Perfectly adorable

Absolutely brilliant

A Brilliant Conflict

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Skip the movie and buy the soundtrack instead. Great songs but painful sitting through the entire film.

Kabhi Kabhi – Sometimes life comes in full circle! Amit (Amitabh) loves Pooja (Rakhee) since college days.Pooja gets married to Vijay (Shashi) and conceives Vicky (Rishi).Vicky falls in love with Pinky (Neetu) – an adopted daughter of the Kapoors.Pinky is the illegitimate (pre-marital sex locha) child of Anjali (Waheeda).Anjali is wife of Amit! Anjaili gives birth (legitimate this time)to Sweetie after sleeping with Amit (her husband).Sweetie falls in love with Vicky! Vicky rejects Sweetie – earning the wrath of Amit – for Amit was a failure in love himself and it hurt him to see that Sweetie would have to live-on with unrequited love – more or less like father, like daughter – also like mother – since her mother (Waheeda) too had been in love with someone else and was afraid to confess to Amit about her pre-marital sex, pregnancy and even delivery! Such a huge secret was hidden by Waheeda!! So a sad Amit reluctantly married an even sadder Waheeda (she was a mother after all who had given birth to a 'nanhi-pari' but never could shower her love on her – sob-sniff) and they 'copulated' lovelessly – thereby giving birth to an entity like Sweetie – whose love for Vicky went unrequited! Like Parent, Like Children – amazing huh!! Mind it – a 1976 film – pre-marital sex and associated lochas are ramphant – why on earth do the oldies scream and shout at the youngsters saying that the current generation has gone to the dogs! Even they were not adhering to chastity or virginity – how come they expect their sons and daughters...kith and kin to behave all nice and decent and chaste!? Pooja's heart, mind and soul remains with Amit – body with Vijay. Only Vijay is the one who seems to not have had any locha affair – but what does he get as a reward? Pooja's body – well most Indian husbands will quite agree that it is enough – heart, mind and soul are difficult things to handle – it is better that the female handles it all alone – which maximum wives do by dwelling in their reverie – with some distant (existing or non-existing) dream lover!Life & Compromise - So Pathetic Indeed!

