Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna

2006 • 192 minutes

About this movie

Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (KANK) is the story of Dev and Maya, both married to different people and completely convinced that they are happy, until they meet each other. Dev (Shah Rukh Khan) is a professional football player whose promising career is nipped in the bud after an accident. He is married to Rhea (Preity Zinta) whose career is on an upswing. They have a son, Arjun, and Dev's mother, Kamaljit (Kirron Kher) lives with them. Maya (Rani Mukerjee) teaches at a nursery and has married her closest friend Rishi (Abhishek Bachchan), a PR consultant. Rishi's father, Samarjit Singh aka Sam (Amitabh Bachchan) is a flamboyant, fun-loving man whose life revolves around the happiness of his son and daughter-in-law. The two couples seem content despite the dissatisfaction below the surface but things start to change when a chance encounter between Dev and Maya brings them closer. There is a strange connection between them which blossoms into friendship. Their time together soon causes complications. This new-found friendship between Dev and Maya causes them to look into their marriages with a new perspective and face issues that they hadn't before. How all the different characters deal with this new development in their lives forms the crux of Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (CIL/2/48/2006-MUM).

Ratings and reviews

Mr. Karan johar people of India knows what kind of person is u r. Dont show Indian womens in bad light. We dont have any problem to accept that u r not a real man ..bcoz that is true.but showing a Indian women in bad light is not acceptable. Now u r movies r made mostly for ga.. .who is ga...they might go for u r movie.

Loved this movie. Thoughtfully and tastefully presented. This movie presented the characters in the best light - as unhappy human beings in search for love and acceptance. Each one of the characters - Rishi, Rhea, Dev, and Maya, eventually found true love: Dev and Maya with each other and their ex-spouses with someone new. Like it or not, these things really do happen. I am glad that Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna addressed this subject matter with such great sensitivity.

Having watched that movie not too long after watching Veer-Zaara, I guess my expectations were set a little too high - it is a great movie, but unfortunately not the greatest romance. A thing that I somehow found less interesting than other Bollywood romances, is the romance aspect - a bit more physical in this movie, instead of the typically more emotional romance. All in all, it is okay - not suprisingly good, but not bad either. It has its moments, but only a few. Was lucky to watch it on netflix, not too sure I'd be satisfied by buying it - it DID have a LOT of funny moments though, mainly in the first half of the movie, but it made me laugh quite a bit!