In the good like in the bad days

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Movie
German title In the good like in the bad days
Original title Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham
Country of production India
original language English , Hindi
Publishing year 2001
length 210 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Karan Johar
script Karan Johar
production Karan Johar,
Yash Johar
music Jatin Pandit ,
Lalit Pandit ,
Sandesh Shandilya
camera Kiran Deohans
cut Sanjay Sankla
occupation
synchronization

In good and bad days ( Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham ; Hindi : कभी ख़ुशी कभी ग़म , kabhī kh uśī kabhī ġam ; international English title: Sometimes there's Happiness, Sometimes there's Sorrow or Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Sad ) is a Hindi film by Karan Johar from 2001.

It is the Indian film with the third-highest grossing abroad so far after My Name Is Khan and Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna - Until luck do us part . He was in the British box office for a few weeks in third place and was also represented in the US box office. In total, subtitle versions were produced in nine languages.

action

When Rohan, the son of an Indian millionaire family, comes home to Diwali , he overhears during a conversation between his two grandmothers that his brother Rahul, who left the country years ago, has been adopted, and that Rohan is the reason for his being Walking must never experience. Shocked, he asks her to tell him the whole story.

Ten years earlier, Rahul had met the lively but very clumsy and somewhat crazy Anjali by chance in a poorer part of the city. She initially mistook him for her older cousin's groom, who was still unknown to her, which later became very embarrassing to her. In the meantime, Rohan, who was still very fat at the time, was teased by Anjali's younger sister Pooja. He pays her back later by ridiculing her in front of his entire school because she comes from a poorer area. He'll be sorry for that later. Rahul and Anjali meet again and again because Rahul asks him to apologize to the whole family, and also because Anjali has another mishap and she apologizes to Rohan's father Yash. A close friendship soon develops from the initial quarrels of their younger siblings, and although Anjali initially reacts very snippily to Rahul's friendliness, they soon fall in love, which becomes evident at the wedding of Anjali's cousin. Yash doesn't know anything about it yet; He wants Rahul to marry Naina, but Naina, with whom he has been friends for years and who secretly loves him, quickly realizes that Rahul's heart does not belong to her and sadly releases him. Rahul asks his father for permission to marry Anjali, to which he reacts very coldly. Rahul asks his forgiveness and wants to tell Anjali that he cannot marry her. He bursts into her father's funeral. He realizes that he doesn't want to live without her, and the ceremony takes place while still in mourning dress. When he takes Anjali home with him, Yash casts his son away. Rahul sadly says goodbye to his family. Rohan and Pooja also have to say goodbye, because Pooja, like Rohan's former nanny Sayeeda, will come to England with them. The separation from Rahul breaks his mother Nandini's heart, and she wants nothing more than that her son returns.

After Rohan knows about everything, he decides to go to England to reconcile his brother with the family. He also wants to do his grandmother a favor, who wants to see Rahul back in India before she dies. Rohan goes to university in London, where he also meets Pooja again, who in the meantime has grown into a beautiful but very superficial young woman who is mainly used to the attention of men. The fact that Rohan, who has also become very attractive, gives her the cold shoulder, arouses her interest in him. He finally reveals himself to her and Pooja or “Poo”, as she calls herself, smuggles him into Rahul's house as “Yash”, brother of a friend.

Rahul and Anjali have a son, Krish, but Anjali and Sayeeda too are unhappy. They miss India and don't want Krish to grow up into an Englishman. Rahul, on the other hand, suppresses his homesickness and tries to stay away from everything Indian - which Anjali turns out to be very difficult. Nevertheless, he accepts “Yash” as a guest because he feels a connection to him that he cannot explain. Rohan and Pooja fall in love with each other and he also brings her closer to Indian culture, clothing, songs and festive customs, which Anjali likes, but Rahul doesn't like to see her. In spite of everything, to do his wife a favor, he celebrates Diwali with her. At the party, Rohan sings a song in which he addresses Rahul and Anjali as "brother" and "sister-in-law", which is not taken so seriously. He has won a bet between him and Poo, who in turn expresses her feelings for him in a song. During the course of the celebration, Rahul tries to prevent Anjali from dancing, but then gives in and rediscovers his own love for Indian music. Rohan imagines his parents show up for the celebration and they all make up. In India, Nandini longs for Rahul more and more.

