Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna : sKANK it up baby
Ever tried stretching your arms straight up for 3 hours at a stretch? Ever tried standing on one leg for more than 3 hours? Ever tried sitting in a lotus position for more than 3 hours? You did!!! HA… try this – Ever tried sitting on your two cushiony bums applying the same pressure on each of them, while forcing your out-to-pop-out-of-the-sockets eyeballs to intensely focus on watching Karan Johar’s Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna?
If you did that last one, I bet you must have experienced the following hallucination that I’ve incurred for over 2 hours after the movie was done, out, closed out of an oz life. Please email me if you have experienced the same. Your emails will be kept confidential. And you will get a secret blue envelope which will have an invitation to join the newly oz created secret community called Bum Bum Bhole.
The hallucination is this : Your body parts start talking to you. Don’t believe me? Please be my guest. Please get up, walk out and drive to the nearest theater that’s showing KANK. If you don’t get the tickets you are lucky. But you still want to dive into that disappearing hole of your misfortunes. So what do you do? You buy the ticket from scalpers a.k.a. black marketers. HA!!! Read the last 6 hours of oz’s life
12:30pm
oz at theater window : 1 ticket for KANK please.
window to oz: Skunk? We don’t have any movie by that name.
oz to theater window: Kank Kank Kank. Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna. Kank. Are you in the movie business?
window to oz: Shut up. Pay 8 bucks and get the hell in.
oz thanks the window, walks into Screen Number 6 of the only shitty theater in Southern California called Naz8, which by all the bad luck desis can get, is also the only theater in Southern California which shows desi movies.
1:00 pm
Movie starts. Camera shows fall leaves being swept away by 10,000 kilo watt fans. Titles show the story co-written by Shibani Bhatija. First panic attack. Writer of Fanaa. Middle finger looks to the index finger.
Middle finger : O Little one. Should I roll over you? It seems we are in trouble.
Index finger: No O Lambu. I have a good feeling about this.
1:45pm
So far characters have been introduced. Two sets of couples. Unhappy marriage. Unhappy situations. Unhappy tears. And unhappy eyeballs of oz.
Left eyeball of oz to the right eyeball of oz: Mother fucking son of a bitch. What stupid paaps did we commit that we were born as eyeballs for this son of a bitch.
Right eyeball of oz to the left eyeball of oz: Tell me about it. How could he? How could he? How could he fucking torture us with this SKANK?
oz to right eyeball: Hey watch your mouth. And it’s KANK not SKANK you idiot.
10 minutes later
One husband from set one and one wife from set two are brought together and there is a push from Mr. Karan Johar to create love between them. That push feels like pushing my Dad’s 1970 Ambassodor car, during my teens to jump start it. Which the car would faithfully do, each time. Unfortunately the push by Mr. Johar results in…
oz’s right Bum (thinking): Fuck Fuck Fuck. I hope he gives me some relief by moving his fucking weight to the left. (Knock Knock)
Right Bum to oz: Asshole will you move over the left. Fuck I can’t take this anymore.
Oz to RB: Screw you… (thinking: wait… that make me gay)… no forget that. You complain too much.
5 minutes later oz complies and begins to shift his weight to the left.
Left bum (thinking): Holy Mother Fucking RUN RUN RUN… He’s shifting his body weight on me. HELP ME GOD HELP ME. SAVE ME FROM THIS BUM.
oz to Left Bum: You calling me a bum? You fucking bum.
Right Bum: O WHAT A FUCKING RELIEF!!!
Left Bum to oz: Yes you bum I’m calling you a bum. What crazy mother fucking idea made you come here to watch “this” movie. Look at me!!! I feel like crap.
oz to Left Bum: Shut up and let me watch this movie you fucking bum.
