Always Kabhi Kabhi
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Always Kabhi Kabhi is a 2011 Hindi
romance film
directed by Roshan Abbas
, and produced by Shahrukh Khan
under Red Chillies Entertainment
. It introduces Ali Fazal
, along with Giselli Monteiro
while Zoa Morani, Satish Shah
, Lilette Dubey, Vijay Raaz
, Mukesh Tiwari
and Manoj Joshi
play supporting roles. The film released on 17 June 2011. It focuses on four teenagers embarking on a dramatic journey during their incident-packed final year at school.
); the cool guy, who falls in love with Aishwarya(Giselli Monteiro
)who is about to become a bollywood actress. Aishwarya is a new student who befriends Sam on her first day, and the two fall in love first sight.A Shakespeare play approaches in which Aishwarya automatically gains the role of Juliet. Sam tries his level best to learn the lines of Romeo so as to impress Mrs. Das and gain the role of Romeo. He succeeds in the end. The next two friends, Tariq (Satyajeet Dubey) and Nandy(Nandini) (Zoa Morani), who love to fight and argue with each other,but do not understand that they are actually in love with each other.Nandini's parents don't spend any time with her and are always travelling. In the absence of her parents, she goes to illegal clubs and parties everyday and spends money lavishly. Tariq has the burden of getting into MIT.
They realize their love for each other during Nandy's struggle to get approval of her apology after she forwards Tariq's MIT denial letter ,oblivious to the fact that he had not read it himself. Sam gives a party in Hellfire but then there's a raid and he gets arrested while saving Aishwarya. The two corrupt policemen try to bag 50,000 rupees from Sam.Sam tries his best to avoid the policemen and tries to pay the policemen a little by little and aishwarya breaks up him because during the party,Nandy's toyboy offers him a drag and even though Aishwarya begged him to leave,he agreed to smoke weed because the toyboy makes fun of him and asked hiim to be a man.After she heard that Sam had sacrifised himself to save her,they make up.During Aishu's 18th birthday,Sam confesses his love for her only to be caught together by her mother and her agent renames her as Kashish for the fims and even persuades her to do a photoshoot in which she only wears a bikini.When Sam finds out that the prize money of the inter-school shakespeer play competition is Rs.50,000(the amount he owes the policemen),he begins to put more pressure on the group to come in time for the practices.Meanwhile,Aishwarya is being offered a movie conract that she doesnt want to do.during a meeting,she rips the contract and runs to meet Sam and the others and continue their practice for the competition.Meanwhile,enraged by Aishu's absence during practice,Sam confronts he,oblivious to what she had done for him while Aishu didnt know about the money he owes the policemen and does not understand the reason of his anger and runs into the streets only to be hit by a car aand goes into coma.Aishwarya's mother confronts Sam about the accident because she believed that he was the cause of the accident and does not permit him to see her.While dropping Aishwarya's clothes,Tariq and Nandy notice Aishwarya's phone has an electronical diary in it and reads it,it shows her point of view about everyone in the group and talks about how their parents have pressureized them.So,they perform Romeo and Juliet with a different point of view,saying that Romeo and Juliet would not have dies if their parents ahd approved of their love and listened to them,implying tht their parents should do the same.They perform a song "antenna" to convey their thoughts.
, Amitabh Bhattacharya
, Irfan Siddique and Prashant Pandey
. The song "Antenna" had Shahrukh Khan
as a special guest.
of Bollywood Hungama
rated the film with one and a half stars out of five saying, "Always Kabhi Kabhi disappoints!". Rajeev Masand
of CNN-IBN also gave the film 1.5 stars and stated, "Watching this film is like attending a concert put up by ten-year-olds. It's amateurish, and tedious to sit through, and the only thing you can appreciate in the end is the earnestness behind the effort." Nikhat Kazmi
of the Times of India awarded two and a half stars saying, "First, and most importantly, the film is a youth-oriented story but completely lacks the fun and games that are associated with this generation. Secondly, the parental problems are all so very predictable. It's all foregone and predictable apart from being inordinately long. School is agony; school is ecstasy. Always Kabhi Kabhi captures neither and treads the staid middle ground."
