Alright, this one is gonna' need some explaining but in the future if I watch more Bollywood I won't add a preamble every time. But I loved this film, man. TL;DR  It's Parent Trap + Love Me If You Dare. Only watch it if you think you might like a Bollywood film and enjoy cheesy 90's stuff. Made me like Pajeets even though I know that's as silly as thinking the average Japanese person even remotely resembles what you see in anime. Still... Okay... long rant time: Lemme first just say that I was racist towards Pajeets before it was cool. Right now because of Canada's insane migration policy and the H1B controversy everyone and their Uncle is jumping on the bandwagon  – er, jumping in front of the train. For me, I first became racist because of trying to hire some freelancers and every time being ripped off and disappointed with their trash results. And another time when I was on a beach with my ex and a whole gaggle of them just surrounded us ogling her with their soulless eyes. I almost got in a fight with a few. And then most recently, on a road trip through remote parts of Canada seeing how the whole country was worse than the memes or out of context clips on Twitter. Canada is just as bad as you imagine, maybe even worse. And I'm well aware that they are super nepotistic and takeover Big Tech companies and merely keep it going, but don't really innovate. And I'm well aware of how anti-White and ungrateful many of the 2nd or 3rd generation South Asian diaspora are. So yeah, I am no stranger to racism towards Indians. I get it. Trust me. But I've also met plenty of South Asians I liked a lot and have enjoyed some of their media. For example, I'm very impressed with the podcasts that Naval Ravikant or Balaji S. Srinivasan have been on. And before, I thought it was just NAXALT selection bias with these guys, but now I'm rethinking things from a caste system point of view. I've always been a "snowtep" and believed in the Aryan Invasion theory, but apparently there's very strong evidence mounting in favor of it:   https://keithwoods.pub/p/aryaninvasion   And although I've never been to India, I've always heard two extremes. People either were literally sh*tting their pants the entire time due to the unhygienic living conditions, only to take breaks so they can be accosted by hoards of grubby dysgenic midgets. OR they had an ineffable "Eat Pray Love" experience that changed their life. I always chalked it up to whether you were a backpacker, or a sheltered yuppie walled off in a yoga retreat. But now I'm starting to wonder... In some podcast, Greg Johnson mentioned flying to India and described it as two parallel countries living side by side. Third world chaos and first world articulate folks. (Or something like that.) Well, watching this film, you will see that first hand. The 3 main actors all have light colored eyes and very Caucasian features. I'm sure someone in their family history was White, whether it was during the British occupation or the initial Aryan invasion. Looking at the background dancers v.s. the protagonists is night and day. Not only in skin tone but in phenotype. The two main girls look like Salma Hayek ffs. Very easy on the eyes which makes getting immersed in the plot a breeze. I think for an outsider who thinks they all look the same, we just laugh at their weird official caste system. A Pajeet is a Pajeet. Simple as. Especially when you compare it to the "pigmentocracy" of Latin America. Much less noticeable. There is "shadism" in India but it's more about their phenotype and physiognomy than skin tone. I think the same is true in Russia and in Asia. But again, a much less noticeable caste system than South America since Latin America's caste is basically just how much negroid and/or native DNA do you have. But for Japan it's what ratio of Jomon/Yayoi/Ainu you have. And in SE Asia it's about the subtle differences between indigenous jungle Asians v.s. the ethnic Chinese who run all the businesses. For Russia it seems to be a spectrum of who has more Mongoloid and Turkish DNA v.s. Nordic or Ashkenazi. But of course there's much more mixing and it takes an expert racist to be able to do these physiognomy checks by heart. lol. Or just be an autist like whoever made this website: http://humanphenotypes.net/map/map.html Anyways, I'm rambling. Lemme' actually review the movie. Don't watch it if you have no curiosity about Bollywood films! Personally, I've always wanted to watch Bollywood stuff but never actually sat down and did so. The closest I had seen was "Slumdog Millionaire" back in the day. For me "Kuch Kuch Hota Hai" popped my (authentic) Bollywood cherry and I will definitely watch more. I loved the soundtrack and goofy dance scenes! Which is no surprise because I used to love MIA's music. (Turns out she is anti-vax and based now apparently.)
Likewise, if this song from the movie doesn't get your head bobbin', don't waste your time watching the film. For me, I absolutely love this sh*t:
Somebody needs to sample this in a modern song ^ Hmm, what else? The movie has the Greek Tragedy aspects of that French film, "Love Me If You Dare" combined with the cheesy fun vibes of "Parent Trap" and "Camp Cucamonga." It is laughably bad at times, but it's so dated that you can give it a pass. For example, it always rains to intensify the drama, and the special effects for that are very obviously some Pajeet just inches away off camera with a garden hose. And it's got that Telenovela level of melodrama with long closeups of their tears running down their face as fans blow their hair. And it's got some Korean Drama elements where everything that can go wrong, goes wrong. Drama for drama's sake. Which sounds like it would be sh*t, but they pulled it off. It's charming and moving. And that's why I loved this so much. Everything is so f**kin' formulaic nowadays in the West. And everything is either so damn meta and self aware, or tries so hard to be gritty & realistic. I think Westerners want to yell at the TV and say, "That would never happen!" And for me, I'm sick of that. I watch stuff for escapism. Life is gay enough with all the psyops and trannies and whatever else I have to deal with. I love seeing these foreign films that have plots that piss in the face of realism. And this may be a bit over the top for a comparison, but it's Shakespearean in the sense that fate seems to guide the characters in very serendipitous ways. A cynical Westerner would poo poo this as a plot device, but I welcome it as proper story telling. You want to scream at the TV the whole time because the characters JUST BARELY miss each other. Or as Matt Stone and Trey Parker explain, it's not "and then" storytelling. It's "therefore" or "but" storytelling.
Which requires stuff that would never happen in real life. And so sometimes when I caught myself really enjoying "Kuch Kuch Hota Hai" it felt like a guilty pleasure. Because not only is it a movie about a love triangle, but it's borderline Mexican soap opera tier in its execution! But I can't help it. I friggin' loved it! All the bright colors and flashbacks and synchronicities and cheesy comic reliefs that are reminiscent of "Full House." Idk, I hope you enjoy it too. Definitely watch it if you're a f*g for nostalgia like me. Oh, and it's worth noting that there's Indian nationalist elements in it which I support ofc. For example, they make fun of one guy who's a cuck for England. He's shown as embarrassingly obsessed with British rule and gets converted. And they tease a girl who just got back from London, and see if she has given up her culture by making her sing traditional Hindu songs. But none of this is anti-White or anti-Western. It's just proudly pro-India. Good for them. And all throughout the film they are going to temple and God literally helps the little girl in multiple scenes. So besides the slutty outfits during the college years, it's pretty wholesome. They never even kiss. I'm sure there's more social commentary and trivia that goes over my head though. Because apparently Bollywood used to be ran by Muslims and would push pro Muslim messages like some kind of bizarro (((Hollywood))). I think some of the actors in this are involved in that Muslim scene, but I only just started digging. So who knows? I'll ramble about that later if I find more info out. 9/10 Would watch again.