A very long write up on Kabhi Khushi Kabie Gham, very SRK-Kajol centric
I've been thinking about SRK and Kajol. Oh My God. I just started rewatching Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, my favorite Bollywood movie of all time. Oh My God. LOVE. Oh, oh, oh, oh please, someone get them to co-star again. Please. I don't care if the movie will be about cleaning supplies.
And thinking about SRK-Kajol, I realized I never did a proper write-up of Kabhi Khushi Kabie Gham. Yes, Kabhi Khushi Kabie Gham, their last movie together (from 2001), a sprawling family epic melodrama with an all-star cast to die for. For those who have never seen it, it's a good entry into Bollywood and one of the highest grossing Bolly movies of all time.
Plot: The story centers around the rich Raichand family. Rahul (SRK) is the adopted son of Yash and Nandini (real life married couple of superstars Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan). In India, there is still a stigma in being adopted, so it's not something the Raichands (Jaya was incapable of having a child) were ever going to tell Rahul but he finds it out when a child anyway. Ever since, his love for his parents is mixed with a huge dose of gratitude and he tries to be the ideal son, and an ideal brother to the baby Jaya did give birth to ten years later or so, Rohan (the grown-up version of whom is played by a fellow superstar Hrithik Roshan). But of course his duty and gratitude get put to an unbearable test when he falls madly in love with madcap, loud Anjali (Kajol), an entirely unsuitable daughter of a poor sweetshop owner in the slums. Will Yash, as despotic as he is loving, forgive Rahul going against his family? Will Rohan bring the broken-up family together? Watch almost four hours of color, gorgeousness and crying to find out.
This is not a perfect movie. I think there is too much crying, and I find Anjali can be over-the-top sometimes (Karan Johar had her be half the romantic heroine and half comic relief). But I don't care. If the reserved Rahul wants someone loud and hyper? Good for him. It actually makes sense that he would fall in love with someone this spontaneous and fun. He is partially amused/bemused by her because she is such an opposite of his buttoned up family. Proper and polished and measured.
I have to give huge props to K3G for being one of the earlier movies portraying a happy, sexy marriage. Rahul and Anjali are married in the second half and I love the scenes with them together. It's ten years from their wedding, and they have been disowned, and of course Rahul misses his family, but their marriage is happy. I love the scene when she prepares to kiss him when he leaves for work, or when she jokes about being cheap with the car. Or the deleted scene where she dresses up to seduce him and drags him away from the computer (it's the most adorable, funny, hot thing). Or another deleted scene where they are shown shopping when she is pregnant. I love it. And then there is the eye-popping Bole Chudhyan, one of the best picturizations ever (and the only chance for a Bollyholic to see the two best Bollywood dancers, SRK and Hrithik dance side by side. My verdict? Hrithik is the most technically amazing dancer I've ever seen, but SRK has so much joy in it, I kept staring at him instead). Anjali is trying to cajole Rahul a bit to join in the fun and all of a sudden, he does and cuts loose and is adorable and romantic and just to die for.
And that leads me to another thing. I love, love LOVE that Rahul marries Anjali despite Yash's forbidding it. He is diminished in being away from his family, but I love that he does it. And at the end, Yash asks forgiveness (and so does Rahul and it's forgiveness all around, as it's family after all), but if you haven't seen tha many Bolly movies, you don't know that is rather unusual. In the 90s movies, the trend is to do what the elders tell you. To be silent and obey. And I love that Rahul tries, tries so hard to tear out his heart but he is ultimately unable.