Hindi
Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...
romance film
Romance film
Romance films are love stories that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate involvement of the main characters and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage. Romance films make the love story or the search for love the main plot focus...
directed by Roshan Abbas
Roshan Abbas
-Biography:Roshan Abbas is an alumnus of La Martiniere College, Lucknow. He is a radio and television game show host and head of an events management company.He studied at Hindu College, University of Delhi, graduating with a BA degree in 1992....
, and produced by Shahrukh Khan
Shahrukh Khan
Shahrukh Khan , often credited as Shah Rukh Khan, is an Indian film actor, as well as a film producer and television host. Often referred to as "the King of Bollywood", Khan has acted in over 70 Hindi films....
under Red Chillies Entertainment
Red Chillies Entertainment
Red Chillies Entertainment is an Indian motion picture production and distribution company, based in Mumbai. The company was founded in 2002 by Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan and his wife Gauri Khan...
. It introduces Ali Fazal
Ali Fazal
Ali Fazal is an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood movies and can be caught on stage too.-Early life:Ali Fazal's acting career started from an early age. In high school he attend The Doon School, Dehradun, and performed on stage for the first time. He began his performances at the age of 16. In...
, along with Giselli Monteiro
Giselli Monteiro
Giselli Monteiro is a Brazilian model and Bollywood actress. She made her film-debut playing the role of "Harleen Kaur" in the 2009 Bollywood film Love Aaj Kal, directed by Imtiaz Ali.-Early life and career:...
while Zoa Morani, Satish Shah
Satish Shah
Satish Ravilal Shah is a Hindi and Marathi film and television actor best known for his comedy films. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the ever popular 80's sitcom Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi directed by Kundan Shah and Manjul Sinha. He is famous for playing the role of Municipal Commissioner...
, Lilette Dubey, Vijay Raaz
Vijay Raaz
Vijay Raaz is an Indian film actor. His breakthrough came when he played the role of Dubeyji in the movie Monsoon Wedding. Since then, Raaz has been cast in small, often comedic roles, in many Hindi movies, often depicting the character of a common man.-Early life and career:Raaz was born and...
, Mukesh Tiwari
Mukesh Tiwari
Mukesh Tiwari is an Indian actor who has appeared in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu language films as a character role. He belongs To Sagar. His first appearance was as a bandit "Jagira" in China Gate in 1998...
and Manoj Joshi
Manoj Joshi
Manoj Joshi is an Indian journalist and author. As of 2009, he is Comment Editor with the Mail Today newspaper in India.He finished his schooling from the prestigious St. Joseph's College in Nainital. After an undergraduate degree at St. Stephen's College, Delhi, Joshi studied history at Lucknow...
play supporting roles. The film released on 17 June 2011. It focuses on four teenagers embarking on a dramatic journey during their incident-packed final year at school.
Plot
Always Kabhi Kabhi focuses on 4 students and their struggle through their final year at St Mark's School. First teenager, Shortcut Sam (Ali FazalAli Fazal
Ali Fazal is an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood movies and can be caught on stage too.-Early life:Ali Fazal's acting career started from an early age. In high school he attend The Doon School, Dehradun, and performed on stage for the first time. He began his performances at the age of 16. In...
); the cool guy, who falls in love with Aishwarya(Giselli Monteiro
Giselli Monteiro
Giselli Monteiro is a Brazilian model and Bollywood actress. She made her film-debut playing the role of "Harleen Kaur" in the 2009 Bollywood film Love Aaj Kal, directed by Imtiaz Ali.-Early life and career:...
)who is about to become a bollywood actress. Aishwarya is a new student who befriends Sam on her first day, and the two fall in love first sight.A Shakespeare play approaches in which Aishwarya automatically gains the role of Juliet. Sam tries his level best to learn the lines of Romeo so as to impress Mrs. Das and gain the role of Romeo. He succeeds in the end. The next two friends, Tariq (Satyajeet Dubey) and Nandy(Nandini) (Zoa Morani), who love to fight and argue with each other,but do not understand that they are actually in love with each other.Nandini's parents don't spend any time with her and are always travelling. In the absence of her parents, she goes to illegal clubs and parties everyday and spends money lavishly. Tariq has the burden of getting into MIT.
