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Everything is stereotyped – relationships are perfect, lives are perfect….

It is like a penny romance with no real deep meaning – I hate when that happens to what otherwise has the potential to be a good film. What I did not like about Kuch Kuch Hota Hai – 1. The rest of the film deals with Rahul meeting Anjali again only to find her with another man in her life, and how the story gets resolved to give us the obligatory happy ending. Tina dies in childbirth but leaves letters for her daughter asking her to make sure Rahul and Anjali hook up again as she felt that she came between the true love they had for each other. Rahul confesses to his best buddy his love for Tina and Anjali leaves the scene and goes away. Rahul feels the attraction (lust?) for Tina and at the same time Anjali discovers that she loves Rahul, but has no wiles to attract him. Then a young, different, attractive young woman Tina (Rani in an excellent hottie role) arrives on the scene and the mixture gets stirred up. There is lots of friendship but not much attraction on either side. What is the most important factor in love? Is it lust or is it friendship? SRK plays Rahul (the continuation of his DDLJ Raj persona) whose best buddy is the tomboy Anjali (Kajol in a tomboy Simran persona). It is quite fitting that a young director of 26 yrs would want to explore romantic relationships in the environment of young folks in a college setting.

They helped Karan sort out a rather muddled story and had their way with the character development for the most part. Rumors are that the film was actually the brainchild of Kajol and SRK who had worked with Karan on Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge and believed that KJo had it in him to direct good films. The ensemble cast consisted of highly popular or young and upcoming stars like Shahrukh Khan, Kajol, Salman Khan and Rani Mukherjee. This is a film from an era before he got into big cinema and expatriate Indians. Kuch Kuch Hota Hai is Karan Johar's first foray into understanding relationships in the Indian family context.