20 Reasons Why We Loved Kuch Kuch Hota Hai Back Then

“ Kuch Kuch Hota Hai Click to look into! >> Read More... ” will always remain a cult classics of Indian cinema. One of the most influential love triangles of all time; the film has influenced the way romance is perceived and dealt with in the Indian cinema for a long time now. It is also one of those films that established Karan Johar Karan Johar is one among the top ten celebrities i >> Read More... as a storyteller and Shah Rukh Khan Shah Rukh Khan or also known as SRK is a prominent >> Read More... as the king of romance. Today, we will talk about 20 reasons that made the film so popular back then.

1. Music

The film had music that would make the hearts of even the loneliest of people flutter. All the actors, director, producer have gone ahead and improved, but Jatin Lalit Hailing from Jodhpur, Jatin and Lalit imbibed musi >> Read More... , the duo that composed the film’s soundtrack; even the track that plays in the background of Dharma Production’s audio visual was also composed by them. A film is a combination of it’s audio and visual, and the audio of the film was as strong as it can get.

2. The Best Friend Track

It is so frequent that two best friends fall in love, that people even say that a girl and a boy can never be friends. Although it is just prejudiced nonsense, the fact that the story of Rahul’s college days begins with the bond with his friend plays an important role, because everyone loves and cares deeply for their best friend, so it makes it easy to strike a chord with the audience.

3. Shah Rukh Khan

The actor was back then steadily making his way up to the top. But stealthily, he was becoming the king of romance. With names like Raj, Rahul, and so on, the actor was fast winning over the hearts of several women all over the world. He will always remain a fantastic actor, and with time, is changing and making better career choices as far the place and role of women is concerned in his films.

4. Rani Mukerji Rani Mukerji is one of the most celebrated Indian >> Read More...

The actress has taken a break from acting now because she is on a maternity leave. She married Aditya Chopra Aditya Chopra is an Indian film director, scriptwr >> Read More... and cannot appear on screen for a while due to health reasons. However, back then, the actress was among the top actresses in Bollywood. She had appeared in three films before Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, but even in those three, she had shown her capabilities as an actresses.

5. The College Track

The film connected directly with the youth when the college track entered the film. They saw their beloved actors in a place where they had been, or were in, and they saw them doing things that they do, like troubling teachers, falling in love, having secret crushes and seniors ruling the college while juniors just try to get by.

6. The Father-Daughter Duo

This is one bond that has always been special and will remain special. The child in the film has been growing up without her mother, so she is really close to her father. And her father has lost both, his wife and his best friend. So, in his daughter he sees a part of his wife who gave birth to her, and tries his best her his best friend.

7. The Double Anjalis

The first Anjali was already pretty special. But when we get to know that Rahul and Tina name their daughter after Anjali, some things become very clear. It becomes obvious that Tina knows of what was between Rahul and Anjali, which Rahul himself did not know of. Then, we also get to know that Anjali has not been entirely forgotten. Rahul misses her each day, but will not admit to it as to him it will mean that he is cheating on his dead wife.

8. A Love Triangle

A love triangle is always an intense plot point. It becomes clear that either one of the three will get their heart broken or will probably be killed off by director. Either way, no matter how heartbreaking it is, it still remain an intriguing plot as the audience is curious on who will end up together.

9. The First Love

The idea of first love has always been a pretty inflated plot. It is a significant period in any individual’s life, but in Bollywood it is made into a lot more. And the world, almost all of which has been bitten by this bug, loves the inflated version of it too. Add to that a tale of one sided love, then its failure and then the failure to move on despite rigorous attempts on the part of Anjali, and you have a blockbuster in the making.

10. Shah Rukh - Kajol Magic

Anything that we say about their chemistry has already been said before. What they share is pure couple goals on screen and friendship goals in real life. They had already worked together in some of the best films of Indian cinema, including the classic “ Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge Click to look into! >> Read More... ” and Karan Arjun Click to look into! >> Read More... , and when they shared screen space, there was no chance of a film failing.

11. Salman Khan Salman Khan is a very famous Indian actor and a pr >> Read More...

There were many other actors in the film, but Salman Khan’s presence in the film, the few minutes he has on screen seems to have added quite the spark to the film. Not only did he show his true acting abilities in that film, but his role as the gentle, loving man who sacrifices his love for the love of the one he loves added a lot to the film’s romance factor.

12. The Look

We all know how hard Karan Johar works on the look of his films. More than half the film is about the visuals that are presented to the audience after all. The bridge on which we see Shah Rukh running towards the camp in which his daughter enrolls herself, was especially built just for the film. The clothes were hand picked, and even the look of the extras had been carefully worked on.

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The actress was surrounded with the most influential people of the film industry. Two Khans, and a super sexy Rani Mukerji. Here, she was supposed to be a tomboy, and then show a transition and become the typical Indian girl conforming to all the norms of patriarchy. This also presented her true potential as an actresses.

14. Karan Johar’s Direction

Karan Johar made sure that through the film, he did not just appeal to the youth. He started off with a death scene, then turn to romance and ends by making it a family film. There is laughter in the film, there is emotion, drama and romance, which satisfied the audience, making the film so popular that even today, a lot of people admit to it being their favorite film.

15. The Dialogues

A dialogue becomes popular because of the way an actor delivers it. But for an actor to deliver something good, the dialogue needs to be substantial too and Kuch Kuch Hota Hain had some of the most memorable dialogues. So much so that even today people can be seen discussing why Shah Rukh may have uttered those lines on love. Why did he say that people fall in love only once? Was it because he knew that he was in love with both Anjali and Tina? Was it because he did not think he could replace Tina?

16. No Bad Guys

Bollywood films in general, are bound to have at least one villain. However, in this film, all problems were created by the situation, and it had no black, or even grey characters as such. Such films have a history of succeeding, if one is to consider films like “Hum Aapke Hain Kaun”.

17. The Understanding Between The Two Female Leads

Generally, when two people fall in love with the same person, there is a lot of hostility between them. However, here, as soon as Anjali realized that Rahul was in love with Tina, she stepped out of the way and tried to move on with her life. At the same time, when Tina was about to die, she left her husband to Anjali, who she knew loved him and somewhere in his heart, he loved her back.

18. The Parents

Mostly, in Indian culture, most parents are not very supportive when a boy or a girl chooses their own girlfriend or boyfriend. However, in this movie, it seemed as though we were in an alternate world altogether. The parents, right from Anupam Kher Anupam Kher is a very popular actor, director, and >> Read More... who was also supposed to be the college’s principal along with being Tina’s father, to Kajol’s parents, they were all super supportive of the choices their children make, which allows them to find themselves and the love of their lives.

19. Karan Johar

The film gave us Karan Johar as a writer and director. A lot of expectations had been put on the film, as people wanted to know if Karan Johar could do as well as Aditya Chopra, who had spread his magic through Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, the film where Kajol and Shah Rukh Khan were last seen together.

20. The Letters

Tina, who knows her pregnancy will kill her, does something very unique and heart touching. She writes letters for her daughter who is still in her womb, so that the child does not think that she does not know her mother, or does not think her mother did not love him. Also, it was important for the child to know that it was a conscious decision by Tina, and that she was not responsible for her death.