They realize their love for each other during Nandy's struggle to get approval of her apology after she forwards Tariq's MIT denial letter ,oblivious to the fact that he had not read it himself. Sam gives a party in Hellfire but then there's a raid and he gets arrested while saving Aishwarya. The two corrupt policemen try to bag 50,000 rupees from Sam.Sam tries his best to avoid the policemen and tries to pay the policemen a little by little and aishwarya breaks up him because during the party,Nandy's toyboy offers him a drag and even though Aishwarya begged him to leave,he agreed to smoke weed because the toyboy makes fun of him and asked hiim to be a man.After she heard that Sam had sacrifised himself to save her,they make up.During Aishu's 18th birthday,Sam confesses his love for her only to be caught together by her mother and her agent renames her as Kashish for the fims and even persuades her to do a photoshoot in which she only wears a bikini.When Sam finds out that the prize money of the inter-school shakespeer play competition is Rs.50,000(the amount he owes the policemen),he begins to put more pressure on the group to come in time for the practices.Meanwhile,Aishwarya is being offered a movie conract that she doesnt want to do.during a meeting,she rips the contract and runs to meet Sam and the others and continue their practice for the competition.Meanwhile,enraged by Aishu's absence during practice,Sam confronts he,oblivious to what she had done for him while Aishu didnt know about the money he owes the policemen and does not understand the reason of his anger and runs into the streets only to be hit by a car aand goes into coma.Aishwarya's mother confronts Sam about the accident because she believed that he was the cause of the accident and does not permit him to see her.While dropping Aishwarya's clothes,Tariq and Nandy notice Aishwarya's phone has an electronical diary in it and reads it,it shows her point of view about everyone in the group and talks about how their parents have pressureized them.So,they perform Romeo and Juliet with a different point of view,saying that Romeo and Juliet would not have dies if their parents ahd approved of their love and listened to them,implying tht their parents should do the same.They perform a song "antenna" to convey their thoughts.
Cast
- Ali FazalAli FazalAli Fazal is an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood movies and can be caught on stage too.-Early life:Ali Fazal's acting career started from an early age. In high school he attend The Doon School, Dehradun, and performed on stage for the first time. He began his performances at the age of 16. In...
as Sameer Khanna (Shortcut Sam) - Giselli MonteiroGiselli MonteiroGiselli Monteiro is a Brazilian model and Bollywood actress. She made her film-debut playing the role of "Harleen Kaur" in the 2009 Bollywood film Love Aaj Kal, directed by Imtiaz Ali.-Early life and career:...
as Aishwarya Dhawan (Kashish) - Zoa Morani as Nandini Oberoi (Nandy Bull)
- Satyajeet DubeySatyajeet DubeySatyajeet Dubey born 21 July 1990, is an Indian actor working in the Hindi film industry. He started his career with Roshan Abbas' Always Kabhi Kabhi.-Early life:...
as Tariq Naqvi (Einstein) - Satish ShahSatish ShahSatish Ravilal Shah is a Hindi and Marathi film and television actor best known for his comedy films. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the ever popular 80's sitcom Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi directed by Kundan Shah and Manjul Sinha. He is famous for playing the role of Municipal Commissioner...
as K.G. - Lilette Dubey as Ms. Das
- Vijay RaazVijay RaazVijay Raaz is an Indian film actor. His breakthrough came when he played the role of Dubeyji in the movie Monsoon Wedding. Since then, Raaz has been cast in small, often comedic roles, in many Hindi movies, often depicting the character of a common man.-Early life and career:Raaz was born and...
as Professor Agarwal (Agro) - Mukesh TiwariMukesh TiwariMukesh Tiwari is an Indian actor who has appeared in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu language films as a character role. He belongs To Sagar. His first appearance was as a bandit "Jagira" in China Gate in 1998...
