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Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham

Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham
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Directed by Karan Johar
Produced by Yash Johar,
Hiroo Johar,
Karan Johar
Written by Karan Johar,
Sheena Parikh
Starring Amitabh Bachchan,
Shahrukh Khan,
Jaya Bachchan,
Kajol,
Hrithik Roshan,
Kareena Kapoor &
Rani Mukerji (cameo)
Music by Jatin Lalit,
Sandesh Shandilya,
Aadesh Shrivastava
Distributed by Yash Raj Films, Dharma Productions
Release date(s) December 14, 2001
Running time 210 min.
Language Hindi / Urdu
Budget INR 450,000,000 (est.)
IMDb profile

Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (Devanagari: कभी ख़ुशी कभी ग़म, Nastaliq: کبھی خوشی کبھی غم - "Sometimes Happiness, Sometimes Sadness") is a Bollywood film released in India and countries with large NRI populations on December 14, 2001.

It features some of Bollywood's most popular actors: Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Kajol, Hrithik Roshan, Kareena Kapoor and Rani Mukerji in a guest appearance. It is director Karan Johar's second movie (after Kuch Kuch Hota Hai).

Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham was the highest grossing Indian film overseas till 2006, when its record was broken by Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna. It climbed up to 3rd place in the British box office within two weeks of release, and maintained its place for over 3 weeks. The film was also thought to have broken the American Box Office Top 10, but this remains uncertain due to a lack of confirmed figures from the distributors. The film was the first Bollywood feature to see a theatrical release in Germany (with German subtitles, a dubbed version was produced, too). It was the highest grossing Indian film ever until Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Devdas (2002) released.

Synopsis

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Still from the film: Jaya & Amitabh Bahchcan (l-r)

Rahul (Shahrukh Khan) is the adopted son of Yashvardhan "Yash" Raichand (Amitabh Bachchan) and his wife Nandini (Jaya Bachchan). Both of them love Rahul more than their real son Rohan (Hrithik Roshan), who is younger than Rahul by several years. Yash Raichand is a rich and famous business man in India. He believes in keeping traditions, and is against love marriages. When Rahul returns home from overseas, he meets Anjali (Kajol) and falls in love with her. Pooja, Anjali's little sister, and Rohan become friends too.

Yash decides to get Rahul married to his friend's daughter, Naina (Rani Mukerji). Rahul, however, tells his father that he wants to marry Anjali; this angers Yash, who berates Rahul for not considering Anjali's breeding and status (Anjali is a common girl from a middle class family, as opposed to Naina). Rahul apologizes to Yash and promises to do whatever is asked of him. He goes to tell Anjali that can't marry her, and finds that her father has died suddenly. After seeing that Anjali and Pooja have no other family and no one to live with, he marries Anjali on the spot. When he brings her home, his father disowns him. Rahul, shocked and hurt, shares an emotional good-bye with his mother; Nandini asks Rohan's nanny, Sayeeda (Farida Jalal), to go with Rahul wherever he goes so that he will always have a mother's love and care. After visiting Rohan, who is at boarding school, one last time he leaves with Anjali, Pooja, and Sayeeda.

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Still from the film: Kajol and Shahrukh Khan (l-r)

Rohan (Hrithik Roshan) is devastated by the split in the family, but has never learned why Rahul left because Rahul had made him promise never to ask. When Rohan comes home for the holidays ten years later, he stops to meet his maternal and paternal grandmothers. He overhears them discussing the split, and they tell him the whole truth. When Rohan returns home, he learns from a few acquaintances of Anjali's that Rahul and Anjali have settled down in London. Vowing to himself to bring Rahul and Anjali home, he tells his parents that he wants to go to London to study. Yash reluctantly agrees. As soon as he arrives in London, he tracks Rahul down and learns his address. He enrolls at university and finds that Pooja (who has grown up to be a spoiled, sassy, and modern young woman) happens to be a student there. He tells her who he is and asks her to help him unite the family.

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Still from the film: Hrithik Roshan and Kareena Kapoor (l-r)

Meanwhile, Rahul has started his own business and is living comfortably with Anjali and their nine-year-old son, Krish. Pooja tells them that Rohan is her best friend's brother who has come from India and needs a place to stay. Rahul and Anjali warmly welcome him (or rather, grudgingly on Rahul's part), and Rohan soon becomes a part of the family without revealing who he is. He reminds the family how much they miss India and their parents. Eventually, he tells everyone the truth and tries to convince Rahul to go back to India and meet his parents. He even goes so far as to convince Yash and Nandini to come to London with hope that Yash will reunite with Rahul. This fails, but Rahul and Nandini share a joyful reunion. At this point Anjali, too, attempts to persuade Rahul to go back to India and meet his father. Rahul, convinced that his father doesn't love him and wants nothing to do with him, remains adamant, until they learn that Yash's mother has died; her last wish was for Rahul, Yash, and Rohan to light her funeral pyre together. Rahul goes back to India, but participates in the funeral without speaking to his father.

