Director: Karan Johar
Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Rani Mukherjee

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai is a film that drills in the old adage – to be in love you have to first be the best of friends.

A love triangle with little difference, Rahul Khanna (Shah Rukh Khan) and Anjali Sharma (Kajol) are the best of friends who paint the campus red. Tina (Rani Mukherjee) is the Oxford-educated, bhajan-singing daughter of the college principal (Anupam Kher) who returns from London and has Rahul fall promptly in love with her.

So while Rahul and Tina do the necessary song and dance sequences amidst castle ruins in the English countryside, Anjali also falls in love with her best friend. So far so predictable then.

To cut a long story short, Rahul and Tina marry, the latter dies leaving behind as her legacy a bunch of letters (the oft-repeated flashback device) and a daughter to reunite her father with old friend Anjali.

The racy beginning of the film is marked by a sparkling chemistry between Khan, Kajol and Rani. Consummate performers in their own right, Khan with his powerhouse of energy and Kajol with her natural exuberance are quintessential yuppies.

Yet, more than once they tend to go over the top. It is, however, the gorgeous Rani who steals the show. Oozing oomph from every pore, she also proves herself an actress whose time has come.

In his much-hyped debut film, director Karan Johar tries to rekindle the Khan-Kajol magic of the phenomenally successful love lore Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge in which he assisted director Aditya Chopra. And he almost does.