You know, I can understand both why Rahul loves Yash so strongly (and not just because of gratitude) and how Yash is horrible as a father. He is both all-loving and all-encompassing in his care (here where the casting comes spot on. Amitabh's larger than life aura and charisma are crucial) but like any God, he is a jealous God. His love is conditional or so he lets Rahul believe. One of the hardest scenes for me to watch in Bollywood movies is the scene where Rahul tells him about his love for Anjali and the aftermath. The way the scene is shot: Yash sitting in an armchair and Rahul collapses on his knees by the chair (and once again, the great casting: Amitabh tall stern aristocratic, like an Old Testament Patriarch, SRK much slighter, with that heart-breaking voice only SRK can do: he sounds like he is trying not to, but can't help but have his heart utterly open for you to walk on. Also, another note. I can totally see the tall, aristo-looking Hrithik be tall aristo looking Amitabh's bio child and SRK looking so different from the family). And Rahul is abasing himself so much, abnegating himself utterly, and his heartbreak is so evident and his love for his father and his desire to not disappoint and you can see it's killing him, and all Yash says to his son, falling apart in front of his eyes is, how disappointed he is. And only when Rahul promises to give up Anjali, does Yash touch his collapsed son's head, in a sort of blessing fashion.
This is not a relationship of equals. It's not even a healthy parent-child relationship. Yash knows that Rahul feels, has felt for years, that he has to earn his parents' love, to keep on earning it, and he is so using it.
But that leads to my favorite scene in the movie, probably one of my favorite scenes in any movie. Because it's raining, and Rahul is walking to Anjali, to break it off forever, and it's raining, and he is the only one without an umbrella. And as he gets to her house, there is a cround and he pushes through the sea of umbrellas to see her there, all in white with her sister Pooja (grown up version of whom is played by Kareena Kapoor, who was so lately excellent as Indian version of Desdemona in Omkara. Btw, I just realized that all four leads in K3G got Filmfare noms this year: SRK, Hrithik, Kareena, Kajol). Because her father who's been ailing throughout has died. And she is beside herself in grief, and I love the look on Rahul's face as he realizes that no matter what, no matter the cost, he cannot leave her, he won't leave her all alone. And she runs to him, utterly heart-broken, and he places his hand on her head. OMG.
And there is a quick wedding. I just love how resolved he is. Considering that he knows how Yash is, and how much he loves his parents, it's quite amazing. And then he shows up at the house with Anjali and in a horribly painful scene, not only does Yash throw them out of the house, he tells Rahul the unforgivable: that he is not his son, never his son. And you see Rahul reel.
I find it so indicative that Rohan, the 'real' son is so much more confident of his place in the family, has always been. But that Jaya loves her baby Rahul much more and Rohan is OK with it.
To get back to the events before this, K3G has one of the best, eye popping openings. With the title song. K3G actually might have the best soundtrack and picturizations of any Bollywood movie. One of the things I always remember is the image of helicopter blades (SRK is flying home for the holidays) turns into Rani Mukherji's joyfully spinning arms. It's a little thing but I could rewatch it forever.
Also, say what you will for Karan Johar (the director's) SRK fetish, SRK rarely looks as good as he looks in Karan's movies. And not only that but he has him run, and I just love watching the way he runs. It's so fluid. (I wish I were a super-famous, super-successful director with the power to make SRK act out my fantasies on screen. Only in mine there will be a lot less clothes). He has this wonderful intro in this movie, the only person in black, business back, running to the house, across the lawn, in the hallway, black shoes, black pants, black sweater, looking gorgeous enough to eat.
Others may think it's hockey that his Mom can tell that he is near with her 'mother sense' but as someone who is really close to her Mom, I love it. Rahul might idolize his father but he adores his mother and she adores him back. Her love is always unconditional.
I love Naina (Rani's character). She is someone who is a good friend with Rahul, who in some ways a lot more compatible with him: she is of the right social class, she is not loud and brash, they banter well, she is pretty. And she loves him. But I love the movie showing, Bolly style, that love is not always convenient, and someone like Anajli can make Rahul sparkle, make him turn into a sexy tease, make him light up.
Oh yeah, Anjali. Has Kajol ever looked more beautiful than in Suraj Hua Maddam? I love their first meeting. When everything literally goes into slo-mo for Rahul and he has to catch his breath, when he sees her celebrating in the street, the cricket win, so utterly uncontrolled and unselfconscious and joyous. It's one of the best ever moments of 'love at first sight' in Bollywood (the crazy chemistry SRK and Kajol share help).
