A woman decides to marry her childhood friend, after getting her heart broken by her sweetheart.A woman decides to marry her childhood friend, after getting her heart broken by her sweetheart.A woman decides to marry her childhood friend, after getting her heart broken by her sweetheart.
- Awards
- 1 win & 5 nominations total
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
- Diya Malhotra
- (as Aishwarya Rai)
Rahul Singh
- Banna
- (as Raahul Singh)
Suniel Shetty
- Ishaan (Special Appearance)
- (as Sunil Shetty)
Manmeet Singh Sawhney
- Sardar passenger on train
- (as Manmeet Singh)
Amisha Upadhyaya
- Dancer
- (as Amisha Veda)
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Terribly unfunny unromantic "romatic comedy"
This is not the kind of role one was expecting from Aish after she had been so careful in selecting her movie roles in the recent past. The role seemed tailor made for your generic teenybopper bollywood actress.. not the actress from Devdas, HDDCS and Chokher Bali amongst others.
Her costumes in some of the dances were shockingly bad.. She would do well to wear Indian costumes more than western ones,, she looks breathakingly gorgeous in the former and like any other bollywood actress in the latter.
Vivek looked good but the role was so annoyingly juvenile and smug that it wld be hard to imagine a girl falling for him!
Add to that, there was absolutely no chemistry between the lead players
Amitabh was incredibly annoying,, as was the whole orphanage plot line..
The writers of this movie need a crash-course with Linda Seger asap.. what a poorly written script.. ( and vivek oberoi was partly responsible for the writing.. expected better from you vivek!)
The less said about the direction the better..
This will go down as one of the most forgettable movies of the year..
And the most disappointing
This is not the kind of role one was expecting from Aish after she had been so careful in selecting her movie roles in the recent past. The role seemed tailor made for your generic teenybopper bollywood actress.. not the actress from Devdas, HDDCS and Chokher Bali amongst others.
Her costumes in some of the dances were shockingly bad.. She would do well to wear Indian costumes more than western ones,, she looks breathakingly gorgeous in the former and like any other bollywood actress in the latter.
Vivek looked good but the role was so annoyingly juvenile and smug that it wld be hard to imagine a girl falling for him!
Add to that, there was absolutely no chemistry between the lead players
Amitabh was incredibly annoying,, as was the whole orphanage plot line..
The writers of this movie need a crash-course with Linda Seger asap.. what a poorly written script.. ( and vivek oberoi was partly responsible for the writing.. expected better from you vivek!)
The less said about the direction the better..
This will go down as one of the most forgettable movies of the year..
And the most disappointing
I thought that the film would just turn out to be a love story like every other Bollywood movie e.g. a boy & girl are in love and their parents won't let them get married because one of them is rich and the other is poor but it turned out to be so different and interesting about a boy who believes in arrange marriage and a girl who believes in love marriage. The movie was so peaceful & heartfelt, it was about 3 hours and didn't seem that long and I really liked Amitabh Bachchan in the second half he was a very nice funny guy. I don't like most of Aishwarya Rai's films but Kyon! ho gaya na is her best film. Songs are terrific each song is better than the other and the soundtrack of the movie is one of my favourite in my CD collection. Overall it's a very beautiful film for all ages and it took love stories to a new level.
"Kyun! Ho Gaya Na..." is a very low rated film on IMDb--with a current overall rating of 4.4. I would never rate the film this low, but can understand some folks' displeasure with the movie. It feels like a couple different films pieced together and the chemistry between the two leads is sometime lacking.
As for the first portion of the film, it's very much what you'd expect from an Aishwarya Rai Bachchan movie--full of romance and a formula I've come to expect from her films. This formula involves a desire to choose one's mate, meeting and hating a man, falling for the man, some even that tears them apart and, ultimately, the pair meeting again and marrying. I've seen it so many times that the first half felt like a case of deja-vu.
The second portion is pretty strange--with a completely different pace and setting. In this second half, Amitabh Bachchan (later for become Rai's father-in-law) is such a dominating presence that if feels more like his film. Only at the very end does the big climax come and the man (Vivek Oberoi) comes to his senses and runs to his lady love. The end. The final result is long and meandering feels much more like a hodge-podge than a coherent movie. Because of this, the film is not among my favorites in the career of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. It also has a few bad moments--such as the ridiculous fireworks scene.
