PiraBit
if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
Edwin
The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
Cody
One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.
ash-35524
Only got through a third of the movie, but I think I've seen enough. K3G's got nothing special to offer to the table content wise. It's simply another regressive emotional potboiler with a dreary excess of "feel-good" songs sprinkled in between. A strong emphasis on family values is placed, but it feels too forced and didactic, which will easily bore the audience. SRK and Kajol overact as usual, and the rest of the actors are strictly average. The cinematography is impressive, but that's gonna be a given since Karan Johar is at the helm. The movie drags at a snail's pace, and I simply could not absorb the fakeness and disconnectedness that this movie possessed from reality. I understand that these kinds of movies are supposed to serve as "escapes", but I'm pretty sure that the same core message this movie harps about could easily be conveyed within a more realistically shot and scripted movie. I may have lost a few brain cells watching this movie, but at least I know to avoid such sorts of emotional potboilers in the future.
Takethispunch
Yashvardhan "Yash" Raichand (Amitabh Bachchan) is a rich business tycoon, living in Delhi with his wife Nandini (Jaya Bachchan) and two sons Rahul and Rohan. Rahul is the elder son and was adopted by Yash and Nandini at birth. This is known to everyone in the Raichand household, except Rohan. The Raichand household is highly patriarchal and follows traditions. While grown up, Rahul (Shahrukh Khan) comes across the vivacious Anjali Sharma (Kajol), and they eventually fall in love, but their love is forbidden, because Anjali is from a low-income background. Yash and Nandini soon send Rohan to a boarding school, which all the males in their family have attended. Yash announces his desire for Rahul to marry Naina (Rani Mukherji), as he believes that parents have the right to choose their offspring's spouse, but Naina learns that Rahul is in love with Anjali, and encourages him to pursue her. When Yash comes to know of this, he is enraged, and Rahul promises not to marry Anjali, as he wants to please his father.
Ben Franklin
In many ways this is very typical Bollywood. Boy meets girl. Boy fall in love with girl. Boy upsets family. Boy and girl are cast out, etc, etc. In that respect it is cast from the same mould as thousands of other Bollywood films over the decades. However, on the flip site, it has a cast that can pull this off in style. For a variety of reasons each cast member plays their part superbly from Shah Rukh Khan, who is rarely anything buy excellent, through to Kajol and Kareena Kapoor who both sizzle beautifully each time they are on screen. Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bhaduri are superb as the parents, and even Hrithik Roshan manages to be much more than just some male eye candy for the ladies. The whole family values thing is well worked and there are many messages about pride and brotherly love that will resonate with all ages. In short, if you're looking for a great film for all the family to watch then you can't go far wrong with this one.
CineMage
Read the other reviews, and you will get a sense of how beautiful this film is, how beautiful its actors, how delightful its dance sequences.However, at the end, the cold-blooded, willful, sexist, bullying father reconciles with his son by first *blaming* *him* for obeying him when he threw him out and then by *again* *blaming* *him*, this time for feeling hurt when his father hurt him. Only after this does he apologize.This scene occurs not long after another scene in which one of the father's indirect victims whimpers that her life is worthless without having a father or father-in-law to submit to. She has a loving husband, a loving child, a loving sister, a loving mother, but she ignores all that to consider her life worthless because she has no father-in-law *to* *submit* *to*.These scenes leave such a bad taste that most people will never be able to stomach watching the film a second time. The few who do watch it again will probably imitate a friend of mine, who watches it but always shuts off the DVD just before the final scenes and pretends they occur in a less morally distasteful fashion.Of course, I have one acquaintance (not a friend) who enjoys the film because he thinks it is a father's right to be cold-blooded, willful, sexist, and bullying, and he dislikes the ending because he doesn't think the father should have apologized at all. So some people may actually enjoy the ending, I guess.
