Originally posted by: nkapoor
this is my reply for KANK their is such thing as 'instant chemistry' which lacked in both their relationships, but when they met each other somthing clicked, the first scene explains everything rani and srk marriage for convenience, and both of them looking at each other while walking, and srk's reaction after finding rani, how they connected, found a chemistry, love within each other in their first meeting itself, somtbhing they were looking for, and their bitterness is shown very clearly, they were trying to work on their marriage, but their love for one another grew, and they were unable to love their own partners, not cause their was anyting wrong wid them, but cause rani's character wanted true love or wanted babies and got none, and srk's character again wanted to play international football but got injured, and did not found love or comfort in form of his wife, cause he did not love her.
You missed my point, I was not saying anything about the story, I for one thought that he had a good story to work with. My problem with the film was the lack of clarity of the characters and their reasoning. I am not undermining anything you have said in your points above, but KJo as a film maker lacked to show the bonding between the two protagonists.
I disagree about the instant chemistry point that you made, I agree one can have an instant bonding, but that does not mean that just based on that instant chemistry they stop pondering about their current relationship and commitments. He failed to show the inner turmoil and the depth of their love and their resulting failed marriages. Again I thought that the characters were fairly decently etched out, but he failed to explore the reasons in depth. (the ones you mentioned (Rani's plight for true love and wanting to become a mother, and SRK's failing career)) Just by mentioning the above reasons in passing is not enough to justify their acts.
These are just my views, and not everyone can think alike; we all agree to disagree with each other. So all in good spirit, I respect your opinion and vice versa.
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Someone mentioned about Daag, Silsila and Arth. Before I venture out what I want to say, I'll like to mention that I am not trying to justify KANK or KJo, I merely wanted to bring forward a view point. KANK was pointless, though the subject was good.
So regarding the movies mentioned above, I do agree with the postmaker that those movies were unconventional, and the basis of those movies was infidelity, but the issue that the movies dealt with were very different from each other and KANK itself.
Arth; it focused more on the subject of empowering women in the early 80s, it exposed the mistakes of a male dominated society and the different moral scales that a society uses to measure men and women.
In Silsila, the two protagonists were already in love, and it was about their affair being rekindled after marriage. And even this movie failed to deliver in many aspects; I won't indulge further, but Yash Chopra tried to challenge the moral principles, but he didn't manage to break it. There was no parallel between love and marraige, why do they go back to their respective partners in the end? But discussing this movie is a different matter altogether.
Daag was again another movie made by Yash Chopra, it was based on a novel by Gulshan Nanda, if I am not mistaken. I remember my mum mentioning that. Anyhow it was more of a forced love triangle resulted due to certain events in their life. So basically my only point is that though KANK might not have had an unconventional subject, it sure focused (though badly) on a different issue, in comparison to previous movies based on infidelity.
Edited by *Huma* - 16 years ago
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