Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001)
Viewing Platform: Netflix
The
affluent, successful business owner Yash Raichand and his wife
Nandini are unable to have children of their own. One day Yash brings
home an orphan and adopts him, and their family feels complete. Eight years later, Rahul becomes a big
brother, much to everyone's surprise. Rohan is loved, adored and
considered a miracle baby, but he still knows his mother loves his
older brother best, a brother he grows up thinking is a blood
relation. It isn't until ten years after his brother suddenly leaves
home that Rohan overhears the truth. Will Rohan succeed in bringing
his brother home and reunite his broken family? Or will their
father's pride continue to prevent reconciliation?
*There
was so much sadness in this family, not even the incredibly hokey
early 2000s dance numbers and ridiculous fashion could lighten the
heaviness in this film. Who separates a mother from her child for a
decade just because the father doesn't agree with the child's choice
in mate? What wife says nothing to the man who is responsible for
tearing their happy family apart? Perhaps there were cultural
elements to this story that I could just not understand, including a
son that is so “obedient” as to never challenge a parent's
incorrect judgment. Sure, everyone cries (spoiler alert) and is
repentant at the end, but it doesn't justify the fact this man stole
a decade of love from his own family all because of something he said
in anger that no one dared to correct because he was the “god” of
the house. Plus it had that high pitched, nasally female voice I
dislike from that period and several provocative dance numbers with
scantily clad women. I won't watch this again.*
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