I find Anjali a bit OTT sometimes but she makes me laugh and smile and girlcrush. And it's delightful to see Kajol portray a madcap. I love her strong, inward women roles as in DDLJ, second half of KKHH and this year's Fanaa. But it's fun to see her as a screwball heroine.
And I love that she doesn't realize for the longest time that Rahul is head over heels. She comes up with the dorkiest hypotheses: he wants to take over their sweets shop (heh), because the truth is so inconcieable as their stations in life are so different. I die a little every bit during Yeh Ladki Hai Allah, when she shows up at the wedding of her best friend (in a significant touch, Yash sent him instead, refusing to go, even though the girl getting married is the only child of Rohan's nanny. Classist much!). And he is wearing traditional clothes, and he's rarely looked hotter, and he is teasing her in this incredible sexy, loving way and she is totally hooked but is trying to fight it and...OK, I am dead from the cute.
And I love the scene where she finally figures out he loves her and when he tells her it in so many words. He is putting bangles (which are apparently what men give as an engagement thing) on her wrists in a shop in really hot way and there is all this innuendo and everything and I melt, but then the best picturization ever comes on: Suraj Hua Maddam. It's one of the sexiest, swooniest, most romantic things ever. But what I find really interesting is the intercuts between what they are imagining as their happy life together: for her it's him in her environment, utterly comfortable. And vice versa. I love the scene in his imagination where everyone is at some fancy party, all in black, and she is the only one in red, color of desire.
And the parts of the number near the pyramids? And in the water with the neck kissing and the running and everything? Wow. You don't want to know how many times I've rewatched this song.
I do like the reconciliation at the end. The family as incomplete without being together is an idealisti idea, but that is what Bollywood is for. And I love that Yash tells Rahul that he's always loved him, that he is his his own, because it's something that Rahul so desperately needed to hear after the ten years, to erase all the hurt (because what Yash threw in his face seemed to not just negate the relationship from then on, but everything that went on before). And I do love that before that, he was reluctant to step foot into the house. He wasn't just a carpet for Yash to walk on, but he hardened his heart back.
And I love Jaya finally standing up to Yash, and I love Rohan, the benevolent schemer, bringing the family back together. I love the scene when the two brothers meet again after a decade and Rahul doesn't recognize Rohan and you see Rohan walk in, slo-mo and it's just so awesome because Rohan is totally moved and Rahul is oblivious. I do find it a bit odd that Rohan tries to do little hints/questions that Rahul and Anjali are unhappy without parental love. I see the purpose, to make them thing about reconciliation, but still...There is this one amazing little scene that speaks more about why Anjali is a good wife for Rahul than all the gorgeous swoony music numbers put together. Rohan brings up something painful, and you see Anjali instinctively go to Rahul, to shield him from the pain, to comfort him by her presence, by little gestures. I love it.
And of course, the scene where Rahul finally finds out Rohan's identity and they are on that bench and they are sitting and Rahul is asking questions and trying to be all normal but then they hug. Awwwww. I really do love Rohan, even if I haven't written nearly as much about him. His determination to bring the family together, going against Yash's wishes even though he has concrete proof of how badly Yash takes insubordination, is awesome. And he is doing it because he knows his mother misses Rahul badly (even though he knows she prefers Rahul) and because he wants his brother back.
Or the scene where Jaya meets Rahul and Anjali in the mall and her eyes go to her grandson whom she's never seen. And Rahul's reaction.
Kareena Kapoor as grown up Pooja, known as Poo, is sort of annoying but she is supposed to be and she acts in such a hilarious way. I prefer Kareena in serious, strong woman arthouse roles, but she is funny here, especially in her bratty-younger-sister-over-protective-brother thing with Rahul (I bet Rahul and Anajali totally spoiled her to overcompensate). I am not supremely emotionally invested in Poo/Rohan ship, but I do think it's fun and cool and I love his teasing and it's full of hot people so I put it on the positive side of the ledger. They are awesome together.