2:15pm
oz’s right brain to oz’s left brain: Son of a gun. Can you imagine the crap we have to decipher for this ass?
oz’s left brain has just converted to oz’s intelligence the following scene that oz’s eyeballs have pulled in. A hamming Shah Rukh Khan standing next to a hamming Rani Mukherjee, who stands next to a look-I’m-so-lost-here Priety Zinta who stands next to Abhishek Bachchan (looking for all exit points in that scene), who stands next to I-make-the-ridiculous-look-pesticide-cool Amitabh Bachchan.
oz’s left brain to the right brain: Fuck fuck fuck. I can’t take this anymore. Did you check the scene I just converted to this moron’s intelligence?
Right brain: Dude I’m already half asleep. I pity your job.
2:30 pm
Intermission
The trailers of Kabul Express, Dhoom 2, Don bring mild relief before KANK starts again…
Left brain to right brain: FUCK DON’T JUST STAND THERE. DO SOMETHING!!!
Right brain immediately projects an image of Carmen Electra who starts taking off her clothes and looks at oz.
oz’s Mini-me: Right brain!!! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU UPTO??? I can’t do this man. I can’t expand myself.
Right brain: O Savior of all please do something. Get this ass out of the theater and to the nearest blonde out on the streets.
Mini-me: I can’t. I’m weak. This fucker has been watching so many desi movies that it’s changed me.
Right and Left brain in unison: WHAT DO YOU MEAN?
Mini-me: I used to be a big tall thick Bamboo when I was attached to this moron.
Right and Left brain in unison: So what are you now? You still look like his dick you prick. Get up and save us from this SKANK.
Mini-me: Alas my brothers… years of watching shitty movies with this ass has changed me. I am now no longer the big thick tall bamboo. Yes my brothers. I have changed. Years of watching shitty movies has transformed me into a… toothpick.
Right brain, Left brain, Right bum, Left bum, Eyeballs, fingers, hair, ears all cry out of shock in unison: TOOTHPICK!!!! And we thought you HAD THE BEST MOMENTS OF US ALL!!! FUCK WE ARE SCREWED.
oz to his body parts: WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS COMMOTION ALL ABOUT?
oz’s left bum pleading to oz: O Master!!! I beg you. I plead to you. Pray, please do shift you weight to the right. I can’t take it anymore.
Meanwhile somewhere before or after the interval, Abhishek Bachchan screams - Why does my wife not want to sleep with me? WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY….
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO - Those are the screams of the right bum as oz shifts all his weight on the right.
Left Bum: O fucking – what a relief.
Right Bum: You asshole. He wouldn’t have moved if you hadn’t said so. How much more time to go?
Left Brain: Umm… looks like another 90minutes.
Right Bum: FUCK MAN… I’m screwed.
Eyeballs suck in the image of the entire lead cast sitting on the dining table where the joke is that the husband from couple one is having an affair with the wife from couple two, which he actually is, but it is a joke, though it actually is true but others think it’s a joke, but the husband from couple one and the wife from couple two, know it is a reality, still they smile because it is a joke, because for others on the table it is a joke but for them it is a reality which they are projecting as a joke which others on the table don’t know it is a reality projected on the dining table as a joke but….
Left Brain: I GIVE UP FUCK IT FUCK IT FUCK IT… I GIVE UP.
oz taps head: Hey hey hey… come one the scene is moving ahead. Interpret it will ya?
Right Brain to left brain: I feel your pain.
Left brain to right brain: Can’t you do something here like… trying to get mini-me up?
Mini-me: LEAVE ME OUT OF THIS SHIT. YOU THINK IT IS EASY SITTING ON THIS PRICKLY SEAT WATCHING THIS DICK OF A MOVIE????
Left Brain: So what do you think? My job’s easy here? How much more time left?
Right Brain: Looks like another hour to go
Right Bum: ANOTHER HOUR… SOMEBODY HELP ME. I CAN’T CARRY THIS SHITTY WEIGHT FOR ANOTHER MINUTE… I’M GONNA ASK OZ TO MOVE OVER…
Left Bum to Right Bum: Mercy Mercy Mercy!!! Have pity on me oh right bum. Fuck look at me. I look like a crumpled piece of shitty paper. Please please please don’t ask oz to move his weight on me… I’m begging you…
Right Bum: FUCK YOU!!! OZ MOVE TO THE LEFT… I CAN’T BEAR YOUR WEIGHT ANY MORE….
