Karan Johar used to be a master of great candy floss romance and dramas. After Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Ghum Mr Karan Johar said he could not make more of his candy floss. He said he couldn't because he grew up as a person and what does that mean? That means he got philosophical about life, and when philosophy enters out goes the Big hits.
The 2 movies that made me sit up and think were - Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna and Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, both had something unique to say about relationships. Let's take one at a time.
KANK - I don't remember the movie in it's entirety or even a scene or two. But because I am a sucker for Philosophy I like to find that one line that forms the backbone for a movie. The movie shows SRK and Rani drifting apart in relationship and audience could not figure the reason. The movie did not do well because audience were not convinced why they are breaking up! The reason was - There was no actual reason! That's how it works! You just drift apart and you don't know why! That's how I interpret the movie. Audience want concrete stuff like - Drinking Problem, Physical Abuse, Cheating etc to be problems that are legit relationship breakers, but all this is sometimes symptoms to more subtle issue of just not being able to connect. It is explained in many ways people talk about relationships - The Spark is missing, the Chemistry is not there, It is not you it is me!
All these things say the basic underlying conclusion - there is no reason for falling apart in relationship it just happens as part of life. This is not just limited to Love, it can be anything - friendship, spouse, your sibling, or your own child. You can grow up to be apart and it is ok! Well... Mr Karan Johar did show that, audience did not like it and Karan had his first flop, which makes perfect sense, generally when Philosophy enters, out goes the profits and in comes the alcohol. Just kidding.
ADHM - In the case of Ae Dil Hai Mushkil it was a greater find for me!! I was dumb struck by the underlying Philosophy with that movie, or what I got out of it! In fact Karan shocked me with this one!
I don't remember a lot except great songs and crying Ranbir (I gave it a 3.5 in my blog) but If you can last through the entire movie and make it till the end, lead actors have this long discussion regarding Friendship Vs Love. I don't think any movie ever has explicitly said it like this one puts it. The fact is Friendship > Love. The emotion of friendship is devoid of list of Dos, Don'ts. Love is a huge list of demands and nothing more. It is pretty creative way of looking at it. Love has always been put on a pedestal but it is not that great! A lover is in love but has a huge list of demands. You need to marry me. You cannot like anyone more than me. I should know everything you do. You should Love me back in return. Basic point was Love is needy but if a friendship nevers turns into Love then it's all cool. You have freedom and you can always lean on a friend for things. You are free to fall apart without huge paper work and no society will ever come to force you into lot of hard time regarding the breakup.
Friendship is way bigger and better relationship than Love. That just hit me as pretty good message from that movie. Now .... are these the messages that Karan was trying to pass on to me? I don't know, what I know what I got out of Karan Johar as far as Philosophy is concerned.
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