The hockiest thing is British people singing Indian national anthem, but considering India must have quite a chip on its shoulder as a recent colony, I give Karan some slack.
So yeah, if you haven't seen it yet, watch.
And as further incentive, I bring you song videos and scenes from K3G under the cut.
Rahul sees Anjali for the first time:
Suraj Hua Maddham (Rahul and Anjali. My favorite picturization ever):
Yeh Ladka Hai Allah (Rahul and Anjali):
Not a song, but the first proper meeting of Rahul and Anjali. She thinks he is Ashfaque, the fiance of her friend. LOL:
Bole Chudiyan (everyone):
Title song:
Say Shava Shava (Yash and Rahul and Naina):
Vande Mataram (Rohan):
You are my Sonia (with Rohan and Poo):
Deewana Hai Dekho (Rohan and Poo):
Deleted scene with Rahul and Anjali:
(as translated on youtube:
After Kajol comes and says Agreed! To SRK, he says: Me too. Then..
SRK: I know. I know everything.
Kajol: What...
SRK: That your heart wants what mine does. I know your heart's every beat, its every secret.
Kajol: Secret..? What secret..
SRK: That you have fallen in love with me.
Kajol: Sorry?
SRK: Yes. Otherwise you would have let go of my hand ages ago. (She tries to pull away) What is it, Anjali? - I keep trying to take hold of your hand...and you keep trying to let go.
Kajol: How do I take hold of your hand? Behind there lies a road, where you cannot travel. Nor will you ever travel.
SRK: Anjali. So what if our paths our different. Our destination is one. Love. (And then his voice fades away murmuring something...He walks away then returns) One more thing, Anjali. I will definitely loot your sweet store!
Oh baby, double entendre!
On the SRK-Kajol note, I went looking on youtube for K3G songs and OMG, people make SRK/Kajol fanvids! I don't mean of the RPF variety (thank God, because eeeeek! Married. To other people. With children), but vids mixing various of their movies to pop songs. I have no idea whether to giggle or swoon so I do a bit of both.
And thinking about SRK-Kajol, I realized I never did a proper write-up of Kabhi Khushi Kabie Gham. Yes, Kabhi Khushi Kabie Gham, their last movie together (from 2001), a sprawling family epic melodrama with an all-star cast to die for. For those who have never seen it, it's a good entry into Bollywood and one of the highest grossing Bolly movies of all time.
Plot: The story centers around the rich Raichand family. Rahul (SRK) is the adopted son of Yash and Nandini (real life married couple of superstars Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan). In India, there is still a stigma in being adopted, so it's not something the Raichands (Jaya was incapable of having a child) were ever going to tell Rahul but he finds it out when a child anyway. Ever since, his love for his parents is mixed with a huge dose of gratitude and he tries to be the ideal son, and an ideal brother to the baby Jaya did give birth to ten years later or so, Rohan (the grown-up version of whom is played by a fellow superstar Hrithik Roshan). But of course his duty and gratitude get put to an unbearable test when he falls madly in love with madcap, loud Anjali (Kajol), an entirely unsuitable daughter of a poor sweetshop owner in the slums. Will Yash, as despotic as he is loving, forgive Rahul going against his family? Will Rohan bring the broken-up family together? Watch almost four hours of color, gorgeousness and crying to find out.
This is not a perfect movie. I think there is too much crying, and I find Anjali can be over-the-top sometimes (Karan Johar had her be half the romantic heroine and half comic relief). But I don't care. If the reserved Rahul wants someone loud and hyper? Good for him. It actually makes sense that he would fall in love with someone this spontaneous and fun. He is partially amused/bemused by her because she is such an opposite of his buttoned up family. Proper and polished and measured.