Cries of left bum heard all over the theater – NO NO NO NO NO NO NONOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO KARAN JOHAR YOU FUCKING AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
oz’s left eyeball to right eyeball: Ever imagine if we could replace this whole movie and make it look like porn? Atleast that would save us and the poor fellows attached to oz.
Right eyeball to left: If I had hands I would have slapped you. Could you just shut up and let me concentrate on sucking in more trash. Fuck… I think I’m going to throw up… Did you see that?
Left eyeball (flabbergasted): Holy Shit. This is the end of the world. Shah Rukh Khan is humping Rani Mukherjee.
Mini-me: Let me see let me see!!!!!! oz open your zipper!!!!
oz opens zipper. Mini-me takes one look at the screen. Screams – DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMED FOREVER.
Left and Right brain in unison: What happened???
Mini-me: I was a bamboo, got demoted to a toothpick. FUCK THIS SRK-RANI Sex scene has now shrunk me to a grass needle. FUCK I CAN’T EVEN SEE MY SELF I’VE GOT SO THIN… SOMEBODY HELP ME… I’M SHRINKING!!!!
3:38pm
That folks was the tragedy I suffered for the last 4 hours.
I’ve had to quickly write up this warning, sorry, review before hitting the nearest bar and drowning my sorrows in hard alcohol which I hardly touch. But tonight. No one comes between me and the bottle.
If Self Indulgence could be measured on a scale then that scale will have Karan Johar and his passionate product KANK right up on the top.
Indulging in gawky sets, to dresses to pancake makeup, to battle ready eyeliners, - the only thing missing is an itsy bitsy tiny thing - called a story. The camera work is just about average. Editing, somebody please explain, why it gets so jumpy. Dialogues – I pray my mom and dad never get to hear it. eg: Father to Son “Call Girls call me” - and that is supposed to be a funny line.
Screenplay – From slow to very slow to tortoise slow to sudden change in events to slow to slowest to running the marathon to slow – in short – it would be a huge battle to even read it, if a copy of the script be placed in your hands.
This is Karan Johar at his worst. They say successful directors reach a peak from where it’s very difficult to escape the clutches of the vanity of self indulgence. One truly believes that statement after watching KANK.
Of the cast, one may argue Amitabh is the saving grace – with his 15 minute role. I disagree. The comic relief provided by him may get a few smiles simply because it stands up against a mountain of drag. Transfer these Amitabh moments to a regular fluffy comedy of recent times and they may appear to be scenes of tragedy. But the energy input in trying to etch out the reality of a extravagant man, to best is passable at Amitabh’s end.
Priety Zinta’s been given a raw deal. It’s as if Karan Johar lost all interest midway through her character development. Zinta at best comes out as a Bindu of 2006.
Rani Mukherjee tries hard to make some of those pretty outrageous scenes completely believable. In spite of having a lot of screen time, all she is given is to turn up on screen with tears or with a grumpy look. Plus the zing and magic first seen in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai is completely missing. And I’ve yet to make up my mind on her S&M comic scene - should I laugh or should I simply pass out?
SRK is SRK. He’ll hop, ham, hiss to the best of his abilities. Surprisingly some of the scenes like the ones between him and his son are one of his best, which he effortlessly executes with on the dot sensitivity.
But in the end it’s Abhishek Bachchan, who musters all the courage and with great bravado, rises far above his role. You can see that after some point, Johar fell in love with the sacrificial lamb and eggs Bachchan up to give all he has got. And Bachchan doesn’t fail, which sadly can’t be said about the film.
D Plus. Consume half a truck of vitamins, proteins and minerals before entering the theater to watch this Skank Kank.
August 11th, 2006 at 11:40 pm
Oz boss ….. Howlarious =))
Just one suggestion… next time ur gonna see a movie which u know sucks (oh cummon what did u expect??? an Omkara ??? that too from someone WHO WROTE FANAA)…..BOOZE AND THEN GO to see the movie. Trust me u’ll enjoy urself much much more …..
