WHICH FILM OF SRK YOU THINK WAS NOT DESERVING OF A HIT TAG - Page 9

quoting Sharaban:

"should a silly, faulty script wali, dumb si commercial pot boiler KKHH deserves so much of brain storming & indepth analysis ? "

Yes, imo, it's what a movie that became an All Time Blockbuster at that time, deserves...to question it at a time where reception could/should have changed.

It is, although, futile to deny the success that movie had in 1998.

I find it a progress in this thread that members tell their reasons why the respective movie would - probably - not become a hit (or more) nowadays.

Originally posted by: Blueeeee

Sorry, my deep-rooted hatred for K3G makes me a bit ranty about KKHH lol.

I respond just after having read your remark.

How interesting...would you like to tell (if you haven't yet) what triggered this hate?

Originally posted by: Clochette

I don't know about the sarees, but he definitely started to feel something for Anjali he hadn't before.

We won't know if his feeling for Anjali had changed if Anjali had told him about her feelings when still in school with him.

I didn't like that Karan made Anjali looking more feminine through the clothing instead of just making her more mature. To me, it seems that Aman (Salman) didn't even know about Anjali's other side (the more boisterous one).

This. 100%.

About RNBDJ...I really was astonished that the movie became such a success (Blockbuster) as already at the time of release the plot point 'Taani doesn't recognise Suri in Raj' got harsh criticism. There must be something in the movie that attracted the audience...

Originally posted by: Clochette

I respond just after having read your remark.

How interesting...would you like to tell (if you haven't yet) what triggered this hate?

Parental love is conditional on the purity of family lineage, status, and parental control.

And all the parental and domestic abuse was resolved by some bs deference to sanskar and a paltry apology that materially meant nothing. Yashvardhan was abusive to everyone around him just to preserve his class status and caste purity. Absolute scumbag of a human being who deserved to rot in hell.

Anjali sort of pushed Rahul to reconcile with an abusive parent despite his reluctance without a single concern for his emotional or financial security. Major red flag as a partner. I mean, they just packed their entire London household just on the off-chance that Yashvardhan might have grown anything remotely humane in him.

Romanticises elitism, casteism, and familial abuse.

Dil tu pagal hai

Originally posted by: .Sunrise.

Dil tu pagal hai

Hai toh

😅

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So, what does it mean that this movie became a Blockbuster 24 years ago?

Originally posted by: Blueeeee

His love was platonic as a teenager. He fell in love with her as a fully-experienced adult widower who probably had different expectations of love, partnership and even step-parenthood than college wala Rahul. It is as realistic as two childhood friends later falling in love.

Fact remains, Anjali never expressed what she felt for him, we had no way to know how Rahul would have reacted or whether he would have been conflicted about his feelings for her in college. Rahul found her beautiful even then just not sexually. He went after her the moment she stopped taking the jibes like a yaar and got hurt even then. She was a priority even then. We can see the changes, the constant, and growth in his character.

We see none of that for her. Tina was a male gaze, manic pixie character in the first half and Anjali became one in the second half. Anjali expresses her sexuality in the second half; Tina does it in the first. In both the situation, their sexuality is tempered by being good Indian girls.

Was there any instances where Anjali expresses her physical attraction towards Rahul in college? No. Were there any instances of female gaze from Anjali? Again, no.

What is shown is immense care from both Anjali and Rahul for each other — neither attraction nor romantic inclination till Rahul starts falling for Tina.

Now, do tomboyish teenagers/women have no way to express sexual attraction/interest? Do they have no personality apart from basketball and being preoccupied with a clueless dumbass?

Rahul did not know whether Anjali was sexually interested in him as a "tomboy" ergo there was no rejection of the "tomboy" in favour of the sexy, hot girl in both cases.

We don't know how Rahul would have reacted to Anjali had she not turned into feminine- but-sanskari girl in the second half just because Karan did not write that. Karan just doesn't know how to write women and has a very particular caricature of "women to be loved."

Anjali and Tina were the worst-written characters of the film imho.

A better example of where the hero shows explicit bias between two available romantic prospects is actually Mujhse Dosti Karoge where Hritik's character just falls in and out of love per convenience. Rahul's character is not that.

Originally posted by: Blueeeee

People are not rigid constants lol. His wife was dead. He started seeing another woman with the lenses of romantic love which he hadn't done while his wife was alive. It's not that deep. Happens all the time. Rahul did not leave his romantic love for his platonic love lol. Anjali went away and came back at much later and altered time in their lives. Rahul made no decisions regarding Anjali or Tina in the first half lol.

The point of the film was that Rahul was wrong about Shadi and love being one-done thing.