you have nothing to do on a Saturday afternoon, this is not a bad film to watch.
On a lighter note, I’d say that Rishi is the Perfect Husband. What do you say?
Raksha Kumar
7 comments:
I take my hat off to you for simply sitting through the entire movie. In my world, the movie is strong enough to kill Volde...oops You-Know-Who and Snape!
:P
Well well, I agree. Love is stupidity!
Hey, adi, it was not all that bad, considering there was some change form the usual hindi film formula.
Thanks Mojindro for reading the blog. well, many people have told me that it is slightly mudled up. I'll try and edit it.
Equilibrium, we seem to agree on most things.
Ah, It was pretty boring ya...
I just liked the costumes and the songs...The storyline was pathetic...
i agree with the contradictions as shayoni....
I will say its not abt love being physical or sharing woes and happiness....love's abt ....
Finding this one person whom u can trust and respect and someone u wud want to explore everything life has to offer be it happiness or joys of physical intimacy....;)
The movie does make you think doesn't it?
I too got thinkin and wrote a post like this.
Must say apart from the utterly ridiculous character of Sam I don't think I agree with you all that much.
I think it's quite possible the way dev and maya fall in love. It is quite possible to marry a person you don't love. And then you can regret. Dev gets so irritable only after his career is finished by injury.
And it's coz she identified with his troubled marriage. And that can turn into love after being with each other. Not to say there are some utter stupidities init but on the whole I think the falling in love is shown pretty convincingly.
Any replies..?
Sure Mr/Ms Anonymous. I think just what I have written- anything illogical is beyond my comprehension. If falling in love is not logical, then I dont understand it. I did mention that it is not a bad film to watch after all...
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