"SRK's character in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai lacked spine": When Karan Johar reviewed his directorial debut

Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Rani Mukerji's 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai' completed 22 years today. Filmmaker Karan Johar made his directorial debut with the 1998 film. It is considered as one of the iconic films in Bollywood. The story consists of two love triangles set years apart. Recently, Karan took to his social media handle to share a post as the film turned 22. Talking about Shah Rukh’s character, Karan had said in an interview in 2019, “Rahul doesn’t stand for very much. He’s a deeply confused character, doesn’t know what he wants and, really, didn’t do a lot much in the movie. Whatever happened to him was because there were people pushing him - his dead wife’s spirit, his eight-year-old daughter, and Anjali herself. What made him endearing was his charm, his large heart and Shah Rukh’s personal charisma.

He had added that there was ‘no logic or backstory to the characters’. “You don’t know what Shah Rukh, or anyone else, does for a living in the movie. And the eight letters - one for each birthday - made no sense, either,” the director had said in the interview to Mid-Day. At an event in 2018 to celebrate 20 years of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Shah Rukh had called the film’s original story ‘utterly nonsensical’. “Karan came and narrated an utterly nonsense crap story to me; which is certainly not the one that finally you people saw in the film. In his strange way Karan, the man with many words tried to impress me with his crap story. So yes, I really did not understand the story when I signed in. and I am glad that I did not get into the story and just went ahead with the conviction of Karan, otherwise the film would have not been the way it came out,” he had said comparing the first draft and the final film