Kabhi "kank" na dekhnaa!! This movie had the best ending of any BW film I've seen. The only way to improve on the ending of this film would have been to move it 190 minutes closer to the beginning.

I must congratulate KJ on blending unsympathetic, whiny, self-absorbed characters with a convoluted, self-indulgent and incredibly overblown storyline. I should also thank him for making me think kindly of Mother India, which now seems like a 10 minute comic riot when compared to this month-long episode of "Hamare Zindagii ke dinoN". I was easily able to understand how desperation to get out out of it caused Big B to have a heart attack. Talk about life imitating art! Still, it must have been less painful than being stuck in the nightmare of that movie. The guy is well-read, thoughtful and well-spoken off screen, but is painted a sleazy lecher in the first 45 minutes of this film. When Preity says "this marriage is over", my only reaction was "but this movie's still got 40 minutes to go!" Poor Kajol should have avoided this stinker like the plague, opting for classy, high-quality drama like "Girlfriend" instead.

I now have a soft spot for Preity, and hope that starring in this clunker doesn't weigh her down with too much bad karma. Now I'm off to do pooja for whichever deity inspired the FF button, to say thanks for preventing my suicide.

I don't really like any of Karan Johar's films especially "Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham" they are all slow, boring and a complete show off but not "Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna". The film was so nice, funny, peaceful and emotional about a love between 2 people that broke all relationships; it is a completely different love story that is so much based on reality. The story is quite similar to "Humko Deewana Kar Gaye" but that was awful. Songs are amazing and the song "Tum Hi Dekho Naa" is so heartfelt. John Abraham's special appearance in the song "Where's the party tonight" was the best scene in the film. The movie was about 3.5 hours and I enjoyed every second. It really doe's not matter how long a film is e.g. 3.5 hours of good stuff is better than 1.5 hour of crap. 2006 was a terrific year for Bollywood movies & music keep up the good work!

Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna was supposed to be Karan Johar's most mature work. It's not, though it's partially decent entertainment. I really like the combination of comedy and drama, laughs and tears in Hindi films, but it doesn't work here. This is the story of two couples (Shahrukh and Preity; Abhishek and Rani),in two troubled, unsuccessful relationships. Soon, Shahrukh befriends Rani and Preity befriends Abhishek. But while Abhishek and Preity become good friends, Shahrukh and Rani clearly want more, which later on grows as expected. The film has a great share of loopholes. First, it is so exhaustingly long. Almost four hours. And considering two hours were just trashy jokes and loud songs, I would've deleted at least one hour of it. I also think that while the combination of comedy and drama was handled quite well in Kal Ho Naa Ho, it was overdone here: the comedy was more of a parody, the drama was more of a soap opera. Most of the time the comedy is ridiculous. Amitabh Bachchan's affairs with young prostitutes and his pathetic behaviour are not funny at all and are actually very embarrassing. The "Black Peast" sequence should have been deleted. Many scenes did not contribute to the film in any way.

Towards the end of a partly amusing first half, the comedy ends. And there starts the drama. The couples start fighting and shouting and insulting each other intensively in what resembles the cheapest soap operas, or a very bad school play . The dialogue gets quite cheap and cliché. And then begins the so-called extramarital affair. Many ask, does Karan Johar really know what marriage is all about? My answer is a definite no, and he's not even smart enough to be able to guess. The film is unrealistic, hard to believe, and just never rings true. The main characters in this film always bump into each other coincidentally in the streets of New York as if it was as small as Chandni Chowk. Johar's cheesy, theatrical and overly emotional dialogue could be forgiven if the characters weren't wealthy people living in New York 2006 - for your information, they don't speak like this. Maybe that's what people like about Bollywood though, which is known for its escapist and larger-than-life melodramas, but even in such films, the context is always clear, as opposed to this film which pretends to understand marriage. Moreover, the setting is ridiculously exaggerated - the lavish houses and interiors make no sense, sorry but they don't look like people who could afford them. More than anything, this tendency to choose foreign countries to tell stories of Indians is really getting pathetic. India is such a wonderful, culturally rich country, why go elsewhere?

Shahrukh Khan, in one of his most unpleasant performances, is irritating for the most part. He is a great actor, but this role is not for him as he fails to register its complexity and mostly overacts. In some scenes he is witty and funny as always here too, but his character is too exaggerated and underwritten to work. Rani does not really act, she mostly cries. I mean, she is a waterfall. I think she should learn that displaying grief is not all about tears. And there are far too many tears there. I wonder how much glycerin she used in this film. And she too does not have what it takes to play her character's inner struggle which is never brought out well and hers is overall a weak act.

Those who really do well are the supporting actors, particularly Preity Zinta and Abhishek Bachchan. Zinta is excellent as Rhea. Despite a relatively small role (which Johar must be slapped for),she comes across as a strong, serious career woman and is always credible and dignified. She convincingly displays Rhea's tough outside and soft inside, and her gestures and line delivery are spot on. You just wonder where she left her bubbly and perky tomboy watching this restrained act. Abhishek is a revelation. His romantic and loving Rishi is such a lovely character, and he just does it so well. His dramatic scenes are difficult to play and he does not disappoint. Kirron Kher is spectacular in her role.

KANK is visually pleasing, partly watchable, and only occasionally entertaining. Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy's soundtrack is fantastic and the songs are beautifully pictured. "Where's The Party Tonight?" is catchy, "Tumhi Dekho Naa" is very romantic, "Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna" is sad and moving. The film's ending is overlong, could have been shortened, but worse than that, it shows how morally damaged the entire outlook of the writers is - a story of infidelity is romanticised in a way that really looks peculiar. KANK is a poor film, it is poorly executed, but it does have glipses of Bollywood's unique style, colour and beauty, and that's why I do understand people who are willing to forgive its flaws.