Kuch Kuch Hota Hai Bollywood Blu Ray With English Subtitles (1998)

This is probably my favorite Indian DVD. It's got the most enjoyable story you could ever watch on film. I'm glad to see that Amazon is starting to provide Bollywood films. I knew after "Lagaan", "Monsoon Wedding", and "Bend it Like Beckham" came out, people are going to want to see more Indian films.

This is a story about Rahul and Anjali, a boy and a girl who were best of friends back in college. This movie opens with a woman named Tina who is dying from a complicated birth. She asks her husband Rahul, while before she dies, to name their new daughter Anjali, and she also gives the grandmother 8 letters that she wrote to give to the newborn daughter, one letter for each year of the daughter's birthday. It is on Anjali's eighth birthday that she received the eighth letter written by her long gone dead mother. In this eighth letter, Anjali's mother Tina explained how she came into her father's life back in college and they fell in love. This love complicated a friendship between her father Rahul, and his best friend at college, a tomboy girl named Anjali. So Anjali left the college so that Tina and Rahul could be together. What little Anjali's mother wants her daughter to do is find the first Anjali and bring her back together with her father so that he will find happiness once again with his original best friend from college. This movie is a roller coaster of emotions. You will laugh and you will cry. In fact, you will probably cry twice within the first 15 minutes, but yet, you will laugh and be so engrossed into this film that you will wish you were there. It would be nice if this film had about 4 less songs because it does get a bit too musical sometimes, but the song videos do all look really colorful and classy.

This movie stars Shahrukh Khan, Kajol, and Rani Mukherjee. You will love all three of these Indian stars right away. These three stars also star together in another Bollywood film that I recommend called "Kabhi Khushi Khabhie Gham". This film is also from the director Karan Johar. To download pictures of these stars and stills from these movies, go to . To find out other movies these stars are in, go to Amazon's .

In February 2005, National Geographic did a feature and one of the headlines said, "Shah Rukh Khan is God." Check out these movies, and you will have to agree. First: Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. (Something Happens in My Heart.) There are really two movies here. There is the first part, which is at best cute and and it's worst--I'm talking about the dance in the gym scene here--downright embarrassing. But hang in there. Things are going to get much, much better.

If you have never seen a Bollywood film before, be prepared for the ride of your life. If you give this film even half a chance, you are going to experience the full range of emotions with these characters. Now, there is no way that this craziness could all come together if Kajol, Rani, and of course, Shah Rukh Khan, were not such excellent actors. If you look at the date this film was made, you will see that Kajol and Rani (real-life cousins, btw) were both quite young, and they are surprisingly good. SRK displays his range here, from goofy student to mature widower. Farida Jalal, who plays his mother, is excellent too. The little girl who plays his daughter is amazing. It can't be easy to play your first major role with the world's most popular actor.

There are a couple of reasons to take this film seriously. In the first place, we non-Desis need to start learning about Indian culture. There is a lot here that is exaggerated for the sake of making a point, and if you approach it with an open mind you are going to learn a lot. Second, millions of fans of the world's most prolific movie culture will tell you this is their favorite movie. The second part is brilliant, surreal, and amazing.

If you start with this one, go back for Dilwale Dulhania dela Jayenge. DDLJ is probably the most popular film ever made. It's ten years old, and is still in its first continuous run. With good reason: it is breathtaking. Listen to the music and you will see how cleverly it refers back to certain themes and scenes in KKHH. It's brilliant. Next, you MUST see Kabhi Kushie Khabie Gham. Here SRK is nearing the height of his powers. It will knock you out; you will have seen the progress of SRK and Kajol as actors, and at the same time seen a certain maturing of the films themselves. Kajol is an astonishing beauty of prodigious talent, but what is more, the chemistry between she and SRK is legendary. There are no comparisons in western films. Most earlier SRK films are simply awful; he usually played the thug. It is when he started this series with Kajol that he began to be taken seriously as a leading man, and no one has ever done it better.

A few years ago Kajol married Ajay Devgan and dropped out of show business to start her family. This is pretty much traditional in the Indian film industry. SRK's next leading lady was Rani Mukherjee; she is beyond amazing. Don't miss Chalte Chalte!!

Something sure happened in my heart when I discovered these amazing films. I am totally hooked!

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In my part of the world, Indian movies are a part of our common culture. Having said that, I must admit that I was never a great fan of the genre, until this movie was released.

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai has a story line that is improbable but believable, and it will make you laugh, cry, sing and dance. It follows to a point the standard formula for Indian movies, with music and dancing punctuating the story, but everything is modernised and fresh. However, even though it is set in modern times, it never forgets traditional Indian values.

Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Rani Mukerjee give the performances of their lives in this story, which tells of the true love of three friends from their teenage years to adulthood. Handsome, muscular Salman Khan makes a powerful but brief appearance.