By the way, if you know who the chef Todd English is, look at the character Ishaan. He sure looks like an Indian version of this celebrity chef!
As for the first portion of the film, it's very much what you'd expect from an Aishwarya Rai Bachchan movie--full of romance and a formula I've come to expect from her films. This formula involves a desire to choose one's mate, meeting and hating a man, falling for the man, some even that tears them apart and, ultimately, the pair meeting again and marrying. I've seen it so many times that the first half felt like a case of deja-vu.
The second portion is pretty strange--with a completely different pace and setting. In this second half, Amitabh Bachchan (later for become Rai's father-in-law) is such a dominating presence that if feels more like his film. Only at the very end does the big climax come and the man (Vivek Oberoi) comes to his senses and runs to his lady love. The end. The final result is long and meandering feels much more like a hodge-podge than a coherent movie. Because of this, the film is not among my favorites in the career of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. It also has a few bad moments--such as the ridiculous fireworks scene.
By the way, if you know who the chef Todd English is, look at the character Ishaan. He sure looks like an Indian version of this celebrity chef!
The much hyped Kyun Ho Gaya Na, surely disappoints. Then main flaw in this film is the dull storyline. There are a few touching moments in this film, but there aren't strong enough to stay with you even after the film has ended. Kyun Ho Gaya Na, lacks emotional content. And even, the comedy is not really funny. For any love story its important that the on screen chemistry between the hero and the heroine is just right. Sadly, there is absolutely no romantic chemistry between the real life lovers Ash and Vivek. Music is quite good, especially Pyaar mein, No no and Aao na which have been picturized well. The remaining songs could have easily been cut out. Cinematography top notch, the film looks gorgeous. Aishwarya Rai doesn't look the part of Dia and her performance is disappointing. Vivek O'beroi is excellent. He not only looks, but also plays the part of Arjun effortlessly. Vivek's performance comes out as natural and breezy. Om Puri is good as always, Rati Agnihotri seem to getting a lot of mother role lately and she plays them extremely well. Tinu Anand is fine in a small role, Amitabh Bachchan is annoying. Sorry to say that but, an actor of his caliber shouldn't play such mediocre characters. His performance looks fake and childish. Sunil Shetty is adequate. Unfortunately, Kyun Ho Gaya Na doesn't live up to expectations. Apart from Vivek's acting, a few good songs and the fantastic visuals nothing else is appealing about this film. 6/10.
The most annoying part of the movie .. poor story.. poor poor acting by Aish and Vivek... I never liked Viveks acting after Company ... His acting is completely mediocre... and lots and lots of stpidity .. even Big B's appearance could not lift this up... a complete waste of time !!! I don't know why Aishwarya is spoiling her career doing movies like these ... and that jackass Vivek will never learn how to act unless he gets rid of his stupid jackass attitude... This movie lacks everything from a good storyline to proper screenplay ... God knows when will Indian directors learn to put in everything in the right place I would not recommend this crap to anyone... except if you want to waste your time and blame the movie in the end
Did you know
- TriviaThe original title of the film was "Kyon! Ho Gaya Na Pyar..." But the director felt the word pyar (love) was very common and used too often in Hindi films. So he restricted his movies title, by removing the word pyar from the movie.
- GoofsWhen Diya and Arjun go to Vinay's party, Arjun is wearing his necklace. When he goes to Diya's house she has the necklace, although Arjun couldn't have given it to her because she left while he was asleep.
- Quotes
Raj Chauhan 'Uncle': C'Mon Charlie!
- SoundtracksPyaar Mein Sau Uljhanein
Music by Shankar Mahadevan-Ehsaan Noorani-Loy Mendonsa
Lyrics by Javed Akhtar
Performed by Mahalakshmi Iyer, Shankar Mahadevan, Sneha Pant, Vijay Prakash
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $336,909
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $171,966
- Aug 15, 2004
- Gross worldwide
- $696,718
- Runtime
- 2h 45m(165 min)
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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