Some time later, Krish and his class are supposed to perform a song in front of school, but instead Rohan and Poo teach the children the Indian national anthem, which they also perform - with Krish in the solo part. Anjali is beside herself with joy. Meanwhile, Rohan, who was recognized by Sayeeda and Anjali, also corrects his brother as to who he is. Rahul is very happy, but asks him to go home without him. Pooja and Rohan use a trick to lure the brothers' parents to London, where they meet Rahul and his family. While Nandini is happy to see them again, Yash feels betrayed by Rohan. Before everything can be cleared up, Yash's mother dies and he returns to India. But when Rahul comes to India for his grandmother's funeral, his father finally admits how much he missed him and forgives him. He finally accepts Anjali as his daughter-in-law.

After this reconciliation, Rahul and his family move back to India, where they live with his parents and Pooja eventually marries Rohan.

Awards

Filmfare Awards

The Filmfare Award in the category "Best Actress" went to Kajol in 2002 and in the category "Best Supporting Actress" to Jaya Bhaduri .

Other awards went to Sharmishta Roy for the best production design and to Karan Johar for the best dialogues.

IIFA Awards

In both good and bad days , the International Indian Film Academy Awards received various prizes for outstanding technical performance.

Sharmishta Roy received an award in the same category as the Filmfare Awards, Babloo Chakravorty in the category "Best Background Music ", Manish Malhotra as best costume designer, Mickey Contractor for best make-up, Anil Mathur and Nakul Kamte for best music recordings and Karan Johar again received the award for the best dialogues.

The academy also gave Jaya Bhaduri the Popular Award for best supporting actress and Sonu Nigam received the same award as best playback singer for the songs Suraj Hua Maddham and You are my Soniya .

Kajol and Shah Rukh Khan were both nominated for "Best Actor", Kareena Kapoor , Hrithik Roshan and Amitabh Bachchan as "Best Supporting Actor".

Karan Johar was nominated for both best story and best director.

The entire musical direction of the film was nominated for an award, as well as Alka Yagnik as best playback singer for Bole Chudiyan and Suraj Hua Maddham and Udit Narayan as best playback singer for Bole Chudiyan .

Nominated for the lyrics to the song Sooraj Hua Madham was Anil Pandey and Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham Sameer .

Further awards

Kajol won the Screen Weekly Award for Best Actress. Shah Rukh Khan was nominated for Best Actor. Kareena Kapoor, Hrithik Roshan and Amitabh Bachchan were nominated for Best Supporting Actor award.

At the festival for action and adventure films in Valencienne , France , Karan Johar won the audience and jury award, as well as the France Bleu Nord Award, for In Good and Bad Days . Kajol was named best actress.

At the Zee Cine Awards , Kajol also won an award for exceptional acting. Sonu Nigam was again awarded for Suraj Hua Maddham .

Others

  • Hrithik Roshan was so upset by the reconciliation scene between Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan that he could not film his part until a day later after Bachchan had calmed him down.
  • In good and bad days is one of the first Indian films for which a “making-of” book was written.
  • Rani Mukerji makes a guest appearance at the beginning of the film.
  • When it was shot in 2001, it was the most expensive Indian film to date.
  • During the song Suraj Hua Maddam there is a small excerpt from the theme song from the film Kuch Kuch Hota Hai - And all of a sudden you can hear love , in which Shahrukh Khan and Kajol also play the leading roles as Rahul and Anjali .
  • The Gayatri (mantra) was spoken or sung twice in the film.
  • Aryan Khan, the son of Shah Rukh Khan , played the young Rahul at the beginning of the film.
  • The song that Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan sing alone after Say Shava Shava is Aati Kya Khandala from the movie Ghulam , in which Rani Mukherji plays the leading role.
  • The song It's Raining Men was used without the permission of the copyright holders. The director was sued in a UK court and had to pay.

Evaluation for the German-speaking area

After Rapid Eye Movies the film in the original language with English subtitles ( subtitles sales) to some big city cinemas that the Hindi film from 10 April 2003 under the title Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Sad premiered, the station decided RTL II a year later, broadcast a synchronized, but shortened to 30 minutes in the evening program version, it was better or for difficult days shown on 19 November 2004 for the first time on free TV first Bollywood film series. A total audience rating of 1.93 million was achieved, giving RTL 2 a market share of 12.2% in the advertising-relevant group of 14 to 49 year olds. An uncut version in German was first broadcast on the pay TV channel Passion on April 19, 2008.