I was laughing all throught the scenes of a crying SRK (NO GIRLS !!! SRK MIGHT BE HANDSOME BUT HE CANT ACT FOR NUTS), Priety zinta …. AB Sr.
I didnt even laugh that much watching Golmaal that I did last night for KANK at the stupidity of the film.
An hours drinking Alcohol is highly advised before seeing KANK. Otherwise u may have to do it after the movie …(like Oz bhai)
August 12th, 2006 at 12:12 am
Bum bum bhole Community =))
Kya Oz bhai ….. kuch bhi ????
Im laughing as im posting this comment ….
By the way kajol shows up for like 2 mins in the film and wow …she looks hot !!!! That was i guess the best part about the movie
August 12th, 2006 at 7:54 am
[...] Oz at Desitrain believes this is Karan Johar at his self indulgent worst : If Self Indulgence could be measured on a scale then that scale will have Karan Johar and his passionate product KANK right up on the top. [...]
August 12th, 2006 at 11:04 am
- Kartik, Dude… seriously. I have a massive hangover this morning and I’m not sure if it’s from the Bacardi and Coke or KANK… Already on to my 16th ~o) since waking up
August 12th, 2006 at 11:31 am
:))
August 12th, 2006 at 1:57 pm
I swear,the movie was seriously bad.On top of that,the coke i had wouldn’t let me sleep.Wish KJo had focussed more on Abhishek and Preity who along with the Big B made this movie somewhat bearable.SRK and Rani have only affirmed the fact that they are over-rated.
Nice camera-work though.And great music.
Hope that Don etc are atleast bearable.
Taran Adarsh has proved that he is an idiot with his review for this movie
August 12th, 2006 at 5:18 pm
Adarsh is not into reviews. He is doing business. Look at all the new release websites, they are mostly done by Indiafm
August 12th, 2006 at 6:57 pm
Oz Boz… mann u made my day. i am gona take a print out of this and load it on to my mobile and read it outloud in the theater. i will have to watch it … i dont have any choice…
but atleast i know i am going to get myself into torture chamber..atleast will die smiling…
August 12th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
Imagine coming to work on a sunday.. to compensate for one holiday on Septmeber…. i was expecting some respite before opening desitrain… man u more that made up ….bamboostick to toothpick to grass needle….. hahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahah
srk humping rani.. was there karan johar in between to act as a conduit…. ;)
August 13th, 2006 at 2:43 am
oz bhai!!
u r just superb when it comes to screwing these assholes!!
Can u tell me which is fu..king shibani bhatija’s next movie…..
August 13th, 2006 at 8:30 am
too good a review :)
August 13th, 2006 at 8:48 pm
When you put up your list of forthcoming 2006 release KANK was right up there in my NOT to watch list. And now I have confirmation. Thanks Oz for saving me time & money!!!
August 14th, 2006 at 3:27 am
u r bang on target… it was silly, stupid, unimaginative, … i have no words to describe it further.
The supposed comic scenes…( like the black beast) was like a series of PJs stringed together.
A subject like extra marital affair can be handled so sensitively, this was crass…
August 14th, 2006 at 3:46 am
And guys u know what the most ironical/ frustrating thing is ???
All said and done SKANK would become a bigger hit than a film like omkara.. :((
Courtsey SRK and Karan Johar’s Market value. the songs…the locations …etc etc ..
Bull crap !!! Seems like something is seriously wrong not just with bollywood but also with the film going audiences. Its all a game of 3:-o versus 3:-o
Here’s an article on the same by anurag kashyap…. Its a little dated …but pretty relavent nevertheless …
http://india.eu.org/1650.html
August 14th, 2006 at 10:50 pm
I was so waiting for this film. First reason for “Abhi”, second reason for the subject matter, third for the star cast and finally to see what Karan is upto.
I am glad my first reason paid 100% rest all failed miserably. I want to give some free editing and scriptwriting classes to Mr.Johar. No grip over the characters and subject. No sense but lot of nonsense.
