KANK review – Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna movie review

by Vivek Gite · 161 comments

Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna movie  poster

I love music of this movie besides we have great stars (Rani, Abhishek, King khan etc). As usual this is a love story (and movie name starts with K .. heh).

King khan (DEV ) was a professional footballer and his career ends because of terrible accident. Preity (Reha) is wife of SRK. They have a son (oh SRK is getting old now ;) ) Arjun.

Other couple is Rani (Maya) a kid’s schoolteacher and Abhishek (Rishi) is a PR consult.

One fine day Dev and Maya meets and the love story begin. Not to mentioned this cause all sort of trouble for rest of family member.

So how all the different characters deal with this new development in their lives forms the bottom of Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna.

Cast

  • Amitabh Bachchan
  • Shahrukh Khan
  • Rani Mukerji
  • Preity Zinta
  • Abhishek Bachchan
  • Producer - Dharma Productions
  • Director by Karan Johar

Overall, it turns out a disappointment. I will give only 2 / 5 (1 for music and 1 for nice photography or whatever you call it).

Update: Most on line review (Yahoo India and CNN IBN) site has given these movie 4+ ratings. Good job Mr. Karan Johar for corrupting online site review providers. Thanks to all Indian bloggers out there. Truth is out! I will never-ever read those sites again.

Update2: Golden Movie Critic left a very nice comment below "..I hope that the DVD version has alternate endings.." I agree with commenter (anyway who is going to buy DVD ;) )

{ 161 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Tamanna April 21, 2007 at 2:48 pm

The first thin i wud like to say is that KANK is really a mess!But the songs were really grt!

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2 Zebo August 6, 2007 at 4:09 pm

i may not speak hindi but i luv shahrukh khan’s movies but this 1 was kinda worth of watching movie.

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3 KJ August 21, 2007 at 2:38 pm

Good film quite experimental and judging by some of the comments above I dont think some people are ready to deal with the subject or accept s%^&t happens everyday! But I can appreciate the more simple minded/plain stupid types will only tend to enjoy the normal lame typical song & dance rubbish with a happy ending! This is bold, brave and brilliant and probaly one of the most important films made along with rang de basanti!

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4 cristina December 18, 2007 at 12:46 pm

I think it’s a great movie. SRK is the best! HE is my favourite actor! And he is loved all over the world and in Moldova too(where I’m from)

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5 Randy_NYC February 28, 2008 at 7:18 am

Be beat the culture drum so hard every time that it first ruptures the drum leather and then the dancers ears. The movie is a different theme all together. It is a very bold subject in a modern India that is not as spiritual as all the negative reviewers are painting it to be. The story did not do justice to the great cast, but then had it gone explosive you would have had 2 police cases of domestic abuse, etc too, so the actors were very emotionally balanced.

Could KJ do a better job? Definitely. The movie on the whole is 2.5/5. In fact was the cast new I would have given it 3/5 because of the delicacy of the subject.

You need to watch this movie with an open mind, leaving the culture gene out. Infidelity is increasing in India day by day. This movie does not support it. It tells that all marriages of compromise are really bad news and in fact a sitting time-bomb. The actors are married/happy in the end as they have found love. In reality many people mistake sheer physical wants to be love, as there is no guide to fall in love.

Enjoy the movie, the songs, and the theme. Alternate ending could have been shooting the SRK and Rani, them committing suicides, never knowing the fates of each other, etc. But then we are policing the outcome again.

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6 HIMANI VERMA May 5, 2008 at 3:52 pm

SIR, CAN YOU PL. GIVE ME A LEAD ROLE IN YOUR MOVIE.IAM A BIG FAN OF YOU.

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7 janvi May 9, 2008 at 9:59 am

bundle movie

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8 sanda July 26, 2008 at 6:25 pm

that is a great movie!!

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9 Mary July 27, 2008 at 4:40 am

well I liked the movie but the story was not that very good….
every one performed well in the movie…..
the movie was good as u can rate it 4/5
Shah rukh looked very good…..

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10 AlvinGenius August 7, 2009 at 3:59 pm

this is a most movie i love it

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11 Owen Pruitt May 28, 2010 at 2:50 am

If only more than 98 people would hear this!

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