Kabhi Kabhie

Film: Kabhi Kabhie (1976)
Language: Hindi
netflix streaming


Synopsis: 2 people in college fall in love and want to get married. Girl finds out she's arranged to be married with some other guy. Amitabh angsts and decides to quit writing poetry. Fast forward 20-ish years, and another wild college party a boy and girl fall in love and want to get married. Girl finds out a huge family secret and decides to go sort things out, boy follows her because he's in love. And all the characters connect somehow and chaos ensues.

That description fails on so many levels, but I didn't want to give spoilers.

This is what Netflix had to say: "Forced apart by their families, poet Amit (Amitabh Bachchan) and his true love, Pooja (Rakhee Gulzar), marry other people. But years later, when Pooja's son Vikram (Rishi Kapoor) falls in love with a girl named Pinky (Neetu Singh), their connection forces everyone to reexamine the past. As secrets are revealed, Amit and Pooja must come to terms with their history in this romantic Bollywood drama directed by Yash Chopra."

ANYWAY...

The Good
+ the 70's goodness, from the awful clothes to the awful hair
+ pretty scenery
+ good storyline
+ So many hilarious moments. I'm not sure if they were intentional, but most likely not.
+ over the top acting at it's best

The Bad
+ the 2 young girls were annoying.
+ the music... ear-piercing. Make sure you turn volume down. Apparently the music was a big deal, according to Wikipedia, but I'm sure this was typical music for the time.
+ length: 2hr45min

Final Thoughts: Was it worth watching? Yes! Despite watching this over a course of a week, I really enjoyed it. I was curious how things were going to play out, and when I thought some things would never be answered, they did at the end. Also, if nothing else, the last 20 minutes rivals Dhoom in ridiculous-ness. Like I said, there were so many hilarious moments (and if you find the scene where it goes from summer to winter in a matter of frames, kudos to you! That really threw me off and I had to rewind the video to do a double take). I was curious to see an older film, and I liked it alot.

Rating: 3.5/5

Interesting facts/thoughts:
+ Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh were love interests in this film and for a few others. They later got married. (I find that so cute with couples in films ending together... well, in Bollywood world, I do. Not so much American because they're typically going to divorce in about 5 or less yrs).
+ There's moments of Amitabh where you can really see resemblances of Abhishek.

Favorite Song Chahe Chale Churiya