I have to give huge props to K3G for being one of the earlier movies portraying a happy, sexy marriage. Rahul and Anjali are married in the second half and I love the scenes with them together. It's ten years from their wedding, and they have been disowned, and of course Rahul misses his family, but their marriage is happy. I love the scene when she prepares to kiss him when he leaves for work, or when she jokes about being cheap with the car. Or the deleted scene where she dresses up to seduce him and drags him away from the computer (it's the most adorable, funny, hot thing). Or another deleted scene where they are shown shopping when she is pregnant. I love it. And then there is the eye-popping Bole Chudhyan, one of the best picturizations ever (and the only chance for a Bollyholic to see the two best Bollywood dancers, SRK and Hrithik dance side by side. My verdict? Hrithik is the most technically amazing dancer I've ever seen, but SRK has so much joy in it, I kept staring at him instead). Anjali is trying to cajole Rahul a bit to join in the fun and all of a sudden, he does and cuts loose and is adorable and romantic and just to die for.
And that leads me to another thing. I love, love LOVE that Rahul marries Anjali despite Yash's forbidding it. He is diminished in being away from his family, but I love that he does it. And at the end, Yash asks forgiveness (and so does Rahul and it's forgiveness all around, as it's family after all), but if you haven't seen tha many Bolly movies, you don't know that is rather unusual. In the 90s movies, the trend is to do what the elders tell you. To be silent and obey. And I love that Rahul tries, tries so hard to tear out his heart but he is ultimately unable.
You know, I can understand both why Rahul loves Yash so strongly (and not just because of gratitude) and how Yash is horrible as a father. He is both all-loving and all-encompassing in his care (here where the casting comes spot on. Amitabh's larger than life aura and charisma are crucial) but like any God, he is a jealous God. His love is conditional or so he lets Rahul believe. One of the hardest scenes for me to watch in Bollywood movies is the scene where Rahul tells him about his love for Anjali and the aftermath. The way the scene is shot: Yash sitting in an armchair and Rahul collapses on his knees by the chair (and once again, the great casting: Amitabh tall stern aristocratic, like an Old Testament Patriarch, SRK much slighter, with that heart-breaking voice only SRK can do: he sounds like he is trying not to, but can't help but have his heart utterly open for you to walk on. Also, another note. I can totally see the tall, aristo-looking Hrithik be tall aristo looking Amitabh's bio child and SRK looking so different from the family). And Rahul is abasing himself so much, abnegating himself utterly, and his heartbreak is so evident and his love for his father and his desire to not disappoint and you can see it's killing him, and all Yash says to his son, falling apart in front of his eyes is, how disappointed he is. And only when Rahul promises to give up Anjali, does Yash touch his collapsed son's head, in a sort of blessing fashion.
This is not a relationship of equals. It's not even a healthy parent-child relationship. Yash knows that Rahul feels, has felt for years, that he has to earn his parents' love, to keep on earning it, and he is so using it.
But that leads to my favorite scene in the movie, probably one of my favorite scenes in any movie. Because it's raining, and Rahul is walking to Anjali, to break it off forever, and it's raining, and he is the only one without an umbrella. And as he gets to her house, there is a cround and he pushes through the sea of umbrellas to see her there, all in white with her sister Pooja (grown up version of whom is played by Kareena Kapoor, who was so lately excellent as Indian version of Desdemona in Omkara. Btw, I just realized that all four leads in K3G got Filmfare noms this year: SRK, Hrithik, Kareena, Kajol). Because her father who's been ailing throughout has died. And she is beside herself in grief, and I love the look on Rahul's face as he realizes that no matter what, no matter the cost, he cannot leave her, he won't leave her all alone. And she runs to him, utterly heart-broken, and he places his hand on her head. OMG.
And there is a quick wedding. I just love how resolved he is. Considering that he knows how Yash is, and how much he loves his parents, it's quite amazing. And then he shows up at the house with Anjali and in a horribly painful scene, not only does Yash throw them out of the house, he tells Rahul the unforgivable: that he is not his son, never his son. And you see Rahul reel.
