Line #12 Film/KuchKuchHotaHai


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4	''Kuch Kuch Hota Hai'' (or ''Something Happens'') is Karan Johar's debut film starring Creator/ShahRukhKhan, Creator/{{Kajol}} and Creator/RaniMukherji, released in 1998. It was seen as a rebuttal to another popular hit named ''Film/DilToPagalHai'' that contended that friendship and love were different and could never overlap. This movie's main message, in contrast, was that love can blossom from friendship. Known for its catchy music, [[ThoseTwoActors hit jodi]] of Creator/ShahRukhKhan and Creator/{{Kajol}}, and being very very sappy.
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6	Rahul (Khan) and Anjali (Kajol) are best friends in St. Xavier's College. Tina (Mukherji), a transfer student from Oxford, arrives and quickly catches Rahul's attention. Anjali starts to get jealous and realizes that she is falling in love. But unfortunately for her, Rahul has eyes only for Tina and she leaves in the middle of the term, unable to take it. Rahul and Tina get married and have a daughter. Tina dies after giving birth and leaves a set of letters that reveal what happened to her eight-year-old daughter, who vows to fix up her father with his long-lost best friend.
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8	It is thematically similar to the Creator/RyanReynolds film ''Film/DefinitelyMaybe'' but it predates that movie by a decade.
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10	!!This film contains examples of:
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12	* AlmostKiss: Happens with Rahul and Tina.
13	* AndStarring: Creator/SalmanKhan (Aman) is credited with this.
14	* BeautifulAllAlong: Zigzagged. Anjali is regarded as a tomboy, and her first attempt at dressing up turns her into a laughingstock. But both Rahul and Tina admit that she is pretty and merely had a bad fashion sense. Of course, years later, Anjali has [[ShesAllGrownUp graduated into a breathtaking beauty]].
15	* BelatedLoveEpiphany: Anjali had years of Rahul to herself, but she only realizes that she is in love with him when his attention is no longer focused on her.
16	* BettyAndVeronica:
17	** Anjali is the Betty and Tina is the Veronica to Rahul's Archie.
18	** Taken a step further. Karan Johar has explicitly confirmed that the movie is directly inspired by Archie comics, down to Mr. Malhotra, Tina's father and the college principal, being based on Mr. Weatherbee, besides the main love triangle.
19	* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: The movie starts with the birth of Anjali and the death of her mother Tina.
20	* BreakUpSong: Cue "Tujhe Yaad Na Meri Aayi".
21	* CulturalTranslation: During the scene where the camp attendees play charades and guess movies by the scenes they are acting out, the German dub replaces the names of the Bollywood movies mentioned to Hollywood titles.
22	* DeadGuyJunior: Anjali isn't dead, but she has been estranged from Rahul and Tina for years. The latter chooses to name her newborn daughter after her, as a way to memorialize their former friendship.
23	* DeathByChildbirth: Tina dies shortly after giving birth to her and Rahul's daughter due to bleeding organs. She survives long enough to name her, as well writing eight letters to be given to her daughter for her first eight birthdays.
24	* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: The LoveTriangle between Anjali-Rahul-Tina ends after Tina's death. Rahul was initially reluctant to remarry due to his principal to marry only once in a lifetime. However, upon meeting Anjali again after losing contact for years and eventually realized to have fallen genuinely in love with her, he pursues her again. After bing heartbroken twice when Anjali almost marries her fiancé, Aman, Rahul and Anjali could eventually get together when Aman gives his blessing for their marriage.
25	* DownerBeginning: The film starts with Rahul tearfully staring at Tina's funeral pyre as he remembers their time together, along with Tina's dying wish.
26	* FanService: Lots.
27	** One instance is during the song "Yeh Ladki Badi Anjaani Hai" when the wind blows Anjali's sari open, making her bare her stomach.
28	** There's a required WetSariScene, with a woman dressed in her soaking wet sari.
29	* FirstLove: Rahul for Anjali and Tina for Rahul.
30	* GirlinessUpgrade: Happens to Anjali. Her first attempt in college is disastrous, but she has gotten better years later.
31	* GratuitousEnglish: Justified with Tina, since she ''was'' raised in England. As for the others, it seems that English is a second language at St. Xavier, as everyone uses it to a degree.
