kuch kuch hota haiabout is a formidable one—the irresistible combination of charm, intelligence and wit in Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar and Abhay Deol. The girls, though sidelined, manage to look pretty too. Those are not the things one would ideally want to write about, but one is not left with much choice when the film doesn’t have anything new to offer in terms of the story and the way it is told. Arjun (Roshan), Kabir (Deol) and Imran (Akhtar) are friends from college who had promised each other to go on a trip together where each one of them would choose an adventure sport and the other two will have to comply. So they venture to Spain, and the next thing you know is that Arjun is hydrophobic and Imran, acrophobic.
What happens then? Of course they go deep-sea diving and paragliding together and conquer their fears. And when an attractive Laila (Katrina Kaif) is the diving instructor, one of the boys has to fall in love with her inevitably. In the climax of the film, the trio conquers the biggest fear of all—death. Besides these pathological fears, each boy is facing a real-life demon too. Imran wants to track down his biological father who is an artist in Spain, Kabir is grappling with the possibility of a ‘forced’ love-marriage and a nagging wife-to-be, and Arjun is a workaholic financial broker who has always valued money over everything else. Like any feel-good Hindi film; our boys resolve their conflicts in the end, their lives are transformed, everybody gets what they want, they are all united with their love, and live happily ever after! Life is fairly simple, devoid of multiple layers or tones and the motto of the film is: ‘seize the day my friend’! Regrettably, that does begin to sound shallow as one approaches the end of the film.
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