kuch kuch hota hai ndagi Na Milegi Dobara(ZNMD) is the archetypal Hindi film, which is precisely why it becomes extremely predictable and mildly entertaining. At a time when filmmakers dealing with the lives of youth are coming up with brash, bold and realistic works to woo the audience, ZNMD is a bit too dated to excite and too humdrum to engage. For example, our boys in ZNMD play the same word game to reveal each other’s woes which Rahul and Anjali played in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, more than a decade ago. It can be easily said that the film is hinged on its star cast; it’s not a bad deal to watch when the trio of boys one is talking about 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
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