K3G: A melodramatic, escapist and overrated film? - Page 4

K3G gave me major PRETENTIOUS LIFESTYLE goals. 😭

I, too, wanted to flaunt my rental muscle car, in my faux leather / pleather / Govandi market material pants, waiting for Poo.

Poo to aayi nahin par wait karte karte mujhe poopoo zaroor aa gayi... Subah subah chana masala for breakfast is a bad idea.

K3G was a product of its time.

The problem is when you look at these films from the eyes & perspective of 2021, you are bound to fine these films melodramatic, overrated etc etc.

We used to have parallel cinema back then, which was much much closer to reality. Today, the lines have blurred.

YRF , Dharma etc films were never meant to be "realistic" or closer to life. They were just larger-than-life, wholesome and entertaining.

Originally posted by: Maroonporsche

I mean after 3/4 days of tense conversations

Things couldve been resolved amicably 😆

That was a massive issue though. You don't just put sindoor on a woman off some street in Chandni Chowk and bring her home to a family of that social status and expect them to take it well. When you take into account the inter-religious factor, which would have raised another hell in RL situations, and what a megalomaniac AB is in the movie, it was a recipe for disaster. Even SRK knew that he was in deep shit and there was no redemption anytime soon.

But I love how the two find their own slice of heaven in London with nothing but their bollywood love.

Sooraj Barjatya once said in an interview that.... Till the 90s/early 2000s, people used to run to theaters to watch their dreams on the big screen. But over the years, people have started living their dreams... so they're not fascinated by K3G kind of cinematic experiences anymore. 👍🏼

Which is damn true.

Earlier the audiences were fascinated by big cars, bungalows, outdoor locations etc etc in films.

and the focus was less on "logic" and more on "entertainment". 😆

But today, the audience won't digest a Rahul Raichand landing via helicopter at his BIG, hillside mansion, which is supposed to be located in Delhi.😆

Anything that doesn't make sense from real-life perspective, won't be accepted by the audience today, unless it's science-fiction or a film like Bahubali. There were several scenes in Bahubali that didn't make sense, but the audience did accept those scenes, because the film had established a fictional universe like that.

There's a reason why we have "All characters are fictional" disclaimer at the start of films. The characters are inspired by life, but they're not real people. Neither the world they live in is real OR supposed to be real.

Also, today there are like 1000 different ways of entertaining yourself. So, a film like K3G will be trolled by the audience, and panned by the critics for being too OTT, unrealistic and overly dramatic.

So, yes K3G was melodramatic, escapist but NOT overrated ....because it deserves it credit for getting everyone's attention during its time, for its larger-than-life landscape. Plus, it provided 100% wholesome entertainment. It's certainly not a classic or some art, but I don't find the film problematic much because it's just casual entertainment.😆

As long as there's no bad messaging in the film, that might leave a bad impact on an impressionable mind.... I'm fine with it.

One of my all time favorites!

We are calling it unrealistic

But look at the Harry-Meghan scenario 😂 😛 😛

- Harry (Rahul) marries Meghan (Anjali), a girl his family wouldn't approve of.

- Queen and co. (Raichand sahab) created circumstances for Harry and Meghan to leave their household and home in UK (India)

- They leave the country and settle in USA, a different country (UK)

Now they have set up their own chhoti si duniya (chhoti by KJO standards) only several thousand miles away.

5-10 years later, Prince William will reach out to Harry to come back.

Harry will ask William -

Cricket team mein select huey?

Dugna lagaan liya?

Yeh batao, Tumhare itne baal kaise ugg gaye?

Aaa aa aaaaa aaa aa .. Kabhi khushi kabhi gham

It’s a wholesome movie for me and nostalgia works for me as I grew up watching that movie , everytime it used to come on the tv and I used to watch it with my dad . I obviously don’t watch tv now but I do keep revisiting this movie every few months on Netflix 😎😌

Originally posted by: Rhimjhimsawan

It hits the right notes and the right emotions. The movie is really silly, over the top, it is embellished with unnecessary things but after everything is said and done the movie focuses on certain relationships that we relate too. I don't know any other bollywood movie relationship that can top the bond Rahul had with his mother Nandini in the movie. It was so simple but so touching.

It is the surely one of the highlights of the movie for me . 🥺

Originally posted by: Maroonporsche

I mean after 3/4 days of tense conversations

Things couldve been resolved amicably 😆

Sometimes people don't speak to each other for fear less than that.

I think the problem here is that no one play the intermediary.

It's Rohan who did it years later when he was grown up enough.

Originally posted by: CrimeMasterToto

We are calling it unrealistic

But look at the Harry-Meghan scenario 😂 😛 😛

- Harry (Rahul) marries Meghan (Anjali), a girl his family wouldn't approve of.

- Queen and co. (Raichand sahab) created circumstances for Harry and Meghan to leave their household and home in UK (India)

- They leave the country and settle in USA, a different country (UK)

Now they have set up their own chhoti si duniya (chhoti by KJO standards) only several thousand miles away.

5-10 years later, Prince William will reach out to Harry to come back.

Harry will ask William -

Cricket team mein select huey?

Dugna lagaan liya?

Yeh batao, Tumhare itne baal kaise ugg gaye?

Aaa aa aaaaa aaa aa .. Kabhi khushi kabhi gham

Thank you for making us laugh. 👍🏼