I find it so indicative that Rohan, the 'real' son is so much more confident of his place in the family, has always been. But that Jaya loves her baby Rahul much more and Rohan is OK with it.
To get back to the events before this, K3G has one of the best, eye popping openings. With the title song. K3G actually might have the best soundtrack and picturizations of any Bollywood movie. One of the things I always remember is the image of helicopter blades (SRK is flying home for the holidays) turns into Rani Mukherji's joyfully spinning arms. It's a little thing but I could rewatch it forever.
Also, say what you will for Karan Johar (the director's) SRK fetish, SRK rarely looks as good as he looks in Karan's movies. And not only that but he has him run, and I just love watching the way he runs. It's so fluid. (I wish I were a super-famous, super-successful director with the power to make SRK act out my fantasies on screen. Only in mine there will be a lot less clothes). He has this wonderful intro in this movie, the only person in black, business back, running to the house, across the lawn, in the hallway, black shoes, black pants, black sweater, looking gorgeous enough to eat.
Others may think it's hockey that his Mom can tell that he is near with her 'mother sense' but as someone who is really close to her Mom, I love it. Rahul might idolize his father but he adores his mother and she adores him back. Her love is always unconditional.
I love Naina (Rani's character). She is someone who is a good friend with Rahul, who in some ways a lot more compatible with him: she is of the right social class, she is not loud and brash, they banter well, she is pretty. And she loves him. But I love the movie showing, Bolly style, that love is not always convenient, and someone like Anajli can make Rahul sparkle, make him turn into a sexy tease, make him light up.
Oh yeah, Anjali. Has Kajol ever looked more beautiful than in Suraj Hua Maddam? I love their first meeting. When everything literally goes into slo-mo for Rahul and he has to catch his breath, when he sees her celebrating in the street, the cricket win, so utterly uncontrolled and unselfconscious and joyous. It's one of the best ever moments of 'love at first sight' in Bollywood (the crazy chemistry SRK and Kajol share help).
I find Anjali a bit OTT sometimes but she makes me laugh and smile and girlcrush. And it's delightful to see Kajol portray a madcap. I love her strong, inward women roles as in DDLJ, second half of KKHH and this year's Fanaa. But it's fun to see her as a screwball heroine.
And I love that she doesn't realize for the longest time that Rahul is head over heels. She comes up with the dorkiest hypotheses: he wants to take over their sweets shop (heh), because the truth is so inconcieable as their stations in life are so different. I die a little every bit during Yeh Ladki Hai Allah, when she shows up at the wedding of her best friend (in a significant touch, Yash sent him instead, refusing to go, even though the girl getting married is the only child of Rohan's nanny. Classist much!). And he is wearing traditional clothes, and he's rarely looked hotter, and he is teasing her in this incredible sexy, loving way and she is totally hooked but is trying to fight it and...OK, I am dead from the cute.
And I love the scene where she finally figures out he loves her and when he tells her it in so many words. He is putting bangles (which are apparently what men give as an engagement thing) on her wrists in a shop in really hot way and there is all this innuendo and everything and I melt, but then the best picturization ever comes on: Suraj Hua Maddam. It's one of the sexiest, swooniest, most romantic things ever. But what I find really interesting is the intercuts between what they are imagining as their happy life together: for her it's him in her environment, utterly comfortable. And vice versa. I love the scene in his imagination where everyone is at some fancy party, all in black, and she is the only one in red, color of desire.
And the parts of the number near the pyramids? And in the water with the neck kissing and the running and everything? Wow. You don't want to know how many times I've rewatched this song.
I do like the reconciliation at the end. The family as incomplete without being together is an idealisti idea, but that is what Bollywood is for. And I love that Yash tells Rahul that he's always loved him, that he is his his own, because it's something that Rahul so desperately needed to hear after the ten years, to erase all the hurt (because what Yash threw in his face seemed to not just negate the relationship from then on, but everything that went on before). And I do love that before that, he was reluctant to step foot into the house. He wasn't just a carpet for Yash to walk on, but he hardened his heart back.
