Product Details

• Actors: Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Rani Mukerji, Farida Jalal, Reema Lagoo
• Directors: Karan Johar
• Writers: Karan Johar
• Producers: Hiroo Johar, Yash Johar
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English, Hindi
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Yash Raj Films
• DVD Release Date: October 14, 2003
• Run Time: 177 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000AZT4W
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #85,448 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Kuch Kuch Hota Hai" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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45 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Starring Rani Mukherjee, the most beautiful actress ever!, December 23, 2003

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Rykre "The Rogue Scholar" (of the vast Western Dystopian Wasteland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (Bollywood Movie / Indian Cinema / Hindi Film) (DVD)

This is probably my favorite Indian DVD. It's got the most enjoyable story you could ever watch on film. I'm glad to see that Amazon is starting to provide Bollywood films. I knew after "Lagaan", "Monsoon Wedding", and "Bend it Like Beckham" came out, people are going to want to see more Indian films.

This is a story about Rahul and Anjali, a boy and a girl who were best of friends back in college. This movie opens with a woman named Tina who is dying from a complicated birth. She asks her husband Rahul, while before she dies, to name their new daughter Anjali, and she also gives the grandmother 8 letters that she wrote to give to the newborn daughter, one letter for each year of the daughter's birthday. It is on Anjali's eighth birthday that she received the eighth letter written by her long gone dead mother. In this eighth letter, Anjali's mother Tina explained how she came into her father's life back in college and they fell in love. This love complicated a friendship between her father Rahul, and his best friend at college, a tomboy girl named Anjali. So Anjali left the college so that Tina and Rahul could be together. What little Anjali's mother wants her daughter to do is find the first Anjali and bring her back together with her father so that he will find happiness once again with his original best friend from college. This movie is a roller coaster of emotions. You will laugh and you will cry. In fact, you will probably cry twice within the first 15 minutes, but yet, you will laugh and be so engrossed into this film that you will wish you were there. It would be nice if this film had about 4 less songs because it does get a bit too musical sometimes, but the song videos do all look really colorful and classy.

This movie stars Shahrukh Khan, Kajol, and Rani Mukherjee. You will love all three of these Indian stars right away. These three stars also star together in another Bollywood film that I recommend called "Kabhi Khushi Khabhie Gham". This film is also from the director Karan Johar. To download pictures of these stars and stills from these movies, go to www.IndiaFM.com . To find out other movies these stars are in, go to Amazon's www.IMDb.com .

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beginner's Guide to Bollywood, April 8, 2006

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Plein Jane (new england) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (Bollywood Movie / Indian Cinema / Hindi Film) (DVD)

In February 2005, National Geographic did a feature and one of the headlines said, "Shah Rukh Khan is God." Check out these movies, and you will have to agree. First: Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. (Something Happens in My Heart.) There are really two movies here. There is the first part, which is at best cute and and it's worst--I'm talking about the dance in the gym scene here--downright embarrassing. But hang in there. Things are going to get much, much better.

If you have never seen a Bollywood film before, be prepared for the ride of your life. If you give this film even half a chance, you are going to experience the full range of emotions with these characters. Now, there is no way that this craziness could all come together if Kajol, Rani, and of course, Shah Rukh Khan, were not such excellent actors. If you look at the date this film was made, you will see that Kajol and Rani (real-life cousins, btw) were both quite young, and they are surprisingly good. SRK displays his range here, from goofy student to mature widower. Farida Jalal, who plays his mother, is excellent too. The little girl who plays his daughter is amazing. It can't be easy to play your first major role with the world's most popular actor.

There are a couple of reasons to take this film seriously. In the first place, we non-Desis need to start learning about Indian culture. There is a lot here that is exaggerated for the sake of making a point, and if you approach it with an open mind you are going to learn a lot. Second, millions of fans of the world's most prolific movie culture will tell you this is their favorite movie. The second part is brilliant, surreal, and amazing.

If you start with this one, go back for Dilwale Dulhania dela Jayenge. DDLJ is probably the most popular film ever made. It's ten years old, and is still in its first continuous run. With good reason: it is breathtaking. Listen to the music and you will see how cleverly it refers back to certain themes and scenes in KKHH. It's brilliant. Next, you MUST see Kabhi Kushie Khabie Gham. Here SRK is nearing the height of his powers. It will knock you out; you will have seen the progress of SRK and Kajol as actors, and at the same time seen a certain maturing of the films themselves. Kajol is an astonishing beauty of prodigious talent, but what is more, the chemistry between she and SRK is legendary. There are no comparisons in western films. Most earlier SRK films are simply awful; he usually played the thug. It is when he started this series with Kajol that he began to be taken seriously as a leading man, and no one has ever done it better.

A few years ago Kajol married Ajay Devgan and dropped out of show business to start her family. This is pretty much traditional in the Indian film industry. SRK's next leading lady was Rani Mukherjee; she is beyond amazing. Don't miss Chalte Chalte!!

Something sure happened in my heart when I discovered these amazing films. I am totally hooked!

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Movie that Revolutionised Modern Indian Film, August 7, 2003

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Amanda Richards (Georgetown, Guyana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (DVD)

In my part of the world, Indian movies are a part of our common culture. Having said that, I must admit that I was never a great fan of the genre, until this movie was released.

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai has a story line that is improbable but believable, and it will make you laugh, cry, sing and dance. It follows to a point the standard formula for Indian movies, with music and dancing punctuating the story, but everything is modernised and fresh. However, even though it is set in modern times, it never forgets traditional Indian values.

Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Rani Mukerjee give the performances of their lives in this story, which tells of the true love of three friends from their teenage years to adulthood. Handsome, muscular Salman Khan makes a powerful but brief appearance.

Unlike other movies of the genre, it doesn't have the formulaic "rich girl meets poor boy and falls in love" (or vice versa) story line, nor does it have the villians plotting to steal land or money, or committing murder for personal gain. This is simply a very sweet story, with love, tragedy and comedy mixed together in a blender with great music and dancing.

If you only see one Indian movie, make it this one.

If you want more, good recommendations are "Ghulam", "Raja Hindustani", "Dil to Pagal Hai", "Pardes", "Duplicate", "Border", "Dil Se" and "Lagaan", all of which I was inspired to watch after seeing Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.