Date: 2006-08-21 10:30 Subject: 'K'loseup on KANK Security: Public

Watched Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna over the weekend. I am quite a critic of Bollywood movies, but I don't dismiss them off altogether. I know how much it takes to make a movie, and all the hard work that goes into it. I am a fan of film making in its entirety.

This movie is good in its visuals, its music and it, of course boasts of a starcast to reckon with. But the story, I cant help is very flawed. I dont vouch for infidelity in any situation, except in cases of physical or mental abuse by the spouse. But well, films on infidelity are very interesting, nonetheless. The best movies I have seen in this genre are Arth and Masoom. Silsila too was fine.

The very reason that Shahrukh's and Rani's characters get close is that they think that they are not getting their worth. But the catch here is that Abhishek's and Preity's characters are shown to be successful. Shahrukh and Rani seem to have too much time on their hands, to indulge in infidelity. 

I am not saying that they are wrong in getting bored with their respective spouses, or thinking that they have made a mistake in marrying them. But they are wrong as well for the reasons they chose each other. SRK's and Rani's characters also seem to have many differences, that sooner or later they are bound to separate as well. I never found the intimacy oozing out in their characters,  the script doesnt give much scope for that. The script rather emphasizes too much on the guilt trips they both make, and does have a lot of time for the songs in between. That makes it very less entertaining.

I don't endorse Karan Johar's movies, but I have to admit that I have watched each of his productions in the theaters. I have never been too disappointed in his ventures, nor too impressed as well. But KANK was disappointing. To take such an interesting and deep emotional topic and make quite a mockery of it, not good. I would like to say something to Karan Johar if  I could get a chance. "KJ, you are better of making sugar coated romantic stories, that you better stick to them, rather than experimenting with such topics. Leave them to Vishesh films and Mahesh Bhatt."