Let's say it this way; in The Guinness Book of World Records, you'll find (Kabhie Kabhie) at the section of the most idiot, most boring, and most surreal movies ever made as number one in all of these categories. While viewing it I went to a spasm where I was laughing hysterically, astonished in a bad sense, and about ripping my clothes off. To all who think that (Geraftaar), (Mrityudaata) or (Sooryavansham) are The Big B's worst movies; think again, because these are classics compared to the one in hands ! I want whoever wrote it to be hanged. What's this movie ?! Honestly ! At first, it's a love story in which a boy and a girl sing in green woods and snowy woods. Then the boy's heart got broken; you'll never know why his girl left him?, or married that other guy in specific ?!, and how come she's always happy with him ?! Then, it's another love story in which a boy and a girl sing in green woods and snowy woods, a lame part when the boy's father (likely a runaway from the nuthouse) wants his son to get marry, useless scenes for the boy and the girl with no singing in green woods or snowy woods, and a scene for the girl combing her hair just to assure that she's happy (Huh ?!). Then, a known matter in every Hindi movie; the girl is a foundling. So the trip to find the real parents. After a while, it becomes about 2 girls fighting over one boy, ..Oh sorry, after that I immersed in this movie's loyal absurdness, and surrendered forcibly to lethargy, instead of bursting out of rage, bore, or not understanding !There is no clear plot. It goes stupidly from theme to another without any focus or ONE POSSIBLE MEANING, being a hellish maze of circle that passes to another circle that passes to another and another pointlessly. The events happen scarcely (so that's why it's called Sometimes !). Plus a never-ending dialog; I thought that it was a contest to create the heaviest movie ever; where every scene repeats the other irritatingly, and this one won matchlessly, or the writer was forced to fill it up with all the unnecessary dialog he could make up, otherwise someone would kill his wife, children, cat ! Whatever, this dialog is sold as hopelessly romantic jewels, while – in fact – being great book for all the cheesy, completely juvenile, romantic conversations !Well, the writer was stoned. To prove it : (Bachchan) marries a girl, yet he doesn't notice that she wasn't a virgin unless 20 years later ! The explosions, in order to pave the way for building around a mountain, are child's toys that don't do a thing ! (Shashi Kapoor) suddenly appears, at the end, on a motorcycle to chase his son into that chain of explorations (How he knew about it ?, from where did he bring that motorcycle ?, and while he's rich why he doesn't ride something bigger ?!), even my faraway neighbors heard my laughs at that moment ! The girl that was about killing herself because the boy she loved loves another girl, retreats weirdly when she knows that they're engaged (?!!). (Bachchan) remembers, out of the blue, that he loves his wife because their daughter was about to die (??!), and so on and on of incredibly lazy writing that could fit a Hindi melodrama's outrageous parody !With no obvious point, I imagined many theories for its end; 1) (Amitabh) will marry his old love (Rakhee), then the latter's husband will marry the first's wife. 2) (Neetu Singh) will be discovered as (Amitabh)'s daughter, so when she'll marry (Rakhee)'s boy; it will be like the reunion that those old lovers couldn't have. 3) (Neetu) will be discovered as (Shashi)'s daughter from old mistake with (Amitabh)'s wife, so (Singh) and (Rishi Kapoor) are sister and brother, hence (Rishi) will easily marry (Amitabh)'s daughter (another way to achieve the reunion of the original 2 lovers). 4) (Rishi) will be discovered as (Amitabh)'s son, so (Shashi) will be shocked and let his wife to her first love. 5) (Rishi) dies, nobody marries, and (Shashi) returns to the nuthouse !The taste of (Shashi)'s villa hurt my eyes more than the 70s flamboyant ties. The direction aimed at breaking the tons of dialogs, yet with no avail. (Bachchan) appears with no moustache, then abruptly with one. Basically he wanted to be the opposite of what he was back then; so from comic, violent, rebellious and poor young man, to sedate, poetic, quiet and rich old man. But sure he selected the WRONG script. I kept wishing for Prem Chopra, Amrish Puri, or Amjad Khan to show up, fighting the leads, killing them, or anything that may spread an atom of heat, attraction, or movement in it !It's 2, so long, movies in one, with no connection or unified purpose between both. Maybe its writer's wildest dream was to smash the legend of "the first love"; whereas (Bachchan) chooses lastly his wife, not his first love, (Rakhee) does the same with her husband, and (Bachchan)'s daughter with (Rishi) as her first love who she loses to another girl. But, if that was the hoped-for meaning, then it couldn't be done more adolescently and horridly ! Irrefutably (Neetu) was the only good thing. The presence of her voluptuous body is a treat, especially while being in always tight costumes, pants, and – WAW – swimsuit; very rare and bold in 1976. Not that big stars were involved. Not that it alleges being highly romantic. But for being a hit once, and being called a classic that make me finally collapse. Rather it's a 3 hours hit to the head, and a classic at being a mammoth crap. It makes the news more fun and less weary to watch !

OK - this film is worth seeing because indeed, the poetry and music is superb. But puhleez! the acting is below par or perhaps it's due to the weak script. The story has potential, but its execution is lacking.I did appreciate, and still do, a good love story, and this it has, but it's an immature story never properly realised on the screen; perhaps the re-make will finally fulfull this potential.I know a number of Indians that adore this film - perhaps, my not liking it is my exposure to other foreign films and India's limitations on imported cinema in that time period and thus, their exposure to 'higher-quality' cinema. I do know that even a lot of the sappy love stories done now in Bollywood I really like... but this... sorry!The individual song, "Kabhi Kabhie" is wonderful esp. the remix done by Bally Sagoo - search the net for it - his mix is excellent.