Sunday, April 27, 2008

Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham a movie of numbers of Genre


Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham in English, which means some times happiness and some times sorrow, this popular bollywood movie, released last 2001। The story and plot of the film is not different from other hindi masala movies, but for some technical and making variation make it difference from others। This was second movie directed by Koron Zohor and bollywood blockbuster character took part in this movie, like Shahrukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Joya Bachachachan, Kajol, Rani Mukharzee, Hrittik Roshon and Karena Kapoor। It was the highest grossing Indian film overseas until 2006. It climbed up to 3rd place in the British box office within two weeks of release, and maintained its place for over 3 weeks. The film was also thought to have broken the American Box Office Top 10, but this remains uncertain due to a lack of confirmed figures from the distributors.

Generally, what we see in the bollywood movie, Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham is not different from others. It's social and family traditional movie. Shahrukh Khan was adopt by Bachchan family, who is a renowned business personalities, but he was loved by the family more than their own child Hrittik. However, Shahrukh fall in love with Kajol who represent the middle class society. From than a family contradiction occurs, shahrukh married to Kajol wothout permission of family and leave for London. After end of 10 years long study in boarding younger brother Hrittik back home and found elder brother is not in the house. Therefore, this younger brother took initiative to mutual the whole contradiction. However, this is the common story of Indian subcontinent life style. However, the way the director present the whole story makes the difference.

As a sorrowful and touchy story, we see the producer invest huge money to bring the real scenario. Lights, sounds and sequence of presenting the story line up were attractive. We see in hindi masala movies directors are concuss on make up and dress up. When the story was telling in India than the directors tried to bring up the traditional arrangement of Indian subcontinent and when it was in UK than he tries to bring the real scenario of western world. The genre of Social Drama figured prominently right from the beginning of Indian cinema. Film Kabhi khushi Kabhi Gham represent this genre. Romance and eroticism have always plays a vital role in Indian movie. Here in this movie we see different sort of presenting of love. In social bond and relationship, mom and dad always play as key role and guardian of the family. The social norm and values were in the movie. Dance and song in the hindi movie always plays a vital role and set designer try to bring traditional way.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is a good post, but there is a lot of plot summary and not a lot of analysis.

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