Yes, this is about the infamous movie KANK (kabhi alvida naa kehna). When I saw the movie, I was thinking about it, thought of writing about it, opened Sulekha and Bam, it was full of kank reviews. And some People expressed thoughts similar to mine, so I just dropped the idea.

Anyways, I am writing it now.

The story has so much potential you know. But then the film makers will say they are not taking art movies.

Let me first say, I am not supporting adultery here. I am not even going there.

Hero has lost something and heroine has nothing valuable to hold onto the life, atleast to her ( Abhishek's character was absolutely adorable). But the pain of loss, the successful people and the happy go lucky people can never understand the depth of it. Thats exactly the director should have emphasized. But instead he screwed it up royally.

Cheap scenes to get the lead characters to sleep together. Oh jeez, thinking about it, i am just so embarrassed for the director. Totally filmy father character, the usual bollywood grandness and what not.

I am just using the actual actors names here, since I dont remember the characters names.

Sharukh was whiny and bitchy. Yeah absolutely.

Can I understand why he is that way? Yeah absolutely.

He lost his career in his prime. He was so capable of doing it excellently, he loved it and he lost it. It was huge. Way huge. Preethi was supportive, but she is a cheerful person and successful in what she does. And She wants Sharukh to quit his whining and move on. You know, whats next? Meanwhile all Sharukh wants to do is console himself in a way he knows best. By hating the world and being bitchy. He doesnt want to go to his wife for sympathy and he doesnt want to hear any move on lecture. Understandable? Totally. All he needs is a person who can listen to his sorrows and not be judgemental about his whining and bitching. Preethi can be judgemental. Outgoing, successful people mostly are judgemental. Thats one of their keys to success. I am not blaming anybody, just saying.

So, now he meets Rani.

Rani doesnt love her husband. However cute he is, understanding he is, she doesnt love him. Possible? Oh yes, its absolutely possible. Just because somebody is good, you dont fall in love with them. She was skeptical when they got married and she never warmed up to him. They dont have a child, adding to her misery. So there is nothing going on for her in this marriage. No child to connect her with Abhishek. Nothing. So, she turns to obsessive cleaning, just a way to avoid Abhisek. She is depressed. Happy go lucky Abhishek cannot understand her. He tries to help her in his own way by trying to pull her into doing more fun stuff. Which is, even more miserable for Rani. She is in a very depressed state. Outwardly, everything is going great for her. Inwardly, she silently suffers her passionless marriage.

Preethi & Abhishek are the poor souls who doesnt know how to help their spouses.

Preethi cannot savor her success and Abhishek cannot have fun and both dont have a clue on how to connect with their spouse.

Now Rani & Sharukh meets. Rani, this compassionate, nice, depressed person who can lend a shoulder to Sharukh and his sorrows. Rani understands Sharukh. He is going through something, but he cannot share that with his wife, because they couldnt connect.

Is Rani, Sharukhs soulmate? Well, we dont know that. But the common thing between them is they are not able to connect with their spouses. They started talking, their friendship is like a soothing balm to their hurting souls.

Understandable? Yes, totally. When they want to move forward with their relationship, they suffer from guilty because they dont want to hurt their spouses. After all, their spouses loves them, wants to help them to come out of their pain.

But Rani & Sharukh wants to support each other, live together, heal together and find their own way of happiness. They feel they can never heal, if they stay with their corresponding partners. Is it okay to do it? Its upto them. They want to take the plunge, hurt few people along the way and heal together? If they have the guts then they will do it.

Its a fantastic concept. And Karan(Director) could have done a lot with this concept.

We would have even felt sympathy for Rani & Sharukh . Eventhough they are committing adultery, eventhough they are hurting their partners, its possible to feel sympathy for Sharukh & Rani, if only the movie was made better. Karan started the movie okay, but somewhere along the line he started screwing it up and screwing, screwing and more screwing.

I was going like What, what are you doing? You are messing up the story. Stop! Stop!. Anyway the movie already reached some point, from where there is no turning back.

Human emotions are so complex. There is no black and white. And anything can happen.

Anyways, he took an interesting concept and made a cheap movie.

And it was so cheap and irritating, you ended up hating sharukh and Rani and everybody in the movie for that matter.

Well, my romantic side still believes if only Kajol was the heroine, somehow that would have made the movie a good one. Who wouldnt want to see Sharukh and Kajol get together? With her big big eyes, if she looks at sharukh with the passionate, soulful wanting, I say cheating or no cheating, let them be together

I am not saying Rani is not good. She is one of my favorites.

But Kajol, she is a goddess. Period.