Kal Ho Naa Ho

Today I am gonna write about a movie that I have watched a dozen times and still fallen in love with each frame over and over again…

Its “Kal ho naa ho”, which was aired on sony again today….

The movie revolves around the life of Naina Katherine (Preity Zinta) who stays at New York with her family comprising of Jenny (Jaya Bachchan) and a bro,sis,dadima ,Indian neighbours et all…Naina’s life is simple yet complicated cos she finds no happiness at home ever since her father committed suicide..

Enter Aman Mathur (SRK) a happy-go-lucky (completely cliché term) neighbor who comes from India, meets Naina’s family and changes her life forever….

Naina invariably falls in love with him in true bollywood style-

First she hates him

Then she begins to like him

Then she’s head over heels in love with him!

But Aman suffers from a cardiac ailment and has little time left, so when Naina decides to propose to him, he lies about already being married to Sonali Bendre and Naina’s heart shatters.

Now another main character in the movie is that of Saif Ali Khan’s (Rohit)

He is Naina’s evening MBA classmate, and also loves her... But he realizes that she loves Aman...

Aman convinces Rohit to profess his love for Naina and she accepts his proposal, only

After they get enagaged does Naina realize that Aman has kept his illness in the dark from all of them...

Still Naina marries Rohit and Aman passes away ….

Now, many people argued that the movie is a direct lift from “Anand”. I haven’t watched that movie so will not comment on that aspect…

The movie has many beautiful moments-like where SRK faces Jenny’s mum-in law with some bitter truths about her son’s life.

Where Naina transforms from an angry, arrogant and emotionless maniac to a calm, happy and sprightly woman.

The movie also has an excellent dose of humour with Kanta ben providing a few good laughs and lilette dubey does an excellent job of posing as a seductress auntie!

The music’s so good, you will feel the songs haunting you even after you are done with watching the movie.. karan johar and nikhil advani make a good screen play turn into wonderful cinema with extremely good marketing and packaging thrown in..the streets of New York have never looked so inviting!

But according to me, Preity breathes life into every frame of the movie-she looks so divine and beautiful, her dimpled smile is her best asset apart from her silky straight hair (which by the way I’ve always dreamt of having!)

In the song,aaja mahi ve,she looks like an angel ! And the title song will make sure you hum it for atleast a day.

N everyone has heard “It’s the time to disco” ,it was the party anthem the year it released.

SRK n saif have done justice to their roles but for me Preity stands out more than SRK,yes he is good at his job but still Preity takes top grades home .

Saif’s career got a new lease of life with this movie and he proved he deserved it,he has done a great job –

His lying phases –about meetin Naina in the park with his dog,

Rajpal Yadav swap –blind date,

Che din,ladki in ,

Camilla episode,

geeta aur uske do gande gande bachche..

All these are some sample hilarious moments from the movie.

I remembered all those moments once again today while watching the movie.

Also the climax does cause a lump in your throat-nobody wants Aman to die, but he steals all our hearts with that scene.

A special mention of the cinematographer – I think its Anil mehta, not too sure ,but his camera work is just amazing and like I said, priety looks a million bucks.

So if u have watched kal ho naa ho, good J and do remember the message of the movie –

Jiyo,haso,khush raho

Kya pata ,kal ho naa ho….

And for those of you who haven’t watched it,run to the nearest DVD store and rent/buy a copy. You will not regret watching this movie even if you aren’t a great Karan Johar/SRK fan .

Till next time ,

:-) keep smiling!

PS : never have too many expectations from a director after enjoying his first movie completely –

I am talking of Nikhil Advani who directed Kal Ho Naa Ho ,his next film Salaam-E-Ishq was a big dud . It was a good yawn session and totally disastrous ,except 4 some life-saving pleasant music .

Comin up next is Aaja Nachle,being promoted as Madhuri’s come-back movie- which is cinematographer Anil Mehta’s directorial venture-let’s see if he can live upto people’s expectations …….hmmmm . Anil was the cinematographer for Kal Ho naa Ho