Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998-movie) :Bollywood Hindi Film

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai Film Details :

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai Movie also known as KKHH, is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film, released in India and the United Kingdom on 16 October 1998. It was writter & directer Karan Johar, and starred the popular on-screen pair of Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol in their fourth film together. Rani Mukerji featured in a supporting role, while Salman Khan also had an extended-cameo appearance. Sana Saeed, who was featured in a supporting role, made her debut in this film. The plot combines two love triangles set years apart. The first half covers friends on a college campus, while the second tells the story of a widower’s young daughter who tries to reunite her dad with his old friend.

• Directer : Karan Johar
• Producer : Yash Johar,Hiroo Johar
• Writer : Karan Johar
• Starring : Shah Rukh Khan,Kajol,Rani Mukerji,Salman Khan
• Music : Jatin-Lalit
• Cinematography : Santosh Thundiyil
• Edited : Sanjay Sankla
• Production company : Dharma Productions
• Distributed : Yash Raj Films
• Art Direction:Sharmishta Roy
• Set Decoration:Ajay Bhatia
• Makeup Department:M. Amir,Praveen Bhate,Mickey Contractor
• Special Effects:Francis Fernandes,Prafull Gade,Suresh Naik
• Visual Effects:Prasad Sutar
• Stunts:Shah Rukh Khan
• Genres: Comedy,Drama,Musical,Romance
• Release date : 16 October 1998
• Running time : 185 minutes
• Country : India
• Language : Hindi

Star Cast :

Shah Rukh Khan … Rahul Khanna
Kajol … Anjali Sharma
Rani Mukerji … Tina Malhotra (as Rani Mukherji)
Sana Saeed … Anjali Khanna
Reema Lagoo … Mrs. Sharma (as Reema)
Farida Jalal … Mrs. Khanna
Archana Puran Singh… Ms. Briganza
Himani Shivpuri … Rifat Bi
Johnny Lever … Col. Almeida, Camp Manager (as Johny Lever)
Anupam Kher … Principal Malhotra
Parzaan Dastur … Silent Sardarji
Salman Khan … Aman Mehra
Geeta Kapoor … Dancer
Farah Khan … Woman on the Neelam show
Nikkhil Advani … Guest of Neelam Show (uncredited)
Neelam Kothari … Neelam the VJ (uncredited)
Chettan Motiwalla

Film Story:

After the experience of assisting and acting in Aditya Chopra’s directorial debut, the romance film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Karan Johar was encouraged to try his own hand at directing. With Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, he chose to pair up the same lead actors, Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol, for his own romance film.They were signed by producer and his father Yash Johar in early 1997.During the filming of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Khan had also encouraged Johar to make his own film, and said that he would be willing to star in it.

Johar first wrote a story, which was a love triangle between a tomboy, a very pretty girl and a slightly insensitive boy, but he shelved the idea because he was not very satisfied with it. Then he wrote another plot about a widower and his child, which he shelved as well. Eventually he decided to merge the two stories into one. He explained in an interview with Rediff.com: “It was about the trauma of a widower and his little child. How the child really wants a mother and how she brings her mother into her father’s life. Then I thought: Why not bring a youth aspect to the story? Why not a flashback? That’s how the story got made.” The story also includes a “personal desires vs. parental loyalties” theme, and has some “East meets West” themes, but instead of the characters going abroad, it creates a virtual West inside India.

Development:

Karan Johar was certain from the beginning that he wanted to cast Shah Rukh Khan in the lead role, having observed him during the making of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.It took longer to fill the role of Tina. The role was written with Twinkle Khanna in mind, but she turned it down.Other actresses such as Tabu, Shilpa Shetty, Urmila Matondkar, Aishwarya Rai, Raveena Tandon and Karisma Kapoor were offered the role but also turned it down.Aditya Chopra and Shah Rukh Khan noticed Rani Mukerji’s beauty and acting talent in Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat, and suggested her to Karan Johar. He thus signed her, giving a boost to her career.Saif Ali Khan, Ajay Devgn, Mukul Dev, and Chandrachur Singh were initially offered the role of Aman, but they all turned it down, thus prompting Johar to rope in Salman Khan.

