Kaho Naa... Pyarr Hai

[tikistitch]

Sooo, this one was Hrithik Roshan's first movie.



And guess what? HE'S IN A DOUBLE ROLE! You didn't see that one coming, eh?

This one seems like ... well, I've started seeing Bollywood producers as these Dr. Frankensteins, who actually don't have enough story (even with song breaks) to fill up an entire four hours these messes often take, so they go into their secret laboratories (there are flasks! And Jacobs ladders!) and sew together bits of other movies.

KNPH seems like an Elvis picture grafted onto an 80s era Miami Vice-type action movie. The year is actually 2000, but it seems a lot older. It starts out with Hrithik coming out to a performance, starting to sing, and, adorably, miming on guitar. And then, surprise! He was only dreaming. Now, here is where I started to fall in love with this picture. Hrithik wakes up, untangles himself from the sheets, and figures out stardom was only a dream. And then he SMILES! Like, good dream yay!

Anyways, he's a poor boy from the wrong side of the tracks (or whatever the equivalent is in India) and a struggling musician who works days as a car salesman, but he falls for a rich girl (Amisha Patel) when her daddy buys her a car. Daddy tries to keep them apart, but after several cheerful 60s Elvis type numbers on a cruise ship, Rohit becomes a big star. Will our star-crossed lovers get together now? But, nooooo! It's still not even the intermission, and there is A TWEEST!

Flash forward, and our heroine meets some green eyed dude wearing half a shirt and dancing to trance music under a waterfall at a club full of Kool Klub Kids. It's Hrithik Roshan! But, he's also a doppelganger for her ex-boyfriend, Rohit. This, by the way, is never explained, other than the father saying that everyone has a double. So, go to India, it's CRAWLING WITH DUDES WHO LOOKS LIKE HRITHIK ROSHAN. Swear to god. Anyways, that's why in the video above, Amisha Patel is looking all weirded out and running away from Hrithik.

Anyways, after a couple more romantic numbers (this Hrithik is rich and wear glasses, so he's NOTHING LIKE the other Hrithik), then we get the Miami Vice dudes coming in, so there's chases and people getting shot and stuff your probably-bored-by-now husband will like.

So, did *I* like it? Hell yeah! This is, as I said, Hrithik's first movie as an adult and it launched him as a big star. You can see why: lots of catchy music, several nice and well filmed production numbers, and, really, enough plot for about fourteen American movies.