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Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006)

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Indian director Karan Johar's three-hour feature Never Say Goodbye (Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna) utilizes and celebrates the common Bollywood practice of combining multiple genres and elements - comedy, drama, romance and flashy musical numbers - into one picture of epic length, to maximize cinema's capacity for entertainment. The story concerns two Manhattan couples. Soccer player Dev (Shah Rukh Khan) and his magazine editor wife, Rhea (Preity Zinta) are happily married despite occasional stress on

Sep 25, 2006

$3.2M

Yash Raj Films

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For something so silly and so long, however, the film is surprisingly engaging, thanks largely to its very watchable actors; it's easy to see why they are international stars in the world of Hindi films.

August 26, 2006 Comment
New York Times
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Generally good but works better in bits than as a whole.

August 17, 2006 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
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For a good part of his run time, Johar succeeds in crafting something genuinely absorbing and fairly uncompromising--which makes it all the more disappointing when he ultimately succumbs to his more formulaic candyfloss instincts.

August 20, 2007 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Comment
TheMovieReport.com

It's sad as all hell at times, you bet, but it can also be riotously funny and the musical numbers are pure unadulterated joy.

September 3, 2006 Full Review Source: Montreal Film Journal | Comment
Montreal Film Journal

If you like this sort of thing, bring a pillow for your butt, you will need it.

August 21, 2006 Comment
Greenwich Village Gazette

A film that's clearly out to raise eyebrows, even as it provides all the over-the-top spectacle that mainstream Indian cinema is famous for.

August 17, 2006 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Film Journal International

Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (Never Say Goodbye) contains set pieces so spine-chillingly effective that people may still be talking about them 20 years from now.

August 17, 2006 Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | Comment
L.A. Weekly

At over three hours long it's left to the lighter comic moments, provided by Amitabh Bachchan as an outrageously flirtatious pensioner, to keep the momentum going.

August 15, 2006 Full Review Source: BBC | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna

Absolutely fantastic! Here is a beautiful, and heartwarming movie that follows a pair of unlikely individuals who meet and are connected by one factor: true love. Dev and Maya are total strangers when they meet in a garden. Maya is hesitant about marrying her closest, childhood friend Rishi. Dev is a married man with a

February 8, 2008
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Leo L

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A lot of people didn't like this film cause it was controversial (regarding the marital affair) but i loved it! My only bad comment is that it was just way to long!

September 12, 2011
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