And I love Jaya finally standing up to Yash, and I love Rohan, the benevolent schemer, bringing the family back together. I love the scene when the two brothers meet again after a decade and Rahul doesn't recognize Rohan and you see Rohan walk in, slo-mo and it's just so awesome because Rohan is totally moved and Rahul is oblivious. I do find it a bit odd that Rohan tries to do little hints/questions that Rahul and Anjali are unhappy without parental love. I see the purpose, to make them thing about reconciliation, but still...There is this one amazing little scene that speaks more about why Anjali is a good wife for Rahul than all the gorgeous swoony music numbers put together. Rohan brings up something painful, and you see Anjali instinctively go to Rahul, to shield him from the pain, to comfort him by her presence, by little gestures. I love it.
And of course, the scene where Rahul finally finds out Rohan's identity and they are on that bench and they are sitting and Rahul is asking questions and trying to be all normal but then they hug. Awwwww. I really do love Rohan, even if I haven't written nearly as much about him. His determination to bring the family together, going against Yash's wishes even though he has concrete proof of how badly Yash takes insubordination, is awesome. And he is doing it because he knows his mother misses Rahul badly (even though he knows she prefers Rahul) and because he wants his brother back.
Or the scene where Jaya meets Rahul and Anjali in the mall and her eyes go to her grandson whom she's never seen. And Rahul's reaction.
Kareena Kapoor as grown up Pooja, known as Poo, is sort of annoying but she is supposed to be and she acts in such a hilarious way. I prefer Kareena in serious, strong woman arthouse roles, but she is funny here, especially in her bratty-younger-sister-over-protective-brother thing with Rahul (I bet Rahul and Anajali totally spoiled her to overcompensate). I am not supremely emotionally invested in Poo/Rohan ship, but I do think it's fun and cool and I love his teasing and it's full of hot people so I put it on the positive side of the ledger. They are awesome together.
The hockiest thing is British people singing Indian national anthem, but considering India must have quite a chip on its shoulder as a recent colony, I give Karan some slack.
So yeah, if you haven't seen it yet, watch.
And as further incentive, I bring you song videos and scenes from K3G under the cut.
Rahul sees Anjali for the first time:
Suraj Hua Maddham (Rahul and Anjali. My favorite picturization ever):
Yeh Ladka Hai Allah (Rahul and Anjali):
Not a song, but the first proper meeting of Rahul and Anjali. She thinks he is Ashfaque, the fiance of her friend. LOL:
Bole Chudiyan (everyone):
Title song:
Say Shava Shava (Yash and Rahul and Naina):
Vande Mataram (Rohan):
You are my Sonia (with Rohan and Poo):
Deewana Hai Dekho (Rohan and Poo):
Deleted scene with Rahul and Anjali:
(as translated on youtube:
After Kajol comes and says Agreed! To SRK, he says: Me too. Then..
SRK: I know. I know everything.
Kajol: What...
SRK: That your heart wants what mine does. I know your heart's every beat, its every secret.
Kajol: Secret..? What secret..
SRK: That you have fallen in love with me.
Kajol: Sorry?
SRK: Yes. Otherwise you would have let go of my hand ages ago. (She tries to pull away) What is it, Anjali? - I keep trying to take hold of your hand...and you keep trying to let go.
Kajol: How do I take hold of your hand? Behind there lies a road, where you cannot travel. Nor will you ever travel.
SRK: Anjali. So what if our paths our different. Our destination is one. Love. (And then his voice fades away murmuring something...He walks away then returns) One more thing, Anjali. I will definitely loot your sweet store!
Oh baby, double entendre!
On the SRK-Kajol note, I went looking on youtube for K3G songs and OMG, people make SRK/Kajol fanvids! I don't mean of the RPF variety (thank God, because eeeeek! Married. To other people. With children), but vids mixing various of their movies to pop songs. I have no idea whether to giggle or swoon so I do a bit of both.