Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
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Directed by	Karan Johar
Written by	Karan Johar
Produced by	Yash Johar Hiroo Johar
Starring	Shah Rukh Khan Kajol Rani Mukerji Salman Khan
Music by	Jatin-Lalit
Distributed by	Yash Raj Films
Release dates	October 16, 1998
Running time	185 min.
Language	Hindi
Budget	$1,843,742.82 (est.)

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (Hindi: कुछ कुछ होता है, Urdu: کچھ کچھ ہوتا ہے English: Something is always happening) is a Bollywood romantic comedy film, released in India and the United Kingdom on October 16, 1998. Translated, the title is "Something happens" - meaning (as described by the movie's tagline), "You know you're in love when Kuch Kuch Hota Hai". The title is often abbreviated as KKHH or K2H2.

The film was written and directed by the debuting Karan Johar and stars the popular on-screen pair of Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol in their fourth of five movies together. Rani Mukerji features in a supporting role, while Salman Khan has an extended cameo appearance. The picture was extremely successful both in India and overseas. It won many of the major awards at 1999's Filmfare Award ceremony.

Synopsis

Rahul (Shahrukh Khan) and the tomboy Anjali (Kajol) are students at St. Xavier College. They are the best of friends.

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Kajol and Rani (l-r) in a scene

Then Tina, (Rani Mukerji), the principal's daughter, enrolls at St. Xavier. She is beautiful, feminine, and sophisticated -- the antithesis of Anjali. Rahul falls hard for Tina, just as Anjali is realizing that she has some feelings for Rahul. She awakens to those feelings just in time to see that it is hopeless. She leaves college suddenly, vowing to forget all.

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Kajol, Shah Rukh & Rani (l-r) in the song Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

Tina and Rahul marry and have a child -- whom they name Anjali. Tina dies in childbirth, but previously writes a series of eight letters. Every year, on Anjali's birthday, she is given a letter and hears her mother's loving wishes for her. In the eighth and last letter, the little girl is told about her namesake. Where Rahul had been blind, Tina had noticed the older Anjali's change of heart, and pitied her deeply. If Rahul hasn't remarried, perhaps his first love could be the mother that the young Anjali needs and wants.

Rahul has refused to remarry; he has thrown himself into his work with the intensity of desperation. Anjali Jr. believes that the older Anjali can make her beloved father happy again, and decides to help her father reclaim his lost paramour. She soon recruits her doting grandmother (Rahul's mother played by Farida Jalal) and grandfather (Tina's father played by Anupam Kher) as accomplices.

The unlikely conspirators locate Rahul's old flame and contrive to make Rahul and Anjali meet again. Rahul soon finds old feelings reviving. However, there is a complication. Anjali has bowed to her family's wishes and is engaged to another man, Aman (played by Salman Khan). Complications ensue, but all ends well as Aman steps aside to let the fated couple marry at last.

Cast

• Shahrukh Khan as Rahul Khanna: A student at St. Xavier's college, Rahul is Anjali's first paramour and her best friend, but ultimately falls for and marries Tina. He is self-confident and extremely masculine.
• Kajol as Anjali Sharma: The college's tomboy and Rahul's best friend, who is secretly in love with him. She is a boyish and forthright girl who grows into a poised and lovely woman.
• Rani Mukerji as Tina Malhotra: The principal's daughter, feminine, sophisticated, an alumna from Oxford University. She is the woman with whom Rahul eventually has a daughter. She dies and sends her daughter to matchmake her widowed husband with Anjali through letters written before her death.
• Sana Saeed as Anjali Khanna: Anjali Khanna, named after Anjali Sharma, is Rahul's and Tina's daughter. She desperately wants to have a mother again and wants her father to have a loving wife.
• Farida Jalal as Mrs. Khanna: As Rahul's mother she wishes for her son's happiness and as little Anjali's grandmother she wishes for new mother.
• Anupam Kher as Principal Malhotra: As Tina's father and little Anjali's grandfather, he wishes for a new mother for little Anjali. He, along with Mrs. Khanna, seek to bring happiness back into Rahul's life. He is slightly infatuated with Mrs. Briganza.
• Archana Puran Singh as Ms. Briganza: A showy English teacher at St. Xavier's College. She flirts with Principal Malhotra throughout the film.
• Reema Lagoo as Mrs. Sharma: She is Anjali Sharma's mother and doubts her daughter's motives for marrying her fiancée Aman.
• Himani Shivpuri as Rifat Bi: St. Xavier's housekeeper and a motherly friend for Anjali Sharma. She helps little Anjali to prevent the marriage between the older Anjali and Amaan.
• Johnny Lever as Col. Almeida: He is the Camp Manager of Camp Sunshine, where Anjali Sharma works. He has a strong sense of admiration for the British Empire and finally finds his match in Mrs. Khanna's patriotism for India.
• Parzaan Dastur as Silent Sardarji: A little Sikh boy at Camp Sunshine. He never talks and always counts the stars. When Anjali leaves Camp Sunshine to marry Aman, he pleads with her to stay.
• Salman Khan as Aman Mehra in a special appearance: Aman is Anjali Sharma's loving fiancé, who finally understands her feelings for Rahul and lets her go.
• Neelam as Herself in a special appearance: She is the host of her own show, the Neelam Show, and little Anjali's role model. She involuntarily helps to matchmake Rahul and grown-up Anjali.

