During their college years, Anjali was in love with her best-friend Rahul, but he had eyes only for Tina. Years later, Rahul and the now-deceased Tina's eight-year-old daughter attempts to r... Read allDuring their college years, Anjali was in love with her best-friend Rahul, but he had eyes only for Tina. Years later, Rahul and the now-deceased Tina's eight-year-old daughter attempts to reunite her father and Anjali.During their college years, Anjali was in love with her best-friend Rahul, but he had eyes only for Tina. Years later, Rahul and the now-deceased Tina's eight-year-old daughter attempts to reunite her father and Anjali.
- Awards
- 32 wins & 6 nominations total
- Tina Malhotra
- (as Rani Mukherji)
- Mrs. Sharma
- (as Reema)
- Dancer
- (as Geeta Kapoor)
- Guest of Neelam Show
- (uncredited)
- Neelam the VJ
- (uncredited)
- Aunty
- (uncredited)
- Hippie - Lead Singer
- (uncredited)
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This was Karan Johar's film debut and took the film world by storm with this well made film. Beside having a meaningful love story, it ended well and gave a lot of closure to the audience. The humor also pours out easily as does the drama, the film alternates well between these two. We see a great love story that was meant to be and learn of noble characters who make decisions for the greater good.
The theme is simply iconic, I will be bold and go as far to say it is as significant in Indian Cinema as Titanic was in Hollywood.
Shahrukh and his best friend Kajol (Mukherjee-Devgan) are collegiates,until the principal's daughter Tina (Rani Mukherjee) enters their lives. To Anjali (Kajol) she is just a part of their clique but to Rahul (Shahrukh) she is a lot more.
Kajol is simply brilliant as a tomboyish collegiate who transforms herself to a mature woman. Shahrukh is himself. Newcomer Rani Mukherjee is bound to go places, after Ghulam & Mehndi.Cinematography is "Abfab"; choreography & music is great,costumes are very chic, supporting cast good.
The film introduces Johar's famous statement that the first step towards love is friendship and does it in a slightly cheesy yet rather convincing way. The film is a poignant story of two friends, a guy and a girl, who understand they actually love each other perhaps too late. And that's how it goes on. It flows well, with wonderfully composed songs, nicely written characters, several clichés here and there, many comic sequences, some melodramatic ones as well, but more importantly, a lot of Bollywood-style colour and fun.
Shahrukh Khan and Kajol work with electrifying chemistry. Their scenes together are pure magic. Both give crafted performances. Kajol is more impressive as the cool tomboy who transforms into a womanly, attractive and sensitive Anjali. She displays the pain, joy, happiness and confusion that her character goes through with great conviction. Shahrukh is fantastic as the young, cool guy, friend and boyfriend and later on as a loving and caring father who has lost his wife and suffers her loss.
Rani Mukherjee is beautiful and vibrant and makes for a very effective intelligent and dreamy girl. This is not an accomplished but very sincere performance which deserves full praise. Salman Khan is very good and surprisingly enough, manages to impress even in a brief, seemingly insignificant appearance. It may be because his character makes a great impact on the film's story and on the viewer.
I really liked the film's music, the title song being my favourite, and among other songs, the melancholic "Tujhe Yaad Na Meri Aayee" is very beautiful. Towards the end, there are some overly melodramatic sequences but they flow well enough to bring the long-awaited ending. Kuch Kuch Hota Hai is overall great entertainment and a must-watch for lovers of Hindi cinema and its films. It is compelling, moving and memorable, and is always fun to revisit. I recommend.
The characters are unique and very entertaining. Shahrukh Khan is at his best, and Kajol steals the show. Rani Mukherji was given a chance, by Karan Johar, to prove herself, and she certainly rose to the occasion. Farida Jalal, as the witty grandmother, is adorable, and so is little Anjali.
Overall, this is a wonderful movie. I would recommend it to anyone who would like to see a fun and sweet movie about true love.
Did you know
- TriviaRani Mukerji and Kajol are cousins in real life
- GoofsThe characters refer to Tina as having come from London, yet she studied at the University of Oxford. The University of Oxford is in the city of Oxford, not London.
- Quotes
Anjali Sharma: Why didn't you marry again?
Rahul Khanna: [jokingly] I didn't find you, did i? Otherwise I would have married you... Anjali, we get born once, we die once, we fall in love once, and we get married...
Anjali Sharma: [interrupting] ... once.
Rahul Khanna: well... why didn't you marry?
Anjali Sharma: I didn't find you, did I?
- ConnectionsEdited into Alka Yagnik and Udit Narayan: Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998)
- SoundtracksKuch Kuch Hota Hai
Music by Jatin Pandit and Lalit Pandit
Lyrics by Sameer
Performed by Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik
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- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
- Filming locations
- Blackrock Cottage, Glen Coe, Highland, Scotland, UK(Tum Paas Aaye song location)
- Production company
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Box office
- Budget
- ₹100,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $10,471
- Runtime3 hours 5 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1