In a nutshell, k3g’s plot can be summed up as, “what if Bollywood made a sanskaari version of Succession?” While it’s unfair to compare the two, once you go down that rabbithole, it’s tempting to especially focus on how both stories are basically about how one family is thrown into unending loops of misery because of the pigheadedness of their patriarch. In a nutshell, k3g’s plot can be summed up as, “what if Bollywood made a sanskaari version of Succession?” Replace Logan Roy with the equally stubborn Yash Raichand – played exquisitely by a steadfast Amitabh Bachchan – and you’d also find some parallels between the erratic Kendall Roy and the eldest Raichand brother, Rahul (SRK, who else?). But tongue-twisters aside, no other film quite embodies the larger-than-life Bollywood film than Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham… You know, all the trappings of real cinema. KJOs 2001 classic has it all tense relationships between father and son, elaborate song and dance sequences, maternal melodrama, hormonal college kids driving around in Lamborghinis and falling in love after declarations of chandu-ke-chacha-ne-chandu-ki-chachi-ko-chandni-chowk-pe-chandi-ki-chamach-se-chatni-chataayi. That one film whose songs are so overused at every sangeet ceremony even 20 years later that many choreographers end up humming “Banno ki Saheli” in their sleep. It’s the film your NRI cousins never shut up about. K3G is more than a film it is the quintessential contemporary Bollywood film.
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