Ultimately, it turns into a love of sorts, a love that after several teary, dramatic turns, comes to fruition. Stuck in marriages they don’t want, drowning in their own bitterness, they turn to each other, ostensibly in a collaborative effort to save their respective marriages. And there were the two least likeable characters – the affair-havers themselves – played by Shah Rukh Khan and Rani Mukerji. There was Preity Zinta, a driven, successful career woman determined to make her marriage work. There was Amitabh Bachchan as an elderly widower with a lusty zest for life.
Let me be fair and say that in 2006, the film was a fairly bold step. And yet, when I’m watching it in 2021, far older and more cantankerous than I was when it first came out, the notion of the film being a missed opportunity continues to hold. Karan Johar’s Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, which came out 15 years ago, was supposed to be a fresh, contemporary take on marriage, infertility, love beyond age, and two wounded people finding comfort in each other that they could not find with their respective spouses. From The Bridges of Madison County to Arth and Silsila, there’s something about the yearning and secret intimacies of a romance outside marital strictures that I find hugely appealing. I have an unholy love for extramarital love stories.
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