Kal
Ho Naa Ho (Tomorrow May Never Come) is a romantic Indian
comedy-drama movie released in 2003. It is written by Niranjan Iyengar and
Karan Johar, directed by Nikhil Advani and produced by Yash Johar and Karan
Johar. Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy has composed its music and Javed Akhtar has written
the lyrics of the songs. Some leading actors of the film are Shahrukh Khan, –
who isn’t the “King of Bollywood” without a good reason – Jaya Bachchan, Saif
Ali Khan and Preity Zinta. The movie has succeeded well both in India and
abroad. It has won several awards, for example, National Film Awards two times
and Filmfare Awards seven times. In Finland it was shown at the Helsinki Film
Festival Love and Anarchy.
The movie is placed in New
York where Naina, a young Indian woman, lives with her family. Her father has
committed suicide and the family is facing problems with money. Many things
change when their new neighbour Aman notices their misery and wants to help
them. Soon Aman falls in love with Naina but doesn’t admit it because he knows
that he can’t give his love to her a long time anymore. Naina has already
started to love him but despite that Aman tries to make her fall in love with
her best friend Rohit because he wants her to be happy. Eventually Naina and
Rohit end up getting married.
After
watching the movie I was very impressed and there were many assorted thoughts
on my mind. The story was really touching and I loved the characters. The movie
made me emphatic, sad and happy at the same time. I couldn’t help crying; tears
just flowed down my cheeks and ruined my make-up. Aman was absolutely my
favourite character. He is so unselfish, positive despite everything, a good
man who wants to help everyone and make everybody happy – and he succeeds in
that.
I think all the characters
were very plausible; all of them had good actors or actresses who knew what
they were doing. Everyone was perfect in their roles, of course, and I could
immediately notice some things about the characters’ personalities. Some
characters I didn’t specially like, for example Naina’s annoying grandmother.
The most I could identify with Rohit because he is a little shy and because of
the way he expresses himself. I could imagine myself doing and saying the same
things if I was in his situation.
My favourite part of the movie
was when Naina realises everything and she gets to know about Aman’s feelings
and about his condition. That part is my favourite because particularly that
evoke many feelings and it was one of the main scenes of the film. Another part
I liked a lot was Naina and Rohit’s wedding because it was so beautiful and it
was nice to see how the wedding is in their culture. In addition I liked all
the songs and dances, most of them are happy and they have a nice effect on the
movie.
The movie was in Hindi so it
was rather difficult to understand anything but luckily the subtitles were very
clear and it was easy to follow. The language is mostly quite simple, casual
and neutral. All in all it was easy to follow the movie and its happenings.
There were only a couple of confusing things but they got figured out in the
end, too.
The purpose of the film is to
entertain, of course, but not only that but also to make people think about
life and living, what the most valuable things really are. The movie tells
about real sincere love and it surely evokes many feelings in everybody who
watches it. I would recommend the movie to everybody who likes romantic movies
and drama or is interested in Bollywood and a little different kind of movies
for a change.
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