Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna (KANK) or Alvida Keh Do Na

OK, KANK is not as bad as to say, please alvida keh do naa! Indeed, the movie is a good timepass.

So it has a borrowed story from an English movie, not much originality is left in the world these days. Two marriages, one made on love, the other part-love and part-obligation. As usual the female is obliged to marry – the poor Indian woman!

Both couples find that their marriages are not working. An accidental meeting randomly begins an extramarital affair between the woman (Rani Mukherjee) of a couple and the man (Shah Rukh Khan) of another. Eventually, what is a Hindi movie without a happy ending?

Anyhow, now I’m going to be critical. Amitabh Bacchan was equivalent to shit in this movie. It is quite confusing if he tried to appear too cool or too stupid, perhaps both. He has a fondness for white women and is explicit with them in front of his son and daughter-in-law, and that too with great pride. Did the director think the West is as depraved as himself? Does he think that fathers in the West routinely flaunt prostitutes in front of their children? Amitabh Bacchan was just disgusting.

The other aspect I didn’t like about the film was the eternal guilt involved in Rani’s and Shah Rukh’s affair. In the beginning they are only meeting as friends and laughing a lot. Once they discover that they love each other, thereby being unfaithful to their spouses (Abhishek Bacchan and Preity Zinta respectively), they stop laughing. They are now plagued with this massive cloud of guilt that descends on the movie hereafter.

Hello! Once you know you are unfaithful, you should at least enjoy the extramarital relationship instead of making life miserable to everyone around you. Instead, they decide to have sex and go to a hotel chained with guilt. Rani Mukherjee lies like a block of wood on the bed while Shah Rukh is making love to her – such extreme scenes can only been seen in poorly directed Bollywood movies. And they later divorce their respective spouses but then tell each other of a happy life, so both of them are misled. So this means that Abhishek and Preity move on with their lives while Rani and Shah Rukh are stuck with eternal guilt.

The movie could easily be named “Guilt”. But the whole idea of an extramarital relationship is that you enjoy at least that one in your life, because the one at home is not enjoyable. Therefore, Karan Johar has got the entire idea wrong in his head.

Good timepass, excellent acting by wonderful actors, needless to say. Great story, but could have been dealt with in a much better way. Only Amitabh and the eternal guilt ruin the experience.

What’s your verdict?