● Bollywood Movie Review: Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006)

This controversial Bollywood movie was released in 2006. The life lesson is plain. The 4 main characters learned this lesson the hard way.

Once watched an Indian movie that was considered very controversial because of its theme. Controversial subject matter for the citizens of India, that is. A film with that kind of content is very commonplace in the USA. Nevertheless, Shah Rukh Khan, one of the main actors, was on a talk show being interviewed about it and his remarks were something to the effect:

“ Well although it was a good movie, people don’t want to say it was a good movie because … what could they say to praise it? They can’t say: ‘Oh that was such a good movie! How the lady did _________.’”

(Sorry. If I fill in the blank it would result in a spoiler. Don’t want to do that in case the reader has not seen the movie.)

Controversial or not, the movie was very successful. “It became the highest-grossing Indian film of all time overseas at the time of its release.” (Source: Wikipedia)

I have to agree with Mr. Khan’s remarks though. The plot and script were crafted to keep the viewer involved in the lives of each character all the way to the very end and the acting was really quite good. However, the truth is, in real life, usually such scenarios don’t have a happy ending where adults work out their differences and part as…