For the synchronization , the managing editor of the RTL commissioned two feature film department Minea Bauer and her colleague Alexander King synchronous company Bavaria synchronous in Munich . Despite the shortened TV version , the film comprised over 2000 takes , the so-called subdivisions into short individual sections of the dialogue sequences, almost three times as many as an average Hollywood blockbuster. The soundtracks of music and language have not always been separate in Hindi productions, as the importing countries only subtitled or made voice-over versions, as in Turkey. The right voice actors were cast, and since then Pascal Breuer has been the voice of Shah Rukh Khan . The Indian stars Kajol and Amitabh Bachchan have also been cast with Natascha Geisler and Joachim Höppner since this synchronized arrangement . Hrithik Roshan, on the other hand, was spoken by Stefan Günther in this film .

synchronization

role Actress Voice actor
Yashovardhan "Yash" Raichand Amitabh Bachchan Joachim Höppner
Nandini Raichand Jaya Bachchan Katharina Lopinski
Rahul Raichand Shah Rukh Khan Pascal Breuer
Anjali Sharma Raichand Kajol Natascha Geisler
Rohan Raichand Hrithik Roshan Stefan Günther
Pooja "Pooh" Sharma Raichand Kareena Kapoor Shandra Schadt
Naina Kapoor Rani Mukherji Kathrin Gaube
Sayeeda (Deejay) Farida Jalal Maddalena Kerrh
Bauji (Anjali's father) Alok Nath Fritz von Hardenberg
Rukhsaar Simone Singh Karoline Guthke

Reviews

“An Indian family tale about the decline and resurgence of a clan whose scattered members come together in London. The sprawling opulent film is primarily committed to the naivety typical of the Bollywood cinema genre and entertains the audience with a lot of singing, dance and melodrama. Social conflicts certainly sound like that, but they remain embedded in a fantastic, epic dream cinema that describes a lush ideal world, and in the process, entirely foreign cultural modes of perception are conveyed. "

“In this masala movie (after the spice mixture known to us under the name» Curry «) three generations of Indian superstar screen couples can be admired in a skilfully flavored mixture of heart, pain, comedy and music. The dance numbers take you away from the plot into a world in which only feelings count - whether they correspond to what travel guides sell us as an Indian tradition or are completely committed to the current MTV aesthetic. "

“For traditionally more critical viewers, of course, the question arises as to why you should do this Schmonzette if you would avoid the same material, if it were produced in Hollywood, for miles. Exotic bonus? Cultural arrogance even? (...) But there are enough reasons to watch this film: On the one hand, "In good as in difficult days" is a remarkable achievement and is staged in a completely enjoyable way. On the other hand, it offers a deep insight into a foreign film culture. "

- epd film , 2003

literature

  • Oliver Krüger: "It's all about loving your parents". The Reflection of Tradition, Modernity and Rituals in Popular Indian Movies , in: Marburg Journal of Religion 9,1 (2004), online
  • Master's thesis (University of Bonn) by Kathrin Rosi Würtz: Bollywood between world of experience and intercultural imagination: Indian popular cinema and its reception by a German-speaking audience ( www.bollywood.uni-bonn.de )
  • Kathrin Rosi Würtz: Behavior, etiquette and manners in everyday Indian life and their medial communication in Bollywood film . Term paper (University of Bonn)
  • Kathrin Rosi Würtz: Bollywood between world of experience and intercultural imagination: Indian popular cinema and its reception by a German-speaking audience (published master's thesis), ISBN 978-3-8370-7319-5

Individual evidence

  1. Hartmut Wagner: Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Sad - India's most expensive film has been showing in German cinemas since April 10th. Eurasian Magazine, issue 03-2004, accessed on May 20, 2013 .
  2. OFDb : from Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Sad , accessed on May 19, 2013
  3. Review: Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham ... molodezhnaja.ch, accessed on May 19, 2013 .
  4. OFDb: Version view of Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Sad , accessed on May 20, 2013
  5. A visit to the synchronization work in Munich. molodezhnaja.ch, April 26, 2005, accessed on May 19, 2013 .
  6. In good as in difficult days. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on May 20, 2013 .
  7. Lexicon of International Films: In good and bad days , accessed on May 19, 2013
  8. atrechock.de: Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Sad , accessed on May 20, 2013
  9. epd Film No. 5/2003, joint work of Evangelical Journalism, Frankfurt aM, p. 47

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