Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham is a Bollywood film released in India and countries with large NRI populations on December 14, 2001. Its popularity was pre-determined by virtue of possessing many of the biggest names in the Bollywood film industry: Amitabh Bachchan, his wife Jaya Bhaduri, Shah Rukh Khan, and his frequent co-star Kajol (who had announced she would retire after the movie), along with rising stars Hrithik Roshan and Kareena Kapoor. This was also director Karan Johar's follow up to the immensely popular Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. The film was the first Bollywood feature to see a theatrical release in Germany with German subtitles.The story starts with a flashback to earlier, happier times that went astray, and then shows the characters working to right things out. This basic plotline, and many of jokes and characters within, are directly lifted from Kuch Kuch Hota Hai - for instance, Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol were not only the romantic leads in both movies, but they play characters with the same names. However, masala romances don't exist for the fresh, original plotlines, and in other regards Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham excels. The actors are charismatic, the soundtrack by Sandesh Shandilya and brothers Jatin Pandit & Lalit Pandit, (with Adesh Shrivastava composing the single "Shava Shava") is excellent, and the art direction is colorful, glossy, and dream-like, with elaborate sets and massive dance sequences, often done in beauiful hues of red and gold.
One noticeable aspect of the movie is that the latter half takes place principally in London, where several of the characters are supposedly studying to earn their MBA at Oxford. While the use of foreign locations has been relatively common since being popularized in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, this movie, along with Kal Ho Naa Ho, ranks as one of the most amusing blendings of Bollywood sensibilities and a foreign setting.
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Variations on the title
This movie also goes by the title Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... due to the vagaries of Romanizing the Hindi language. Marketing for the movie also uses the title KKKG or K3G. The title translates in English into "Sometimes Happiness, Sometimes Sadness."
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