Script was so loose, audience were not able to relate to characters. The infedility reasoning was so stupid and unreasonable. Everything looked like Kintergarden drama.
Can anyone find out how much did Taran Adarsh get to write that review?
August 15th, 2006 at 2:07 am
Ama mia,
aap tho waise ke waise hi hain! Seriously, i was thinking this was going to be a nice movie (give or take a few tears and laughs). Even Rajiv Masand(IBN) who i thought would come out with a real ‘review’ fell flat. Damn, its’ pathetic even critics fall for it.
Anyways after this review i don’t want to take my bums, eyeballs, and most of all the ‘dumb’ mini me to a talk-show. Seems like yours were in Oprah.
Thanks for the review.
August 15th, 2006 at 8:04 am
maybe they should just rechristen this movie as Kabhi Yeh Movie Naa Dekha….it was a headache that I bought for myself…
http://fenderbender.wordpress.com/2006/08/15/kabhi-alvida-naa-kehna-kabhi-yeh-movie-naa-dekhna/
August 18th, 2006 at 7:21 am
Apart from the fact that his movies are made on gargantuan budgets, Karan Johar does so well because his films are saturated with homosexual undertones. The excruciatingly long scenes of grown men crying in each others arms, the motif of sterility that is manifested through unsuccessful marriages in which the wives refuse to sleep with their husbands, the list goes on. To the many people living in rural india who cherish the rare opportunity to watch such a film, it is a tacit representation of realities of disproportionate sex ratios, male chauvenism, and the fact that ultimately, what results is one big sausage fest. No wonder Indian women can’t get enough of KJ! :d
August 18th, 2006 at 3:04 pm
- DFC, Homosexual undertones??? @-) You sure watch his movies under a microscope dude… :-j
August 21st, 2006 at 10:31 am
=))
I loved Abhishek too :)
August 29th, 2006 at 8:59 am
Brother,
My body parts feel the pain of your body parts!
I haven’t laughed this hard in ages.
Thanks
ObserverEccentric
September 21st, 2006 at 9:26 pm
-:Kabhi Alvida Na Kahna; Is it not with you? :-
A lot of hip-hop and blah blah, that’s 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.
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, the comments are coming in the similar ways. In fact, I was a little scared about writing on the same as even my best friend was very angry on it although she was the greatest fan of SRK movies usually. Anyway, coming to the point, the movie, its feel and character.
The question is that what message this movie is giving to public? Is it to break their traditional relations just for the sake of their some fantasies created by such movies and literatures? Or to cheat the persons, who are very much devoted to you, and might be finding the ways to please you and you are finding the ways to come out of relations? Are they trying to give the bad image of Indian community and the new generations?
My answer is something different as usual. According to me, there was really no direct message for the mass, there was no solution but it was the presentation of situations and a raised question. Is this really far from our life? Is this really a movie for overseas mass and has no touch to our traditions? Why people are so scared that they are refusing that they even have watched the movie or watched only the first part? Why are they scaring others not to dare to watch the movie? A movie with Shahrukh, Abhishek, Priti and Rani; and ofcourse with their best acting performances and you say that the movie is the worst ever. Definitely there is something.
In almost each serial being telecasted on small screen, there are more than enough extra-marital affairs, but we knew that they have not that large audience, so we were ignoring till yet, but this time thing was scaring us.
Personally I found the movie excellent and giving the right kind of message with perfect presentation. A lot of movies have been on the same topic but in their presentations, there were some common points. They were showing the relations, in which one sides were a little wrong or just ignorant and the other side people getting into in these extra-martial affairs were feeling guilty and finally the story was ending with making them back to their original relations.
But this time, there was neither guilt feeling nor the happy (?) ending in traditional style. What the hell they are thinking to define? I am not coming to the conclusion that I have planned to write in the last part of the Article.
Ok! I am starting from the positive points of movie. It presents the best situations that you may loose your partner, even if you are always enough flexible to be changed to hold your partner tide up with you. How it could happen and why? We are watching movie and feeling that there were mistakes by Dev and Maya most of the time; they were looking out of their marriages not Rishi and Riya. But if we really think so then we will not be able to stop the things like this. It is reality and ignoring problems do not solve them. Find the solutions and think that could we do something more than that what Rishi or Riya did to save their marriages, to make their marriages succeed. Do we have no solutions really?