Unlike other movies of the genre, it doesn't have the formulaic "rich girl meets poor boy and falls in love" (or vice versa) story line, nor does it have the villians plotting to steal land or money, or committing murder for personal gain. This is simply a very sweet story, with love, tragedy and comedy mixed together in a blender with great music and dancing.

If you only see one Indian movie, make it this one.

If you want more, good recommendations are "Ghulam", "Raja Hindustani", "Dil to Pagal Hai", "Pardes", "Duplicate", "Border", "Dil Se" and "Lagaan", all of which I was inspired to watch after seeing Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.

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Being a big Bollywood fan, I'll watch anything that's made in the Indian sub-continent, and once in a while a truly epic film is flashed upon my screen. I like romance movies anyway, but when they contain Indian song and dance numbers, all the better!

The movie begins with Rahul burning the body of his now deceased wife, Tina, in a traditional Indian/Hindu funeral. Then we're shown scenes of Tina's last few moments with Rahul before she dies. On her death bed she leaves 8 letters to Anjali, the little girl that she has just given birth to, one for each of her first 8 birthdays.

Fast forward 8 years to Anjali's 8th birthday as she opens her final letter. In the letter, and during the rest of this half of the movie, we're shown how Rahul and Tina met and fell in love, but the story is not so much about Tina as it is Anjali, his best friend from college that he gave up in order to be with Tina. Rahul and Anjali are both into sports pretty hardcore and are always playing against eachother and trying to beat the other. However, they are nothing more than friends.

Things are going good until the Principal's daughter, Tina shows up and Rahul falls in love with her. Anjali, realizes she has feelings for Rahul but can't bring herself to tell him. As Rahul and Tina grow increasingly closer, Anjali feels left out and her feelings for Rahul only increase. It's impossible for her to compete with Tina as Tina is beautiful, feminine, and graceful, while she is plain, boisterous, and a tomboy.

Soon the title song is performed and it is truly awesome. "Kuch Kuch Hota Hai" roughly translated means: "Something happens in my heart." This is how Rahul explains to Anjali how he will know when he's met the right girl.

tum paas aa'e, yuu.n muskaraa'e

You came near me -

tum ne na jaane kya, sapane dikhaa'e

you had no idea what dreams you revealed to me.

ab to mera dil, jaage na sota hai

Now my heart is neither awake nor asleep.

kya karuu.n haa'e, kuchh kuchh hota hai

What shall I do? Something happens (in my heart).

After dressing up for Rahul fails, Anjali tries one last time to tell him how she feels but Rahul tells her that he loves Tina before she can even say anything. She finally gives up and leaves college, no longer able to face him. This letter from Tina to her daughter, Anjali, ends with a commission: she must get Rahul and adult-Anjali to meet up again and fall in love!

Even though an hour and a half of movie has passed, we're still only half way through this baby, as most Bollywood films are about 3 hours long. Be sure to check out this classic film to see little-Anjali's attempts at making Rahul and adult-Anjali fall in love. At one point Allah himself intervenes on Anajli's behalf. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll fall in love all over again.

Oh, there is this one really great line, later on while Anjali and Rahul are playing charades, Rahul has to act out the phrase, "I love you," but he can't do it. Anjali says to him, "You couldn't do that much? We could have won." I find it really romantic because it's as if she's speaking about the 8 years they've lost.

Should I also tell you that there is a special guest star in the second half? Hint: He was also in Hum Aapke Hain Koun!

FINAL THOUGHT: I like how India still has those arranged marriages. Takes out all the hassle of going to bars and getting girls drunk.

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`Kuch Kuch Hota Hai' is a wildly popular Bollywood film from '98 starring three of the most adored Hindi stars in the business, Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Rani Mukherjee. It also includes a small but important part played by the equally popular Salman Khan.

Synopsis: There carefree college friends; Rahul (SR Khan), Anjali (Kajol) and Tina (Rani) unintentionally find themselves in a highly emotional love triangle. When Rahul and Tina become engaged Anjali leaves school and returns home never telling Rahul about her true feelings. When tragedy strikes in the marriage Rahul is left as a single parent to a young girl. Will fate arrange a chance meeting between Rahul and Anjali and if it does will romance spark where it wasn't before?

This comedy/romance contains almost all of the usually expected Bollywood gimmicks and situations overtly structured to pull on the viewers emotional heartstrings. Also like the majority of Hindi films it has a lot of interspersed silliness and slapstick moments that this genre of cinema has long been known for. While I'm becoming more and more accustomed to this wacky aspect of Indian film, for me it tends to damage the overall emotional affect of the film. That fact is made more clearly in this film than most, especially by the one-on-one basketball sequence between Shah Rukh and Kajol.

However all that aside. The music is infectious, Shah Rukh is at the top of his game, the girls are beautiful and there's no denying the wonderful talent and chemistry between these three superstars. Surprisingly, my favorite part of the film is the wedding dance at the end performed by Salman Khan. It's magnificient and worth the price of the DVD just for that one dance number.