as an ACP - Manoj JoshiManoj JoshiManoj Joshi is an Indian journalist and author. As of 2009, he is Comment Editor with the Mail Today newspaper in India.He finished his schooling from the prestigious St. Joseph's College in Nainital. After an undergraduate degree at St. Stephen's College, Delhi, Joshi studied history at Lucknow...
as a Inspector - Navneet NishanNavneet NishanNavneet Nishan is an Indian Bollywood actress. She makes her debue in Bollywood with the movie waaris released in 1988. She is best known for her role as Tara in the soap opera, Tara, Kavyanjali, Kasautii Zindagii Kay...
as Mrs. Dhawan - Ashwin MushranAshwin MushranAshwin Mushran is a voice over artist and thespian who currently resides in Mumbai, India. He has appeared in numerous movies and plays. He is also featured in the Quick Gun Murugan movie, as Dr...
as Rahul Ghosh - Shahrukh KhanShahrukh KhanShahrukh Khan , often credited as Shah Rukh Khan, is an Indian film actor, as well as a film producer and television host. Often referred to as "the King of Bollywood", Khan has acted in over 70 Hindi films....
in an Special Appearance in song "Antenna"
Soundtrack
The music is composed by Pritam Chakraborty, Aashish Rego and Shree D. Lyrics are penned by the film director Roshan AbbasRoshan Abbas
-Biography:Roshan Abbas is an alumnus of La Martiniere College, Lucknow. He is a radio and television game show host and head of an events management company.He studied at Hindu College, University of Delhi, graduating with a BA degree in 1992....
, Amitabh Bhattacharya
Amitabh Bhattacharya
Amitabh Bhattacharya is an Indian lyricist and playback singer who works in Bollywood films. He shot to fame with the film Dev.D. The song "Emosanal Attyachar" from the movie was an instant hit. He has been continuously writing lyrics for a variety of Bollywood movies since then and has also sung a...
, Irfan Siddique and Prashant Pandey
Prashant Pandey
Prashant Pandey is a Mumbai based writer director. He started his career writing Ram Gopal Varma's critically acclaimed Sarkar Raj featuring Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai...
. The song "Antenna" had Shahrukh Khan
Shahrukh Khan
Shahrukh Khan , often credited as Shah Rukh Khan, is an Indian film actor, as well as a film producer and television host. Often referred to as "the King of Bollywood", Khan has acted in over 70 Hindi films....
as a special guest.
Track listing
Reception
Always Kabhi Kabhi opened to negative reviews from critics. Taran AdarshTaran Adarsh
Taran Adarsh is an Indian film critic, journalist, editor and film trade analyst. He is also a former producer and screenwriter. He is the son of film director and producer, B.K. Adarsh....
of Bollywood Hungama
Bollywood Hungama
Bollywood Hungama is a leading Bollywood entertainment website, owned by hungama.com....
rated the film with one and a half stars out of five saying, "Always Kabhi Kabhi disappoints!". Rajeev Masand
Rajeev Masand
Rajeev Masand is an Indian film critic and entertainment reporter for CNN-IBN. Masand started his career as an entertainment correspondent at the young age of 16...
of CNN-IBN also gave the film 1.5 stars and stated, "Watching this film is like attending a concert put up by ten-year-olds. It's amateurish, and tedious to sit through, and the only thing you can appreciate in the end is the earnestness behind the effort." Nikhat Kazmi
Nikhat Kazmi
Nikhat Kazmi is a senior correspondent and well-known film critic from India, who has been writing for The Times of India, since 1987.-Books:* If Shakespeare was a gun: a play. Writers Workshop, 1984....
of the Times of India awarded two and a half stars saying, "First, and most importantly, the film is a youth-oriented story but completely lacks the fun and games that are associated with this generation. Secondly, the parental problems are all so very predictable. It's all foregone and predictable apart from being inordinately long. School is agony; school is ecstasy. Always Kabhi Kabhi captures neither and treads the staid middle ground."
External links
- Official Website
- Always Kabhi Kabhi: Complete Cast & Crew @ Bollywood HungamaBollywood HungamaBollywood Hungama is a leading Bollywood entertainment website, owned by hungama.com....