32	* GrayRainOfDepression: It starts to rain when Rahul reveals to Anjali that he is going to confess his love to Tina.
33	* HappyRain: The girl in wet sari happens to love the rain that soaks her.
34	* HighSchoolRocks: Technically, they're supposed to be at a college, but otherwise they fit.
35	* HotForTeacher: Mrs. Braganza attracts attention from both her students and Mr. Malhotra.
36	* HowDadMetMom: The first half of the film is dominated by a flashback showing how Rahul and Tina meet, as well as their friendship with Anjali.
37	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Why Anjali leaves Rahul to Tina and why [[spoiler: Aman leaves Anjali to Rahul.]]
38	* KidsPlayMatchmaker: Tina's letter to her daughter, Anjali, asks her to bring Rahul and her namesake together. This forms the plot of the film's second half.
39	* LoveHurts: And how! Cue Song ''Tujhe Yaad Na Meri Aayi, Kissi Se Aab Kya Kehna'' roughly translated as ''You did not remember me, what's left for me to say?''.
40	* TheMourningAfter: Rahul's motto is "one life, one love, one death", so he initially refuses to marry again after Tina's death. Changing his mind is his daughter's goal for the duration of the film.
41	* NewOldFlame: Anjali is already engaged to Aman, but by the time she and her long-lost best friend, Rahul, meet again after being estranged for years, she comes to love Rahul again.
42	* NiceGuy: Aman. He even [[spoiler: makes Anjali marry Rahul instead of him on ''his supposed-wedding day'', because he knows that she loves Rahul, even though he himself loves her a lot.]]
43	* OneSteveLimit: Averted. There is Anjali Khanna, Rahul's and Tina's daughter, and Anjali Sharma, their friend and the former's namesake. One scene in the film is about a telephone miscommunication that leads to the former conversing with the latter's fiancé, Aman, while the latter converses with Rahul, both unknowingly.
44	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Sardarji, the mute boy at the summer camp, [[spoiler:is revealed to be not mute after all, when he tearfully asks Anjali to stay after she decides to fast-track her wedding to Aman.]]
45	* PapaWolf: {{Exploited\|Trope}}. Anjali pretends to be ill in order to lure Rahul to the camp she is staying.
46	* PatrioticFervor: Savita, Rahul's mother. The first thing she does upon arriving at the Shimla summer camp is to chastise the summer camp owner, Mr. Almeida, for flying the Union Jack.
47	* PlatonicLifePartners: Rahul and Anjali start as this, but things begin to unravel when Tina arrives and attracts Rahul's attention, while Anjali realizes that she is in love with her supposedly platonic best friend.
48	* PowerOfLove: The movie ends happily because of this.
49	* RomanticRain: It's raining at the summer camp when [[spoiler:Rahul finally realizes that he is falling for Anjali]].
50	* SadBollywoodWedding: Anjali's [[spoiler: almost-]] wedding to Aman.
51	* SecondLove: Following his wife Tina's death, Rahul eventually finds love again with his longtime best friend, Anjali.
52	* SexySoakedShirt: Actor Creator/ShahRukhKhan's character gets soaked. See it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87NN-R3WWbs here]].
53	* ShipTease:
54	** Principal Malhotra has lots with Ms. Braganza in the flashback. They're not together in the present, but she reappears during the wedding scene at the end.
55	** [[PuppyLove Sardarji kisses Anjali Khanna on the cheek]] when she arrives at the summer camp, much to her shock. He does this again in the ending, though this time she doesn't mind.
56	* TokenMinority: Rifat Qazi, the Muslim landlady of the boarding house where Anjali lived during college.
57	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Anjali and Tina.
58	* TrainStationGoodbye: When Anjali leaves Rahul to Tina. Includes a PleaseDontLeaveMe by Rahul.
59	* TwoGirlsAndAGuy: Tina, Anjali, and Rahul.
60	* TheVoiceless: The Sikh child at the camp never utters a word, [[spoiler:except when [[PleaseDontLeaveMe tearfully pleading Anjali not to leave the camp]]]].
61	* WhyWasteAWedding: [[spoiler: When Aman realizes that Anjali is in love with Rahul, he makes them marry in the same wedding ceremony that was supposed to be for him and Anjali.]]

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