Gurukul.
"Mohabbatein" is a film which is like two separate movies put together. One, the portion pitting Amitabh Bachchan with Shah Rukh Kahn is great. The other, about three college students and their love lives, is quite different...more inconsequential and far less interesting. In hindsight, I wish the movie had focused far more on the relationship between Khan and Bachchan.
Principal Narayan Shankar (Amitabh Bachchan) is the head of a prestigious university in India...much like a Harvard or Oxford. He is very strict and emotionally constricted. However, when a new music teacher arrives, Shankar is confused by Raj Aryan (SRK) and his strange ways. In most ways, they seem like opposites. Shankar is logical and emotionally constricted, whereas Aryan is fun-loving, spontaneous and emotional. Somehow, for nearly half the movie, they manage to coexist in the same school...which is hard to imagine! But when Aryan violates a rule about having women at a school party, there is a HUGE chasm between the two. At this point, you learn the truth about who Aryan is and why he's come to this schook, Gurukul. What is his secret? See the film.
As for the three students and their relationships, they mostly seem rather stereotypical of Indian romances, such as the snobby girl who is the object of one student's attentions and another who wants to be more than platonic friends with another. None of these are bad so much as they just aren't as compelling nor as interesting as the main story with Bachchan and SRK. Overall, worth seeing but both Bachchan and SRK have done better.
"Mohabbatein" is a film which is like two separate movies put together. One, the portion pitting Amitabh Bachchan with Shah Rukh Kahn is great. The other, about three college students and their love lives, is quite different...more inconsequential and far less interesting. In hindsight, I wish the movie had focused far more on the relationship between Khan and Bachchan.
Principal Narayan Shankar (Amitabh Bachchan) is the head of a prestigious university in India...much like a Harvard or Oxford. He is very strict and emotionally constricted. However, when a new music teacher arrives, Shankar is confused by Raj Aryan (SRK) and his strange ways. In most ways, they seem like opposites. Shankar is logical and emotionally constricted, whereas Aryan is fun-loving, spontaneous and emotional. Somehow, for nearly half the movie, they manage to coexist in the same school...which is hard to imagine! But when Aryan violates a rule about having women at a school party, there is a HUGE chasm between the two. At this point, you learn the truth about who Aryan is and why he's come to this schook, Gurukul. What is his secret? See the film.
As for the three students and their relationships, they mostly seem rather stereotypical of Indian romances, such as the snobby girl who is the object of one student's attentions and another who wants to be more than platonic friends with another. None of these are bad so much as they just aren't as compelling nor as interesting as the main story with Bachchan and SRK. Overall, worth seeing but both Bachchan and SRK have done better.