A lot of hip-hop and blah blah, thats why I am forced to write again after many days. Interestingly this time, it is not an issue like reservation or lowering value of parliamentary sessions, it is just a movie named Kabhi Alvida Na Kahana.
A lot of my friends have discussed about this movie and most of them were not satisfied with this movie, although at the same time, most of them were satisfied with Krrish, as after watching this movie you need not to think about the movie and there was no message with it, but with KANK they have the problem, because it has something, which makes them think, which makes them scared a bit.a
The allegations were like this; after introducing Valentine Day and Friendship Bands, now the party is coming to break the relations. Firstly, they were targeting youth and now they are targeting the marriages, Indian Culture and faith in personal relations. And most unfortunate is that they have a large audience and even if we condemned them very hard, they are going to make there destructive ideas to public in their ways and we are unable to anything.
Not only India but outside India, in Asia and Overseas
Maybe u went into the movie hall with too much anti-KJ bias in ur head. I m no KJ fan but this time he does surprise us with a decently good movie. This is well below his best (KKHH) but he has handled the issue with the sincerity and seriousness it deserves. and the end message is pretty clear. Marry the person u love;if not things could become boring. Contrary to what u have said I think SRK has given a sincere performance quite comparable to his earlier good performances in Baazigar and Darr.The first 1-1.5 hrs r a complete waste of time but after the cracks start showing in the marriages the proceedings get good. One more good thing abt the movie is that it till the very end (and even after) does stick to reality. If u see the characters, Maya and Dev r more flawed than their resp partners. there seems no way for them to get up from there. The best way is to opt out. the best part is that the movie goes to the same conclusion, for once breaking the "great Indian tradition" of Pativrata, mangalsutra and such gimmicks. Besides both Dev and Maya know that they r failures. Its better being a total failure,living on ur own than being a parasite on someone else.
This is progressive cinema guys....this is not a utopian police officer who fights the maligns of the society...if you like that go to UP or Bihar and be a front bencher. If India role models Bihar/UP, we know where we will be heading to.
You will not have such a police officer emerging in your neoghborhood who will justify Ram Gopal Verma's reality check. The problem such as "cheating" and running out is ours not a sociey's that you need a Ramgopal Verma to script out a police officer to eradicate the issue. Grow up audience...grow up from mindless fight sequences and Bachchan/Dharmendra dialogues.
RE:KANK is good...I liked it...no doubt
by Anuj on Sep 01, 2006 06:52 PM
To the progressive viewers who think that its great to watch a poorly edited movie showing half-baked characters full-filing their untamed fantasies - Wish we could utilize the time of our progressive viewers in something more meaningful!!
The other day a friend of mine told me - what's the point bringing a reality to daylight. if a wife is unhappy in her marriage she will work it out all her life...as if she is supposed to...ha ha ha!...most of us who are MCPs, excuse my french...have homemaker wives...and we believe our musculinity and being the man should be enough to bring home what we need..wives should enjoy their lives cooking...raising children...at the most some will go a step further and boast on having a social wife who goes to parties...well..bottomline...she need not work. That's the problem guys...we get and appreciate the fact that when we come home after work, food is ready at the dining table...the wife is waiting to eat together...and we go to bed together...According to my friend it's not worth to tell that wife that I was flirting my co-worker or my secretary, or even went to a bar after work with friends to get professional pleasure in it's juicy form. Great!!
Karan johar tried portraying the issue... why are we MCPs getting hurt!!! after all it's a film yaaR!!! get a life!! karan johar is not saying what is good or what is bad...it's on the audience to figure it out...
What was Karan thinking??? It was one of the dumbest movie. He showed two loosers, gave us some sympathetic reason why they were loosers & justifies their infidelity. Just to Guys & Girls out there THERE IS NOTHING WHICH JUSTIFIES YOU CHEATING ON YOUR PARTNER, if you can adjust break up, DONT CHEAT
KANK has its good moments and has good music. But its very long and a drag. The movie has a wrong message. I live in US and even here people don't promote/highlight extramarital relationships. The characterization is bad. Most of the character look confused. The movie doesn't convey why Rani doesn't like Abhisekh, but likes Dev, who doesnt have any positive characters or similarity with her character. Movie doesn't convey why Dev doesn't like Pretty. Why is Sam, who loved his wife so much, chasing girls? Shahrukhs performance was the worst. He reminds me of Rajesh Khanna- same acting in all his movies. The verdict is clear as 90% of the sample size that have posted here didn't like the movie. Yes movie had a great opening. But you shouldn't judge a movie with Amitab, Shahrukh, Rani, Pretty, Abhisekh, great music and directed by Karan by its first week collection. All these stars have their fan following and the hype will ensure bumper 1st week collection. The 2nd week collection will speak the truth. I read today the 2nd week collections have fallen flat. Remember what happened to the movie that released exactly same time last year (Mangal Pandey). What a coincidence!
'Ufff'....that was precisely the reaction (not just mine, but also my fellow watchers, who had gone especially at 10pm on a Friday night to watch the latest product from the Johar camp. While walking out of the theatre, I heard words like 'horrible', '2nf half was totally not needed', 'it's stretched like a bubblegum'.....hmmm....I was glad Mr. Johar was not watching with us.
This Karan Johar ~3hr 40min saga, indeed, seems to be a never-ending tale, courtesy its slow pace and director's blind eye towards editing.
The first 15min were simply brilliant from a film-making point of view....the inter-mixing of sequences introducing each character.....the costume contrast of Shahrukh in New Yorker style jacket/jeans and Rani in a red Dulhan dress trying to meditate over her marriage happening right then.....that whole scene was awesome, particularly the way they walk away from each other, clandestinely turning back every 2 seconds shows the sprout of their symbiotic emotions. But the pace just takes a quick dip after that, like a zone V rapid.
