Indeed the script mobilises an arsenal of sturdy standard plot tropes to keep the action evolving. Still, that’s not to say Kabhi Kabhie is in any way radical. Easy answers aren’t enough here, and its happy ending is sound, earned and bittersweet.
Or to put it another way, the film has a tortured, serious quality that seemed to me to be not 'purely escapist’. send the storyline into the murky depths of complex, hard-to-pin-down emotions that in life (and in the movies) are rarely resolved in anything like a satisfactory way. But the truly intriguing thing about Kabhi Kabhie is that Chopra and co. Here what love means is tested against duty and family obligations, which, of course, is conventional enough (and indeed is the very foundation of this kind of melodrama).
Maybe it was the theme, which contemplates, with deadly earnestness, the cost and rewards of 'love’ in a plot that spans a generation. But when a colleague of Chopra’s first looked at this melodrama, a man invested in the process, he told the filmmaker (with apparently the utmost seriousness) that what they had on their hands was not a commercial story with great tunes, good acting, romance, action, lots of incident, and sex appeal but it was, in fact, an art film! INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL OF MELBOURNE: Yash Chopra’s Kabhi Kabhie, originally released in 1976 and a box office hit in its day, is now considered a classic of Bollywood cinema.
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