Dev; a person, who is highly emotional and want to be the best to help and care others and trying to spread joy and happiness all over, always smiling and making people smile, caring people even if they are just strangers. Do you know no one wants to care about others from inside; they do care for others because from somewhere inside, they need the same thing back to them. We try to be ideal to others so that may find someone, who may care for us and could feel us, when we are not saying anything and just smiling. Problem is that they attract people like Dev might have made Riya attracted towards him in his college life, which were impressed by their ways thinking that the person will take care of them. But answer me; was he looking for a person whom he could care of? There might be already many friend with whose problems he was already messing up not expecting anything back to him. Doesn’t he has the right to expect someone more caring for him, something rewarding his attitude towards life till yet?
The story started when Dev was already married from last five years. A final football match of Dev and a turning point of career for Riya. Dev missing her Riya, who I am sure was an active one in his matches in old days but not getting time now for the only visible thing that Dev likes. Riya missing her best friend, who was sure caring and encouraging in her old days for her career. Tell me who was mistaking? From these all things, most of us missed one thing, which was being felt by Dev, it was their wedding anniversary and what he got from Riya, just a last line of conversation saying “Anyway, Happy Anniversary, Dev†and then the phone was disconnected without hearing that what Dev might have planned for the day. A lot of people are making just another means of his shit. But just think that how come that man could miss the day, because when someone becomes happy then he relates it with all the good things happened at the same day. For him the moment was most precious and what he got just a casual wishing, even if she was not working just was coming after an interview and now was free and was going to pick her boy from school but the wish came in with an “Anyway†and that too was not expecting anything back to her. Was not that enough to make someone feel that she was trying to make him feel that only she cares and he forgot everything.
He gave her the biggest gift as much he was best capable to give, a five million contract, his dream, which was known by Riya too but there was no one to celebrate with him one of the best moment of his life, his anniversary and his dream day. But even this was not enough to make his feelings be cared by his love, if it was really love.
Just think about the man, who lost his leg and so career, when he was at the biggest turn of his career, a five millions contract. Do you know what that was meant to him? After that he was the leading one in his family and then he was for the first time about get the thing after which he was able to answer everyone about him and his career. Moreover after that there was a possibility to get his love back to him as probably then she will get time for him and his only child on whose birth, he was the happiest an on the earth. He was just wishing rights without caring the others as was knowing that he was already much caring. He just smiled with tears when Riya said that he hates his failure in life and almost explained everything what was in his mind with the thanks for letting him stay in her house. When he was saying that the biggest failure in that house was their own relation then it was not meant to say that this was due to Riya. When we say something with a smile on face and with only few not coming out tears in eyes, then it does mean that we are loosing hopes for anything. At that time no one could expect anything positive from that person as the one is unable to give anything to even himself. Dev was in same state, thinking a lot and reviewing a lot of things, loosing himself for making everything right according to Riya even if was at the cost of his own character which was the only ideal for him as he was even wishing to see the same character in her own son. Right then there was the last string of hope.
But ………
Maya; A girl who likes that someone make her feel that she has something, who likes that there should be someone, who may make her laugh without feeling embraced that what people will say. A girl, who used to be quiet all over and only thinking and thinking, but wont be like that all over. She just wants to live her own life as she watches in movies and novels. A girl who want to live with all the beauty of nature, want to feel each and everything that might be coming in a relationship. She is just tired of being cared and really wanted to make her life moving on her own ways. A girl, who lost her parent in her childhood and then were living with the help of Rishi and his father, started to teach little children as was thinking to be independent and as was not from any technical backgrounds because of money problems I think, so there was no other option than teaching. But she was always feeling that something is missing and she is not living a life as someone happy should live.
