(For you at home keeping score, that makes Shah Rukh Khan - 5, PPCC - 0. well, it's not that overbearing), and Shah Rukh Khan's powers beat us again, for we cried. We were a little surprised then: the story is presented with sensitivity and a light, deft touch (rather than overbearing melodrama. But we had prepared ourselves for the worst: one of those multi-starrer post-2000 Bollywood extravaganzas that hide a vacuum behind a thin shell of tears, bad jokes, and unsatisfying songs. Bored with work? Turn on KANK for a few minutes. It was like having the Friends season finale, going on and on and on.
#KABHI ALVIDA NAA KEHNA MOVIE#
Since we watched this movie in half-hour snatches throughout an otherwise busy but boring day, we would say it was digestible. The music climbs to a climax: Dev dodges into the train, sits, and then -Īdmittedly, you have to wait three hours and five minutes for this piece of conventional cinema gold. The camera zooms, we see Dev stop in his tracks while Maya asks someone for help. The camera swoops, we see Maya running while Dev hustles through the crowds. Quick! The train leaves in one minute, and if you don't catch him now, YOU'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO TELL HIM YOU LOVE HIM! (Mobile phones and Hallmark cards don't have quite the same effect.) Thanks to some tragic misunderstandings, Dev has actually seen Maya and is quickly limping away, trying to avoid her. With sweeping choral voices to accompany the slow-motion chase, Maya (Rani Mukherjee) races through the station, saree flowing behind, searching frantically for her love, Dev (Shah Rukh Khan). It was even already an hour earlier in this same movie. The best scene in the 3-hour soap opera, Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna ( Never Say Goodbye), is the classic train station finale.