Leisurely set-up benefits pic's first, and biggest, production number, which comes almost an hour into the movie, melding the four main characters' stories in a similar way to "Say 'shava, shava'" in "
K3G." Six-minute extravaganza, a riot of color and movement by costumer Manish Malhotra and choreographer Farah Khan, isn't quite on the level of the classic "Shava" but is a head-spinner all the same.
For three and a half hours, K3G focuses on two central themes - family values and love.
Sentimental and cheesy, K3G is entertaining in a way Hollywood could never be.
In
K3G, Khan played the male lead and added dollops of zing with his charming role.
It's in this half of the movie that first-time helmer Nikhil Adavani, who worked as an assistant on "KKHH" and "K3G," shows his smarts, keeping in the air simultaneously a rain-and-shine blend between comedy and drama, often in the same scenes, along with the three main characters' emotional stories.
Per genre rules, events climax in a spectacular shaadi (wedding) number ("Maahi ve"), which comes close to equaling the classic "Say shava shava" in "K3G." But the script then pushes on for another, "Dance at the Gym"-like capper and a relatively unsentimental postscript.
No stranger to patriarch roles ("
K3G"), Bachchan redeems his rep after a sorry turn in crime exploitationer "Boom," and his chemistry with Rawal in the second half is moving.
Following Karan Johar's huge 1999 success "Kuch kuch hota hai," expectation for his "
K3G" has been at fever pitch, especially in light of Bollywood's rocky local fortunes this year.