Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001)

THE-LENS September 18, 2026

# **Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...** **Directed by** Karan Johar **Written by** - Karan Johar - Sheena Parikh **Produced by** Yash Johar **Starring** - Amitabh Bachchan - Jaya Bachchan - Shah Rukh Khan - Kajol - Hrithik Roshan - Kareena Kapoor - Rani Mukerji **Review by: Dr Usman Latif Khawaja** Karan Johar’s *Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...* (2001) stands as the most shamelessly overacted movie in the history of Bollywood—a hyper-saturated, 210-minute consumerist carnival that completely distorts the language of cinema into a loud, empty comic circus. Johar rejects any semblance of internal logic, narrative density, or deep psychological restraint. Instead, he constructs a colossal, exhibitionist hodgepodge designed specifically to seduce the naive tastes of the Indian and Pakistani diaspora in the new millennium. It functions not as a realist human …