Nandini confronts Yash and tells him, for the first time in ten years, that he was wrong in cutting ties with Rahul, whom he had brought into their home with love and and happiness. This leaves Yash stunned, and at odds with himself. Rohan finally manages to convince Rahul to speak to Yash. He takes Rohan, Pooja, and Anjali and goes to meet him, and finds Yash humbled and sad. He apologizes to Rahul and berates him for believing that Yash, his father, did not love him and for not returning home sooner.

Things end happily, with Rohan and Pooja's wedding and a belated celebration of Rahul and Anjali's wedding.

Cast

Still from the film: Kajol, Shahrukh Khan, Jaya Bachchan, Amitabh Bachchan, Kareena Kapoor and Hrithik Roshan (l-r)
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Still from the film: Kajol, Shahrukh Khan, Jaya Bachchan, Amitabh Bachchan, Kareena Kapoor and Hrithik Roshan (l-r)

Production

Kareena Kapoor in the song Deewana Hai Dekho
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Kareena Kapoor in the song Deewana Hai Dekho

The film brings back the Kuch Kuch Hota Hai star cast comprising of Shahrukh Khan, Kajol and Rani Mukerji.

The second half of the film is set principally in London, and many scenes were filmed there. The film was also shot in places like Egypt, Bicester Village Shopping Centre (on DVD's deleted scenes), Blenheim Palace (King's College in the film), Bluewater Shopping Centre (the mall), Bond St., Kingsway Rd., Covent Garden, British Museum, Butler's Wharf, Heathrow Airport, Leicester Square, Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Piccadilly Circus, Stowe School, The Strand and Waddesdon Manor.

The "e" added to Kabhi was mainly because the director, Karan Johar believes in numerology. Shahrukh Khan's son, Aryan Khan plays the young Rahul in the beginning of the movie.

Abhishek Bachchan initially had a cameo in this movie but it was later cut out. Karan Johar mentioned in the Deleted Scenes DVD that the legendary actress Waheeda Rahman was to play Amitabh Bachchan's mother in the film. A few scenes were shot but her husband died and Waheeda Rahman was forced to opt out. In 2005 the movie was released on DVD in Poland as Czasem slonce, czasem deszcz (Sometimes sun, sometimes rain).

Soundtrack

Bachchan, Mukerji & Khan (l-r) in the song Say Shava Shava
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Bachchan, Mukerji & Khan (l-r) in the song Say Shava Shava

The music of the film was done by Jatin Lalit, Sandesh Shandilya and Aadesh Shrivastava as a special guest music director. Lyrics were provided by Sameer and Anil Pandey. There are total 11 tracks in the album. Singers such as Lata Mangeshkar, Alka Yagnik, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Udit Narayan, Sonu Nigam, Amit Kumar, Sudesh Bhonsle, Sunidhi Chauhan and Usha Uthap were selected for singing.

Songs

  1. Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (Lata Mangeshkar)
  2. Bole Chudiyan (Kavita Krishnamurthy, Alka Yagnik, Sonu Nigam, Udit Narayan, & Amit Kumar)
  3. You Are My Sonia (Alka Yagnik & Sonu Nigam)
  4. Suraj Hua Madham (Alka Yagnik & Sonu Nigam)
  5. Say Shava Shava (Alka Yagnik, Udit Narayan, Sudesh Bhosle, Aadesh Shrivastava, Sunidhi Chauhan & Amitabh Bachchan)
  6. Yeh Ladki Hai Allah (Udit Narayan & Alka Yagnik)
  7. Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham Sad Part 1 (Sonu Nigam)
  8. Deewana Hai Dekho (Kareena Kapoor, Alka Yagnik & Sonu Nigam)
  9. Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham Sad Part 2 (Lata Mangeshkar)
  10. Soul of K3G
  11. Vande Mataram (Usha Uthup)
  • Although the film was the musical blockbuster of the year it didn't win any award for Best Music Director, but it won for Best Background Score at the IIFA Awards.
  • Sonu Nigam won 2 awards for the songs Suraj Hua Madham and one for You Are My Soniya.

Copied songs

The movie used the song It's Raining Men without permission or acknowledgement and was sued successfully in a UK court. Karan Johar was ordered to pay compensation.[1]

Awards

Filmfare Awards

The film received fifteen nominations at the Filmfare Awards and ultimately won five awards. The awards it won are highlighted in bold.

See also

External links

Films directed by Karan Johar
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai  (1998) • Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham  (2001) • Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006)

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