Three year; a total of three years were taken by her to say yes to marry Rishi. In which way she grown up, things are getting so obvious for her. Like it was looking obvious to everyone that she will marry Rishi and Rishi will propose her some day. She just hated to be so obvious but what option she was having? To refuse Rishi? Why? There was not any fault of him. Why she was not feeling that special thing for him? Everything was just like 2+2=4. She was asking for her own life, but it continued in the same way as her childhood was. She was not expected to be that much quiet; she wants to talk but feels her so constrained in everything. In straight way, she was never wishing that Rishi may fall in love with her, she was thinking to go much much away from Rishi and her father, not because she don’t like them but because she was thinking to live on her own. But she was not thinking to hurt them. It was a kind of Ehsaan feeling that was making herself away from her and she was getting inside and away from whole world, parties and friends, that’s why never tried to make friends from her side.
The best bad thing with her happened that she was not able to have child of her own. As much you will try to do not make her realize, she will find ways to feel the pain. She was wishing to be with someone, who has his own life and nature and who don’t really show her that he cares for her, just care from his inside and rest all the time, he might be behaving unserious and making her too. She just wanted to live life for world and without caring anyone. She did not like only cleaning as even Dev said her Wafadar Jamadar. But it was a way to make her busy and away of thoughts as she was always saying to herself that everything is fine. You are having a perfect loving husband, what else you need more?
Just think about the statement when she said that “Tum meri kis duniya ka hissa ho, Rishi†and he answered “Tum ghar saaf karma chahati thiâ€. Just think how disappointed she was as a clean house in not her priority at all, she was expecting something else which her partner may figure out on his own. Just think what she said to Dev at that raining day “Jo mujhe samajh sake, samajha sake, mere halaat pahchan sakeâ€, everything of her was in those words. She was wishing to live an informal life, in which her partner might use abusive words about others means totally careless about her female existence and the best if he really care for her feelings from inside without expressing and always knowing when she is needing something. There was something, which was not even known to Maya herself that somehow she was now a teacher from her inside means one habitual of caring others not being cared. She was needed a careless partner not the one who care for her as according to her, she was just the perfect one to care someone, if given the chance. She was wishing to change her personality completely means wishing to be a part of the crowd but there was no way till she was with persons between whom she has grown up. I don’t know that she was right or not.
But ………
Rishi; He is really a character from every one of us, most of the viewers were having sympathy for him and sometime even I thought that one should. A boy, grown up with very much emotional, sentimental and understanding father. Someone who really know about the things and feelings. From the start of the life, he learned to take the responsibility and caring others as even having enough feeling and sense of responsibility towards him, his father was a bit away from traditional father. Rishi has seen a girl from his childhood and was always curious to know about her as much as possible but she was a mystery for him from all those years. Whenever he might have thought about love, only one name was coming in his eyes. He finally named his curiosity as the traditional one. He was thinking to care for her wife as much he could. But from the first day, she was abnormal for him, sometime he thought that he understand her, sometime, he thought he not.
When we like someone then sometime we talk with her that much which even she might not be knowing, as everything might be happening in our thoughts. We smile, laugh and cry in that world and pose our loved one as the best one doing everything, which we wish, he/ she actually should do. He was trying hard to get her and even then he was not getting her. Really, it is a troubling situation for me or anyone else, that what to do in this stage? One way is never talking to her on the same issue and always talking to her on various issues other than likeness of her and another way was to be away from her with happy smile without making her feel that she is doing something wrong to him.
But right now, even I am not sure that what was the right solution? The only mistake done by Rishi was that he was looking for the things which were just visible to him; perhaps he was not capable for looking the things in a complete perspective. He never come to understand that what exactly Maya was wishing for. He tried almost all the ways to show that he loves her but when the same words, even if they are much much true and sincere, come to someone’s way almost everyday, then they come to loose their feel and touch. There were the words, the touch but nothing was touching Maya’s heart. Although he was knowing that too and at his side, he tried his best to touch
But ………
Riya; I don’t know while presenting career oriented girls/boys, why the story writers come to be a bit rude. She started with her introduction with the words that “Meri personal life aur professional life dono alag alag haiâ€. Many smart and practical people will come to angry with me, if I comment something bad on her attitude. Perhaps I have something to say or I haven’t anything. She was sexy, confident and smartest or almost the best for her career. In fact, while making our career and professional works, it is obvious that we come to miss some responsibilities but there is blade edge balance between the things, don’t forget. She was just perfect for everyone except the one whom she loved most and because of her busy schedules, she never come to find the actual reasons but was just being irritated. Even if she was trying her hard but her smiles and nature which was outside was not inside her home. Yes! Dev was much more rude and irritating with her but was there no way else?
