He is like an angry wild cat: unfulfilled, unhappy and desperately needing therapy. He can’t seem to snap out of his anger of his ending career as a football (soccer) player and the loss of star’s seductive lifestyle. Take the self-loathing, sarcastic Dev Saran (played disturbingly by Shahrukh Khan), who has an axe to grind with everyone making him unlikely candidate for an affair. Her glances are like heavy artillery that will disarm any man. Those eyes, tell a story all by themselves, like a lost puppy in the Big Apple.
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Her portrayal of Maya with a tangible display of visible emotion is superb. Rani literally writes Maya’s story across her face in an exhilarating and sometimes unsettlingly realistic performance. Their infidelity begins, not with grinding bodies, but the emotional kind with endless stares and casual chats, sharing the depth of their pain and touching the center of their sorrow the kind of intimacy that is reserved for a spouse. Ironic because he is a basket case himself on his way to self-destruction.
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Sure, Dev is the perfect distraction with full of promise that comes with “I understand you babe” assurance. Maya is full of self-doubt and her inability to trust herself is what makes her untrustworthy. Samar “Sexy Sam” (Amitabh Bachchan) is Rishi’s father who leaves for the next hump, and Kamal (Kirron Kher) plays Dev’s mother who seem to manage a catering company. Depressed and desensitized school teacher Maya (Rani Mukherjee) is married to her childhood friend Rishi Talwar (Abhishek Bachchan), a dashing owner of a PR firm, Kamikaze.
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This is not the typical Bollywood movie but again typical is not what Karan Johar is known for.ĭev Saran (Shahrukh Khan), fallen football (soccer) player, is married to sultry Rhea (Preity Zinta), DIVA fashion magazine executive. Yes, Johar with his mastery in storytelling had managed to make us think about our marital relationships, transcending boarders, nationalities or ever cultures. How many of us listen to a friend talking to her husband with indifference and apathy and wonder when is he going to walk out of her life? The depth of character development, shadowed by the impossibility of placing blame, leaves us with sense of values shaken, at the very least, questioning our values rationally conjectured through the changing morals of today’s society. How many of us have been at a wedding knowing this marriage is already over and done with. This is when you begin to toss and turn as if you just developed constipation. It is almost like watching him or her on screen. Suddenly, it occurs to you that you know somebody who is going through the same scenario. The director takes our emotions hostage, forcing us to engage with each character’s pungent emotions in every scene: the confusion, the self doubt, the insecurity, the guilt, the frustration, the sadness ….as if it is a warning signal. Emotionally caustic, what makes this film controversial is its realistic depiction of relationships and the powerful dialogue that not only stings but leaves an everlasting scar. Hauntingly directed, “ Never Say Goodbye” is a cautionary tale of a journey into the seemingly insignificant choices we make and the weight of their consequences. As law of attraction would have it, she finds herself in Dev oddly enough, he becomes her conscious. She is unable to grasp self betrayal that is destroying relationships around her-compromising her own needs, her own dreams to accommodate. Maya is searching for salvation from her own self. Maya, a school teacher, isn’t looking for an affair when she collides with Dev Saran at the train station. So, what does Dev do…pin his hopes and dreams on borrowed time and stolen moment. They have attained complacency in their marriage too old to change, too important to dwell on it and too little time for therapy. Director Johar has mastered depicting the typical scene all too common in metropolitan USA where the dream is flourishing but marriage is decapitated. This is a film about lives of ordinary metro-sexual middle-class America, comfortable financially and on upward climb of the American dream. This provocative drama will be remembered as the affair that ended all affairs. To say this film is thought provoking and serious is actually an understatement.
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Director Karan Johar tells the tale of human drama superbly with brilliant and persuasive storytelling of stolen glances, telling smiles and shuddering stares.
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If you enjoyed Adrian Lyne’s “Unfaithful” or Ricardo de Montreuil’s “La Mujer de mi Hermano” ( My Brother’s Wife), then you will appreciate Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (Never Say Goodbye). Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (Never Say Good Bye), August 2006, 197 min, Dharma Production