Sometimes shit. Movie rage.

One day Karan Johar, the film maker and India's wrong answer to Stephen Fry, decided that Ekta Kapoor was not doing her duties well. In today's fast paced lifestyle, people should not have to wait for 11 years to realize they've been watching crap.

With this view, and a 400 billion rupees and an ensemble cast, Karan Johar set out to make Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham. One ought to stop when your title translates to Sometimes Happiness, Sometimes Sadness. But nothing was going to stop K Jo from wasting 400 billions and the potential of some fine actors.

I am not going to give you the plot of the movie, go read Wikipedia for that. I am merely going to reveal certain motives behind the making of this film that the public never knew about. Remember how the title promises moments of sadness as well as happiness. Well, you are going to cry at every moment in this film. No, not because the film maybe pathetic. Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham was designed to make you cry. When someone in the film cries, you cry. When someone in the film smiles, you cry. Genuinely. Shahrukh looks for opportunities to cry, Hrithik goes from crying to being euphoric back to crying. Amitabh Bachchan does not like to cry, but is made to, in the end. And Kareena is a student of King's college, London.

The public was always curious about the personal married life of Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan, the height issues, the good actor bad actor issues and the disappointing son issues. With Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham, much of these was brought to light in different shades of pompous red and yellow.  

Basically, Amitabh's character, Yashwardhan Raichand is a wealthy, good natured, humble, all loving businessman who does not want to do anything with the working class populace. How everyone else in the film bring him to change his mind and become extra all loving, forms the story. At the heart, Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham is a larger than life, the Universe and everything film.

Tip: If you watch the movie in segments, you almost get the feel of a daily soap. That's the power and finesse of Karan Johar.