It wasn't that bad guys

Well, happened to catch another of the grand bollywood films 'Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna', popularly called KANK. And almost everyone whom i've talked to about the movie seems to find it a long piece of crap. But I think I need to confess ... I LIKED IT... Few things in the movie have left an indelible impression on my mind and those few things happen to be a little more than visual treats like Abhishek, Arjun Rampal, John Abraham and Shah Rukh, who I absoluetly drool over.

Yes, it was really dumb to see a bride, all decked up sitting on a bench in the park on her wedding day introspecting or rather waiting for her knight in shining armor who finally did appear. Well, I guess that's what Shah Rukh is best suited to play - every woman's dreamboy.
It was also a little funny to see Mr. senior Bachan or 'Sexy Sam', sexing up with the hot babes and hitting upon chandigarh !!! But that's Ok, All men are the same... gross!!!

What I basically liked is the concept ... The juncture where the johar boy has shown Sam asking Maya to abandon his own son for Dev so as to privelege him an oppurtunity for true love which she herself is incapable of giving , seemed to be the most intelligent scene in the film. Secondly, I also liked Maya's conviction in her love for Dev when she calls it an act of selfishness but not a mistake. You can't be sorry for being in love ... right ???
And finally, that concluding sentence of the film ... Ain't it true ???
The reason for getting married has to be, not peer pressure, not parental pressure, not social pressure, not biological pressure, not friendship, not some sorta compromise, not fear of loneliness but love and only love. And I think this is what will not eliminate but minimise the chances of discontentment and infidelity and maximise the chances of happiness for the rest of the life.
I vehemently proclaim that I DO NOT support the decision of both the characters of cheating on their spouses, especially Dev because he had a kid. I kinda belong to that old school of thought that marriage is a commitment once made, must be fulfilled till the end of life and beyond but then to get the strength to do so will come only if one marries 'the right one'.

Finally I would like conclude by saying that Mr. Karan Johar could have done better than making the characters being thrown out of their respective homes and punished for 3 years which seemed like an exile and thereby trying to be politically correct. I think he should have been a little more forthright about the issue....

Well, my rating of the movie 3.5/5....

PS : And I know that I sound like a marriage expert but those were just ramblings in my mind waiting to be put in words. Funda maarne mein achha lagta hai !!!