Trivia

• Was mentioned in the episode Boxed In of NCIS where Agent Dinozzo & David find a crate full of movies & says if they ever make it alive out of there that they were going to watch it. Later he proceeds to make an antenna from the dvd.

• Shah Rukh Khan quotes: "Very few people know this. Now that she’s successful, I can take credit for it. I spotted Rani in the promo of her first film Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat and recommended her to Karan (Johar) for Kuch Kuch Hota Hai."

• High-profile Bollywood actresses Twinkle Khanna, Tabu, Urmila Matondkar, Aishwarya Rai, Raveena Tandon and Karisma Kapoor were all offered the role of Tina, but turned it down. Rani Mukerji, who accepted it, won her first Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for this role.

• During the bicycle sequence in the Yeh Ladki Hai Deewani song number, Kajol lost control of her bike, fell flat on her face and was knocked unconscious while also injuring her knee. Years later while discussing the incident with co-star Shah Rukh Khan and director Karan Johar on his talk show Koffee with Karan, both Khan and Johar joked that Kajol lost her memory upon awakening and was asking where she was and what her name is. 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.

• Shahrukh Khan and the child actress Sana Saeed (who played his daughter) reprise their roles as Rahul and Anjali in the 2000 Salman Khan-Rani Mukerji-Preity Zinta starrer- Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega.

• Choreographer Farah Khan appears in two cameo appearances: in the beginning, shortly before Shahrukh Khan's character is late for a meeting with his daughter, you can see her arguing with a man and later during the Neelam Show where she plays the girlfriend of Nikhil Advani, the associate director, who dumps his previous girlfriend.

• Salman Khan won his first award for his role as Aman Mehra.

• Is the second film to win the 4 major awards at filmfare. Others include, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge and Black (film).

• When Anjali is again introduced before her engagment, the girl behind Anjali in yellow sari passes Mrs. Sharma then goes out and in the next shot of Anjali is is again seen behind kajol.

Music

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CD Cover for Kuch Kuch Hota Hai's original soundtrack

#	Title	Singer	Time	Other notes
1	Kuch Kuch Hota Hai	Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik	4:56	title song
2	Koi Mil Gaya	Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik, Kavita Krishnamurthy	7:16
3	Saajanji Ghar Aaye	Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik, Kavita Krishnamurthy	7:14
4	Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (Sad)	Alka Yagnik	1:26
5	Yeh Ladka Hai Deewana	Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik	6:36
6	Tujhe Yaad Na Meri Aayee	Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik	7:03
7	Raghupati Raghav	Shankar Mahadevan, Alka Yagnik	2:05
8	Ladki Badi Anjani Hai	Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik	6:23
9	Kuch Kuch Hota Hai	Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik	4:41	Remix by Jatin Sharma / only available on German version
10	Tujhe Yaad Na Meri Aay	Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik	4:44	Remix by Jatin Sharma / only available on German version

The audio CD was re-released in Germany when the movie had its TV premiere. The German version of the soundtrack has two additional tracks.

Awards

1998 Filmfare Awards

• Best Movie - Yash Johar
• Best Director - Karan Johar
• Best Actor - Shahrukh Khan
• Best Actress - Kajol
• Best Supporting Actor - Salman Khan
• Best Supporting Actress - Rani Mukerji
• Best Art Direction - Sharmishta Roy
• Best Screenplay - Karan Johar

Zee Cine Awards

• 1998 Best Actor [[Shah Rukh

Sansui Viewer’s Choice Movie Award

• 1998 Best Actor Shah Rukh Khan Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
• 1998 Best Actress Kajol Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

Z Gold Bollywood Award

• 1998 Best Actor Shah Rukh Khan Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

External links

• Kuch Kuch Hota Hai at IMDb
• Official Website Entry for Kuch Kuch Hota Hai