Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (
Hindi: कुछ कुछ होता है,
Urdu: کچھ کچھ ہوتا ہ') is a
Bollywood movie, released in
India and the
United Kingdom on
October 16,
1998. The title
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai can be translated as "Something is Happening". The title is often abbreviated to KKHH or K2H2.
The movie is a romance starring
Kajol and
Shah Rukh Khan.
Rani Mukerji plays Kajol's friend and rival.
Salman Khan also has a guest appearance.
The movie was the directorial debut of
Karan Johar, who also wrote the script.
The movie was extremely successful in India and overseas. It won many of the major awards at 1999's
Filmfare Award ceremony.
This was the fourth of five hits starring Kajol and Shah Rukh Khan:
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Baazigar (1993)
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Karan Arjun (1995)
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Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995)
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Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998)
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Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001)
The very popular Rahul (
Shah Rukh Khan) and the tomboy Anjali (
Kajol) are students at St. Xavier College. They are the best of friends, yet are also unmalicious rivals. They compete and often tease one another face-to-face, but maintain trust at all times.
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Rani, Shah Rukh and Kajol (l-r) in the song Koi Mil Gaya |
Tina, the principal's daughter, (
Rani Mukerji) enrolls at St. Xavier. She is beautiful, feminine, and sophisticated-- everything that the brusque Anjali is not. Rahul falls hard for Tina, which Anjali might have accepted with grace were it not for a college quiz in which the teacher (a romantic herself), challenges Rahul to define love. Rahul, unlike most, is in no doubt. As far as he knows,
love is a form of friendship. Hearing this, Anjali comes to wonder if that is true, and if it is, whether it applies to her relationship with Rahul. Feeling insecure, she decides that she is in love, and gathers her courage to tell him. However, his thoughts are with Tina, whom he finds to be more sexual. He has chosen Tina, wishing to marry her. Anjali smiles, wishes him luck and then flees college in a fit of despair.
Tina and Rahul marry. Tina dies shortly after childbirth, leaving eight letters to her newborn daughter (
Sana Saeed), who is also called Anjali. Anjali Jr. opens one letter each year. The last letter tells the child that while Rahul loved and cherished Tina, he had even deeper and stronger feelings for his first love, Anjali. Tina asks Anjali Jr. to try to reunite Rahul with his old friend. However, Rahul has refused to remarry; he has thrown himself into his work with the intensity of desperation. Anjali Jr. believes that the older Anjali can make her beloved father happy again, and decides to help her father reclaim his lost love. She soon recruits her doting grandmother as well as her grandfather (Tina's father) as accomplices.
The unlikely conspirators locate Rahul's old flame and contrive to make Rahul and Anjali meet again. Rahul soon finds old feelings reviving. However, there is a complication: Anjali has bowed to her family's wishes and is engaged to another man. Troubles ensue, but all ends well. Anjali the elder's suitor accepts that he will never gain the love that Anjali feels for Rahul. He steps aside gracefully and allows Rahul to marry his long-lost love.
Some critics have alleged that the movie takes its theme from the Hollywood movie
Sleepless in Seattle. In both movies, a young child wants a mother and goes to great lengths to find one. In both movies, the child broadcasts his/her search on television or radio .
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Shahrukh Khan and the child actress (
Sana Saeed) (who played his daughter) reprise their roles as
Rahul and
Anjali in the 2000
Salman Khan-
Rani Mukerji-
Preity Zinta movie
Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega.
* High-profile Bollywood actresses
Twinkle Khanna,
Tabu,
Urmila Matondkar,
Aishwarya Rai,
Raveena Tandon and
Karisma Kapoor were all offered the role of "Tina Malhotra" but turned it down.
Rani Mukerji, who accepted it, won her first
Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for this role.
* During the bicycle sequence in the first song of the movie,
Kajol loses control over her bike, falls, faints and injures her knee. The movie cuts shortly before that, the un-cut version is included in the DVD of the movie. Kajol says that was her favorite part of the movie even though she can't remember the incident.
* Choreographer
Farah Khan appears in two cameo appearances: in the beginning, shortly before
Shahrukh Khan's character is late for a meeting with his daughter, you can see her arguing with a man and later during the Neelam Show where she plays the girlfriend of
Nikhil Advani, the associate director, who dumps his previous girlfriend.
1998 Filmfare Awards
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Best Movie - Yash Johar
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Best Director - Karan Johar
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Best Actor - Shahrukh Khan
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Best Actress - Kajol
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Best Supporting Actor - Salman Khan
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Best Supporting Actress - Rani Mukerji
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Best Art Direction - Sharmishta Roy
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Best Screenplay - Karan Johar
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Shahrukh Khan ... Rahul Khanna
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Kajol ... Anjali Sharma
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Rani Mukerji ... Tina Malhotra
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Salman Khan ... Aman Mehra
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Farida Jalal ... Mrs. Khanna (Rahul's mom)
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Reema Lagoo ... Mrs. Sharma
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Himani Shivpuri ... Rifat Bi
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Johnny Lever ... Col. Almeida, Camp Manager
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Anupam Kher ... Principal Malhotra
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Archana Puran Singh ... Ms. Briganza
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Sana Saeed ... Anjali Khanna
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Parzaan Dastur ... Silent Sardarji
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Neelam ... Herself (Special appearance)
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Official Website Entry for Kuch Kuch Hota Hai*
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