There are always two ways; one easy and one which may seem impossibly hard. Obviously, we come to choose the easy way most of the time, after failing many times from passing through the difficult way and this makes the difference between normal and great people. For her there were two ways, one way was to make her busy in a life where everyone was admiring her and the another way was trying to change the attitude of her partner, who was looking like a kind of being away from her.
She was just given up because she was not finding anything wrong from her side. She was thinking that her all best efforts are never going to make her husband realize that how much hard wok, she do to take care of the family and him, how much care she is showing to him in that way. She was thinking that when she is not only just more than average but almost the best for each one outside her home, then why everything was wrong, when she was coming back to home in every eve.. And when Dev needed her besides his all irritations, she was just giving up and was happy in making herself busy. Sure, people will have sympathy towards her and I am too.
She was even much much more reliable and honest towards the relations than all the three other characters but she was not wishful to express the same as was thinking that other side should understand, because that was the reason for which she loved Dev in the beginning as he was understanding without even hearing any words from her side. She just thought that his husband is jealous and is in complex. Yes! He was feeling complex, but she never got an effective way to remove that and even I am not sure that I could give any solution.
Her husband was just needing that sometime she may give time to him and family on the cost of career sometime. He was just some selfish for a while. He always knew that she is doing all the good things for him, but when he never expresses his other feelings, then why come he will express his admirations for her? His way was different to show his care and one of which was that five millions contract, which he come to loose unfortunately. Riya really tried hard but she was just loosing the end of string. She was a perfect one to be wife of almost anyone.
But ………
Do you know overall what the problem with everyone was? Everyone was trying to be the perfect and in relations, sometimes and in fact not sometimes, but every time, it is necessary to make the other side feel that he/she is perfect. And we do not need to show this by saying to them or caring to them but in a way, they could not realize that we were praising and admiring them. Winning someone’s heart is not so difficult and does not need a lot of literature kind of words nor the big and romantic surprises, it just need little things, which may make your breaths stopped for a while and heart beating. Understanding someone every time is never easy as human kind is always the lazy and no one wants to put his/her professional time into thinking, but do you think that it is really impossible to understand people?
Yes!! You loose yourself so many times in this battle to know someone but if you give up then you will never ever get the same thing back to you.
Above all the allegations against this movie, this is a best presentation of thoughts and situations and moreover with the best selection of culture and nature of characters. It was the first attempt to show that you may loose even if you are the best. It is the ground reality of breaking marriages in now days; never think that it is not with you.
A lot of questions and a lot of things, but note that I am not giving up. Really have a lot to say but all that will be only one side. So, need to hear from other people that where I am missing the things. See, I admit that even I could not live all the four characters, so can’t explain them completely, so yours comments are invited to make this discussion complete.
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I really have a lot more to say… common
October 14th, 2006 at 10:48 am
Saw KANK last night (on DVD). Glad I didn’t spend the time or money in the theater. And the movie could have done with about 45-60 min less, BUT - its not as bad as some have made it out to be.
Abhishek’s is the most sympathetic character, and he’s played it v well. I’ve been there - married to someone I loved, but who married me by default rather than passion and then was not happy and finally opted out and said ‘this can’t work’. And therefore I think the movie tells a believable story - as Amitabh says ‘ye adhoore rishte kisi ko khush nahi kar sakte’. Shah Rukh’s character is believable too - the man who used to be a star who’s had to make compromises in life.
Overall, a movie that makes you wonder - what is the right thing?
September 10th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
:d
I almost fell out of my chair .. laughing ..