Johar, who is also a costume designer, wanted to set a new level for style in Hindi cinema with this film. He and his friend Manish Malhotra, the film’s costume designer, made trips to London for costumes, much to the chagrin of his father and producer Yash Johar, who was concerned about the budget. Many of the costumes in the film prominently displayed logos from designers such as DKNY and Polo.In addition to the designer fashions, Johar also created a somewhat fantastical world where the students speak Hinglish and enjoy a pristine college campus, where there is no crime or hate, and traditional Hindu values are pervasive.Johar admitted that the look and feel of the college scenes in the film were patterned after Beverly Hills 90210, saying, “The art, the costumes, tilt toward the West, but the soul of the film is Indian.” He hired Sharmishta Roy as art director, and told her to produce something similar to Riverdale High School of the Archie Comics, with some 90210 influence as well. Johar said of the outcome, “If you see KKHH, Shahrukh plays Archie, Rani Mukherji plays Veronica, and Kajol played Betty. It was exactly that. And the principal looked like Weatherbee, and Ms. Grundy was Archana Puran Singh.” Johar also hired Farah Khan to do the choreography, Jatin-Lalit to provide the music, Santosh Thundiyil as cinematographer, and Nikhil Advani as his associate director. Shabina Khan assisted Manish Malhotra with costume design.

Film Shooting:

Film Shooting Started on 21 October 1997. The crew was young and inexperienced to the point where Shah Rukh Khan had to explain basic technicalities of filming. Khan later said, “Karan makes no bones of the fact that his technical knowledge of filmmaking was not at its peak when he made the biggest hit of the decade.”The entire film was shot in nine and half monthswith a substantial part of it shot in Mauritius.The title song was filmed over a ten-day period.in several picturesque locations in Scotland,including Eilean Donan, Glen Coe, Loch Lomond and Tantallon Castle with the nearby Bass Rock as a backdrop in one scene.The scenes from the summer camp in Shimla were filmed at Wenlock Downs in Ooty, Tamil Nadu.

During the bicycle sequence in the “Yeh Ladka Hai Deewana” song, Kajol lost control of her bike, fell flat on her face, and was knocked unconscious while also injuring her knee. During the promotional Making of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai TV special, Kajol stated that the accident was her most memorable part of shooting the film because she doesn’t remember it.During preparation for the reunion scene where the two leads met after more than 8 years apart, the director told them to improvise and rehearse the reactions that they might use, but he secretly taped them, and was so pleased with the result that it was put into the film.This film is also notable for a scene where when everyone plays “Dumb Charades” where there are a couple of songs from previous films that play in this film and they have to guess the film name of where that song comes from.

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai Movie Songs/Music:

The soundtrack for Kuch Kuch Hota Hai was composed by Jatin-Lalit and the lyrics were penned by Sameer. This is the first collaboration of the duo with Karan Johar. It was released by the Sony Music label on 12 September 1998.Mukul Deshpande of Planet Bollywood rated the soundtrack 8.5 out of 10 stars although he did not like all of the songs.The album became the best selling Bollywood soundtrack of the year.The title song remained on the Indian music charts for over a year,and the album peaked at number #2 on the Malaysian albums chart (RIM) in 1999.In 2012 it was voted as the most popular film song of the previous decade by NDTV. The full soundtrack came in second place in a similar poll conducted by the BBC, the first place being taken by Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, an album which was also composed by Jatin-Lalit.

While the film was still untitled, Javed Akhtar was signed to write the lyrics, and even wrote and recorded one song. However, when the movie was titled Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, he found the title mediocre, obscene, and vulgar and decided to quit the project. Akhtar later regretted leaving the film, as he found it decent and could see that the title has become quite a buzz-word, realizing that he was the only one who disliked the title.

• “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai” – Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik,
• “Koi Mil Gaya” – Kavita Krishnamurthy, Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik
• “Saajanji Ghar Aaye” – Kavita Krishnamurthy, Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik,
• “Yeh Ladka Hai Deewana” – Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik
• “Raghupati Raghav” – Alka Yagnik, Shankar Mahadevan
• “Tujhe Yaad Na Meri Aayee” – Alka Yagnik, Manpreet Akhtar, Udit Narayan
• “Ladki Badi Anjaani Hai” – Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik
• “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (Sad)” – Alka Yagnik

“Kuch Kuch Hota Hai” Full Video – Title Track:

• Song Name – Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
• Singer – Udit Narayan & Alka Yagnik
• Composer – Jatin Lalit
• Lyricists – Sameer Anjaan
• Music Label – Sony Music Entertainment India Pvt. Ltd.

“Tujhe Yaad Na Meri Aayee” Full Video Song:

• Song Name – Tujhe Yaad Na Meri Aaye
• Singer – Alka Yagnik and Udit Narayan
• Composer – Jatin Lalit
• Lyricists – Sameer Anjaan
• Music Label – Sony Music Entertainment India Pvt. Ltd.

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai Movie Review:

This film review are Mostly Positive from Critics, IMDB Public Reviewing site give 7.6 Star Out Of 10 Star with Reviewers are 46163.

Critics Rating Chaithanya Animela, from Times Of India give 4.3 star out of 5 Star.

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