Kuch Kuch Hota Hai [Blu-ray]

GREAT FAMILY film , Karan Johar really delivers in his debut direction , writing and overall great choice of actors. Chemistry , beauty, comedy, romance, all present and accounted for by SRK , Kajol & Rani Mukerji. Salman Khan has an extended cameo and does very well in it. This is Bollywood so along the way you are still going to have the school dance/talent show singing and the summer camp singing and a couple of other songs for the emotions but hey this IS BOLLYWOOD and I have grown to love it.Sweet tale of friendship between young man and young girl at college. The young girl is played by Kajol as a bit of a tomboy who loves sports and never thinks of romance ; She's too busy beating SRK at basketball. Along comes Rani Mukerji in fashionable clothes and gorgeous makeup and steals her "boyfriend" away. Too late she realizes what he meant to her and heartbroken she walks away. The second half of the movie is done at first through the vantage point of a young girl named Anjali who's mother died when she was a few weeks old. Her mother wrote her several letters to be opened one for each year on her birthday. Her 8th birthday letter has her opening her mother and father's love story and how they met;and how Anjali got her name. She is told that her father will always love his first best friend Anjali. That she needs to try and get her dad to try to love again.Find Anjali and get them together before it's too late. Will she succeed in the nick of time. She best hurry Anjali's getting engaged to Salman. With the help of Grandma and a very fun summer camp and even Salman Khan, she should be able to achieve her grandmas dream of a complete family again. Somewhere along the way kuch kuch hota hai.There is an excellent story written here with fantastic normal sounding dialogues and music. No freakish people thrown in at weird times with supposed jokes, just great acting that feels so 1950's MGM musical you don't want to turn of the dvd player as strange as that sounds. Fun scenes for the kids. Age 8 and above ought to be able to understand the movie but 10 and up for more enjoyment and understanding of the dialogue. This is Bollywood at it's best and considering Karan Johar wrote a timeless film that looks as if it were done just yesterday and pulled that off in 1996 that's saying something. Compare other bolly's from this time period and they fall flat on their face . This one floats like cream to the top. Enjoy.

I really can't describe the plot of this movie with more detail than previous reviewers have done & I also don't have the understanding of Bollywood cinema to put Kuch Kuch Hota Hai in context of that tradition, so I just want to add a review that I really enjoyed watching this movie.I've read the reviews that say the first half of the film is a caricatured bright-colored facsimile of college life, but in my opinion the first half builds the foundation for the story arc; both sides of this story are different in tone & that adds complexity to the storyline. Regardless of the color schemes & costuming choices the first half develops the characters & their relationships, & fills in the backstory. And unlike some Bollywood musicals, the song & dance numbers advance the plot, something I'm used to seeing in American musicals.The second half is a sea change with more lilting melodic songs & echoed chords from the earlier songs that add complexity to the storyline, something else I enjoyed in 1940s & 50s American musicals & don't see in contemporary American movies. The bubbliness & youthful openness of the lead actors change, but also draws on the remembrance of their earlier relationship, as the actors become more subtly romantic & yearning in the second part of the movie. So in other words, if you're watching K2H2 for the first time, don't judge it by the first...forty minutes.Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol are standouts in their parts & make the story better than it otherwise would have been. Sparks fly from this strong pairing. It's fun to see the juxtaposition of their characters from the first & second half making the movie one that's fun to watch over again. I disliked most of the comic secondary characters, but enjoyed the editing that placed different scenes next to each other in an effective way. I appreciated that the plot pacing was fairly quick too, except for at the end.I admit I do like the makeover movies: Pretty Woman, etc., so that element also had something to do with how much I enjoyed this movie. I also usually enjoy flashback chapters for the historical depth it can add to a storyline, so high marks from me on that element too.Hollywood hasn't made many movies lately that interest me, so thanks Bollywood. I'm more than happy to give you my money instead. Other Bollywood movies I've enjoyed are Lagaan & the fusion movies Bride & Prejudice & Monsoon Wedding.

