Rewatchable for all the right reasons, Kundan Shah’s Goa-set masterpiece was a definitive movie for all the non-heroic middlers of a hard-striving post-liberalization country. – Anupama Chopra Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa (1993) It doesn’t matter which scene you start watching the film from, you can’t stop. The swooning romance between the prince and the dancing girl (her name means pomegranate blossom), the fury of the emperor who is bound by duty and must sacrifice his son’s passion for the larger good of ‘Hindustan’, the music by Naushad and the ultimate song of defiance in the face of authority – pyaar kiya toh darna kya – holds up six decades later. ![]() I don’t know that Hindi cinema has created a doomed love story with the scale, sweep and beauty of K.
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