Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #81286 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-09-22
• Format: NTSC
• Number of discs: 2

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Starring: AMITABH BACHCHAN, VIVEK OBEROI, AISHWARYA RAI

Synopsis: 'KYUN! HO GAYA NA...' is a simple story about love and life. But then again who has said that love and life are all that simple...??? Diya Malhotra meets Arjun Khanna under unusual circumstances. It proves to be a perfect beginning to a memorable relationship. Once she arrives in Mumbai she realizes that she will be staying in the same house as Arjun. The ground is thus set for events that were always meant to be. That friendship that develops between Diya and Arjun, spiced up with their opposing views on love and marriage, from the heart of the film. 'KYUN! HO GAYA NA...' is a situational romantic comedy which warns, that cupid is always around when it senses true love.

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Customer Reviews

C'mon, Charlie - this one's got Aishwarya Rai!
Fun loving, happy-go-lucky Arjun Khanna (Vivek Oberoi) believes in the tried-and-true tradition of arranged marriages. And why not? It worked well for his father and his grandfather and so on. His battle cry is "love and defeat are not part of my vocabulary!" So even though he loathes losing whatever competition he enters, he's perfectly fine with any girl his parents pick for him to wed. Diya Malhotra (Aishwarya Rai), on the other hand, is more romantic and strongly espouses the notion of marrying strictly for love.

These two opposing forces soon collide when Diya comes to study in Mumbai and stays with the Khannas, Arjun's father being an old crony of Diya's father. At first, Arjun and Diya annoy each other (with Arjun doing most of the annoying), then later become fast friends. Diya finds herself falling in love with the clueless Arjun, who doesn't yet reciprocate her feelings. Diya packs up and heads home in tears. If there were an intermission, it would be at this point of the film.

The opening minutes of the film's second half is disconcerting. It gets underway with the intro of Uncle Raj (Amitabh Bachchan), who has an impish, childish sense of humor, which he puts to good use in his dealings with the kids of the orphanage he runs. A fair amount of time is focused solely on his character and his orphans and all I kept thinking was "Where are Diya and Arjun?" But things get back on track once Diya reappears. The orphanage, it seems, is where Diya spends a good portion of her time, now that she's back home. But can she manage to forget Arjun? And can Arjun be far behind? Will love win out? Or will something else happen to jeopardize these two people's happiness? And just how did Uncle Raj's tongue and teeth get all blue?

Kyun! Ho Gaya Na... is an easy going romantic comedy, with the last half hour or so finally giving over to a more somber tone. I'm in love with Aish so I never have anything bad to say about her (when I have a baby girl I'm naming her Aishwarya; heck, if I have a boy I'm naming him Aishwarya). No one can roll her eyes or well up in tears or dance like her, although she might stop with the winking. But Aish pulls off that next-door girl persona exceedingly well, for someone with her jaw-dropping looks. Vivek Oberoi is a good-looking chap with a devilish nature and he's mostly good, considering his character is infinitely juvenile. Some of the pranks he pulls on Aish are borderline mean and definitely insensitive. And later on in the film, he overdoes the hurt puppy, doe-eyed act. Amitabh Bachchan is a bit offsetting here, one minute mischievous and playfully spraying the orphans with water pistols, the next minute acting the stern and wise elder. But he's the great Amitabh Bachchan so I guess he knows what he's doing.

The songs aren't bad. There's a song (Dilwalon Suno...) in which Mr. Bachchan actually shows he doesn't have two left feet (unlike in Bunty Aur Babli's Kajra Re). The one I like the most is No No Tum Kisi Pe..., a number done with an R&B/hip-hop flavor, which has tight choreography and really showcases Vivek and Aish's great dancing. A pretty interesting one is Pyar Mein..., which is the first song and reveals the two leads' feelings about love and marriage.

There are 2 discs in this edition. The primary disc, of course, has the film and director Samir Karnik's film commentary. The bonus disc contains some nice extra feature goodies: some deleted scenes; cute out-takes; a making-of-the-film segment; 25 bonus songs (most of which are gleaned from other Aish flicks, one of the songs being the famous Aish-Madhuri dance-off Dola Re number from Devdas); and a very cool, informative music release segment, which was a movie promo done in front of a huge audience - with the actual singers performing live one of the musical tracks (No no Tum Kisi Pe...) and which had Aish and Vivek dropping in and dancing in person (and later being interviewed, along with the director). All in all, a very good bang for your buck. I give it 3 and half stars.

No chemistry between the romantic leads for us
Plot is a romance between a girl who believes in marrying for love and a guy happy to let his parents arrange something. There is a subplot built around an orphanage she does work with which is run by Amitabh Bachchan (who plays a man young at heart and full of childlike pranks).

We were disappointed in this one as Vivek Oberoi and Ashwarya Rai, the romantic leads, had no chemistry. In addition Ash (who is in fact 3 years older than Vivek) looked much older and more mature than him and it didn't seem believable that she would see in someone still a boy (unless she is a sucker for male model looks!).

The role Vivek plays has him being a superficial young man who isn't in touch with his emotions. So he is laughing and avoidant when sensitive emotions are on the agenda. His motto is 'love and defeat are not in my vocabulary'. He played this so well perhaps that we weren't engaged with him (as we had been in Saathiya for instance). When together they looked like they were posing together rather than relating to each other. At other times she seemed even slightly annoyed with him (even allowing for the plot). My co-viewer abandoned the movie half way because she didn't like the lack of chemistry either.

This seems to be rated higher by Ash fans so if you are one of them you may like it more. Some of the movie is catchy and some of the dances not bad. It was nominated for several awards in the music categories. Elsewhere on the Net it is rated quite variably - from below average to average mostly but with scoring from about 4 to 9 out of 10. I'm not keeping this one.

Fun for everybody
Good movie for anybody who likes films about love showing it self at the wrong time and for the right reason. The two leads play well off each other and make the love that they feel natural and real. A lot of funny moments that everybody will love.