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. 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. 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. The film is unrealistic, hard to believe, and just never rings true. 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. And then begins the so-called extramarital affair. The dialogue gets quite cheap and cliché. The couples start fighting and shouting and insulting each other intensively in what resembles the cheapest soap operas, or a very bad school play. Towards the end of a partly amusing first half, the comedy ends. Many scenes did not contribute to the film in any way. The "Black Peast" sequence should have been deleted. Amitabh Bachchan's affairs with young prostitutes and his pathetic behaviour are not funny at all and are actually very embarrassing. Most of the time the comedy is ridiculous. 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. And considering two hours were just trashy jokes and loud songs, I would've deleted at least one hour of it. But while Abhishek and Preity become good friends, Shahrukh and Rani clearly want more, which later on grows as expected. Soon, Shahrukh befriends Rani and Preity befriends Abhishek. This is the story of two couples (Shahrukh and Preity Abhishek and Rani), in two troubled, unsuccessful relationships. I really like the combination of comedy and drama, laughs and tears in Hindi films, but it doesn't work here.
It's not, though it's partially decent entertainment. Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna was supposed to be Karan Johar's most mature work.
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