Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna

I believe this to be one of Karan Johar's best productions! Here's why:First a synopsis of the movie. We are first introduced to Dev (Shahrukh Khan) who just won a huge soccer game and is calling his wife, Rhea (Preity Zinta) to tell her. From their exchange we can tell there is tension between the two, with Dev mentioning that he now makes more than Rhea, and Rhea apologizing for not making it to the game. Then we are moved to Maya (Rani Mukerji) getting ready for her wedding. By the look on her face we can tell there are doubts. Then we meet Rishi (Abishek Bachchan) who is talking with his father, Sam (Amitabh Bachchan), about if Maya will really marry him. So we already know these two have some doubts. On Maya's wedding day she ends up meeting Dev and they have a conversation about marriage and love and happiness. Both part ways and Maya marries Rishi, and on his way out Dev is hit by a car.We then fast forward four years to Dev limping while he is waiting for Rhea to get done with her jog. From the dialogue that takes place in the next few scenes we see how cynical Dev has become and how irate he is towards not only Rhea but his son, Arjun. We also see Maya treating Rishi like a child because she cannot have any. Dev, Rhea, Maya, and Rishi all end up meeting each otehr through a hysterical misunderstanding involving a kidnapper named "Black Beast." I found the misunderstanding seriously funny, and the one liners that Dev gives are hysterical.Fast forward a few scenes (I don't want to give too much away!). We get a taste that the movie involves an affair of some sort when Dev and Maya find Rhea and Rishi hugging each other on a busy street. The following scenes where they confront their spouses without directly saying anything about an affair are hysterical. It is extremely funny to watch all four of their reactions to the accusation. Dev and Maya then begin to form a friendship and try to help each other fix their marriage. The massage scene between Dev and Rhea, as well as the cheap stripper scene between Rishi and Maya, are so funny to watch, as both are blundering their way through trying to be better spouses. This is followed by some serious scenes after both couples celebrate their wedding anniversary. Dev accuses Rhea of being selfish and heartless for never considering him in her decisions. And Rhea accuses Dev of being insecure in the fact that she is the bread winner in the family, and that he places his failures on her shoulders. Maya and Rishi argue of the lack of intimacy in their relationship, not only physically, but emotionally as well. Intermission is preceded by Dev telling Maya that he loves her, which is what we all have known and been waiting for to happen. After intermission we see Dev and Maya engage in a relationship with each other as they struggle with their spouses and with each other. I won't say anymore because it'll ruin the story but it is fantastic.Now performances! SRK did fabulous as the cynical husband with insecurities. He is wonderful in this role and is perfect for it. Preity Zinta did a wonderful job playing a character that is not bubbly, but rather more refined and career driven. She was perfect in this role. Rani Mukerji was great as Maya who is struggling with the inner conflict of loyalty to her husband and the only family she has and her own selfishness of wanting love. I haven't seen a lot of movies with Rani so I don't know how this performance compares to her other roles. Abhishek Bachchan is fabulous as Rishi the ultra loving husband who just wants to have sex every once in a while! He adds a dose of comic relief to this ultra serious topic. And we find a kind man who loves Maya desperatley. Amitabh Bachchan also adds great comic relief with his gallivanting ways! All four main characters were perfect for their roles and the chemistry between all four was perfect. And all four can seriously cry when it's called for! And they are believeable in their roles!What I like most about this film is that it take a serious topic and gives it the appropriate attention it needs but it also has some non-serious parts (especially in the beginning). This adds flavor to the movie, and it breaks up the seriousness of the film, which I think is important in order to keep the audiences attention. Karan Johar did a fabulous job making sure that the audience would sympathize with all characters. We symapthize with Dev because he was at the top of his game when he lost it all and finally finds joy with Maya, with Rhea because she wants her marriage to work but is also trying to provide a certain lifestyle for her family. With Maya we sympathize because she is lonely and misunderstood, and finally with Rishi because he so deparately loves Maya and wants it to be reciprocated. What I liked is all characters had a part in the deterioration of their marriage. There is no one bad guy who we can put all the blame on, every character has to take a share, and every character realizes their role in this destruction. As an audience there is equal share of anger for all characters, as well as sympathy for all. An example, we have anger for Dev and Maya for toying with their spouses emotions to make each other jealous during the theater scene. But sympathy when Dev and Maya are forced to leave their homes when their spouses find out about the affair. We also have anger for Rhea because she is not there for her son or husband because she is working, sympathy when she finds out about the affair and is crying in Dev's mothers arms. Anger for Rishi because he pushes Maya past her comfort zone and pressures her into feeling guilty about a lack of intamacy. Sympathy for him when he is crying asking Maya why she did this to him when he learns of the affair.Karan did a wonderful job portraying such a serious topic on screen with dignity, grace, and a little humor. It is a fantastic movie that makes you think when it's over. I highly recommend it.

This is a very good movie, but the ending could have been written better.The story is 2 women are married to the wrong men. They should have switched husbands, and the Father knew that.The women knew they had the wrong husbands,and the husbands knew they were not making it with their wives. One husband loved to dance and party all the time,and the other wife did also. The other husband was quiet and did not like allthat partying and the other wife was the same.The wives knew that they had the wrong partner, and they should have talked anddecided to tell the husbands and decide that they needed to marry the other husband.But, they did not have the courage to do so, so they struggled.Eventually, the two quiet ones got together and fell in love, and finally broke up both marriages. It was a mess and a struggle to get it done. It could have been written much better.The wife who was married to her brother (I'll explain)should have gone to the father and told him. He was cool and very insightful. He could read the signs when no onewas talking about it. Then they should have divorced, and then married the opposite husband. Then it would have been perfect. But the writer took it thru some terrible struggles and pain and heartaches. The Father told the daughter on his death bed to divorce his son.Now, in India rules are really strange. One couple with the Father-the wife was the Father's daughter; Her family was dead and they took her in and he had the son.They don't call it adopted, but that's what she was. She married his son because hepromised her to him, but they were not blood. So he married his adopted sister. HmmmHowever, in the end, the partying husband finally remarried after 3 years, and askedhis ex-wife to be his 'best man' at his wedding. She agreed, but he then found outwhere the other husband lived, who his ex-wife fell in love with, and told her to go and get him before he leaves for London, so she can be happy in life and love too.He was a nice guy after all the mess. She ran to the train station and found himbut he was ducking her...he saw her first...and he ducked her. That was stupid,did not make any sense to me. If he was so in love with her, and still in lovewith her, then why would he not be glad to see her and embrace her, but he ran.They crossed paths right in front of each other and she did not see him, buthe saw her.She finally caught him on the train...and the train was pulling off. She calledhis name looking in his face thru the window on the train, and he just sat there. Stupid. The train finally left, and she knew she had lost him forever, and couldnot under-stand why he would not react to seeing her, just stared, dumb looking.She walked feeling hopeless and knew she had lost the love of her life; but hedid get off...he walked up behind her and called her name. They were finally reunited in their love, that started the whole breaking up of two marriages.But the writer could have written it that they divorced and married the other's husband. That would have been a more exciting, entertaining, funny & fittingending to that problem, because they were married to the wrong guys and theyneed to switch partners. That's more exciting...but...he wanted to take us thru more turmoil, and us talking back to the movie, do this, do that LOL.A good movie. You will enjoy. These bollywood movies take you thru the deepestemotions and feeling in their movies...and because they are long...whee[...]A lot of emotional exercise watching one of them. Deep emotional exercise.A MUST SEE.