A film for all ages and for all time. The music alone grabs at you as do the voices of Udit Narayan and Alka Yagnik in the song Kuch Kuch Hota Hai! Karan Johan is a master Director and Shah Rukh Khan is in tip top form and at his striking best physically and romantically! Rani Mukerjee grabs your attention as much as Kajol does! It's a film about young love, first love, love at first sight and the ability to express in gestures, what most often, cannot be expressed in words! Anjali, Rahul's daughter is left 8 letters by her mother who had passed away when she was a baby. On her 8th birthday she learns why she was named "Anjali", and of her mother's dying wish for her to find her namesake. As Anjani reads the letter which tells of how her parents met, the film takes you back to Rahul's school days and the tumultuous years he shared with his best friend Anjali . Rahul was a flirt and Anjali, a tom boy. They never considered their relationship as anything else than best friends. Tina was the Principal's daughter, newly arrived from Oxford University. For Rahul, it was love at first sight! But Rahul's explanation in class about what love is, stuns Anjali. Kuch Hota Hai! Something is happening! Before Anjali can express her feelings, Rahul shares his with her. Devastated, Anjali leaves the school without telling Rahul she is going away forever. He is upset and unsuccessful in his attempts to stop her. Anjali never corresponds. Will Rahul's daughter, Anjali, succeed in finding her namesake? Will Rahul and Anjali ever meet again? The songs and dances are catchy! Shah Rukh Khan moves with an easy grace, so does Rani Mukerjee and Salman Khan. It's a lighthearted, fun and heartwarming film not to be missed. A DVD to own!

Awesome product delivered on time by amazon.Kuch kuch hota hai still remains a blockbuster today thanks to it's fantastic storyline and dialogues.The product was well packed and same as the picture shown here.It is a Sony dvd video which is why picture qualityis sharper and price is around 385 bucks.Works on any dvd player and computer. Kudos to amazon

Funny and oh so heartbreakingly good as always. Grew up with it.

love the movie.

Si vous achetez KUCH KUCH HOTA HAI, un des meilleurs films de Bollywood, trois recommandations pour en profiter pleinement :- la première est de trouver un créneau de 3 heures durant lequel vous êtes certain(e) de ne pas être dérangé(e) par des obligations familiales, sociales ou professionnelles. Ni courses à faire, ni repas à préparer, ni lessive ou ménage, ni aide aux devoirs, ni conversations oiseuses ou câlins intempestifs. Interdisez pendant tout ce temps l''accès du salon à votre conjoint, vos enfants, vos parents, vos amis, l''employé des Postes et aux éboueurs si c''est l''époque des étrennes.- la seconde est de vous installer assez confortablement pour tenir 3 heures sans avoir à vous lever pour vous détendre les jambes, prendre une bière dans le frigo, répondre au téléphone ou faire un tour aux WC. Baissez la lumière, prévoyez d''avoir à portée de la main : boisson et boite (neuve) de mouchoirs en papier. Coupez les téléphones (fixe et portable), démontez la sonnerie de l''entrée et mettez une pancarte « Do Not Disturb » sur la porte de votre appartement.- la dernière recommandation : si malgré tout ça vous n'avez pas apprécié ce film, courrez immédiatement chez votre psychiatre car vous êtes probablement gravement malade et au bord de la dépression. Refaite une nouvelle tentative lorsque le médecin vous y autorisera.Si vous suivez bien mes recommandations, vous aurez alors 3 heures d''émotions, de larmes et de rires. Moment de bonheur intense, magnifique mais trop court, dont vous garderez cependant un souvenir ému tout le reste de votre vie.

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai was recommended to us by a friend,the cover does'nt do the film any favours,and after the first 15 minutes i thought we had bought a duff film, then wow! it grabbed us. i will write the description from the rear of the dvd as none is written on amazons page:Kuch Kuch Hota Hai is a sweet tale of friendship and love. Rahul (shahrukh Khan) and Anjali (Kajol) are inseparable friends at college. unknown to Rahul Anjali is in love with him who inturn falls head over heels in love for a new student Tina (Rani Mukherji). when Anjali learns the truth, she is heart broken and leaves college. In the meantime Rahul and Tina get married.Nine years have now passed and Rahul is a Single parent after Tinas death. What has become of Anjali? what is Rahuls daughter upto? Who is Aman? the plot unravels in a dramatic climax and alls well that ends well.I can only say that this film is fabulous and well worth watching, it now ranks as one of our favourite of all films and its only our second " bollywood" film. The actors, after a slow start, engage you and you feel the whole journey, its normal for me to shead a tear at the end of a really good film, and im not ashamed to admit it! but its a first for me to shead them at many points during the film!