Karan Johar now finds Kajol’s character in ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ imperfect. Here’s why…

If you’re a 90’s kid, this film has made your childhood extremely special; and probably continues to do so even today. Karan Johar‘s ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ gave us a story everyone could relate to, and it almost became our mandatory watch on every Friendship Day. Rarely has there been another story of love and friendship, more honest than ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’.

However, director Karan Johar says, he now finds Kajol’s character flawed.

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To remind you, Kajol played Anjali, a girl in her tween age who fell in love with her best friend Rahul (Shah Rukh Khan) but couldn’t earn his love. A pure tomboy in her appearance, Kajol tried to fit into the usual definitions of beauty, only to ridicule herself.

“That film is special for me, but Kajol’s character is something I would not have put that way. In fact, Shabana Azmi called me after the film and scolded me. Now when I look back, I see the flaw in the logic that when she was a tomboy, she didn’t have a boyfriend. But when she grew her hair and wore a saree, she did. I realise that the politics in KKHH are definitely questionable,” Johar says, during a session titled ‘Men, Women and Loneliness’ with Jitesh Pillai.

If you look deeper into it, there lies the usual typecast portrayal of a female character. The popular (and flawed) notion that a woman must LOOK pretty, homely and must follow the usual norms of ‘beauty’ is dominant even today.

Good that he now realises. We still continue to love ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ anyway!

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Ranjini Maitra

Journalist. Writer. Reader. Enthu cutlet. Mood-swing machine. Day dreamer. Sandwiched between ‘live life fully’ and ‘lose some weight’. Mantra of life: Love and love more.