If you hadnвЂ™t guessed it by the tagline вЂ“ вЂњItвЂ™s all about loving your parentsвЂќ вЂ“ this is a film about blindly fighting for your parentsвЂ™ acceptance, even if they have tried to deny you your happiness. Never let it be said that Bollywood films arenвЂ™t good value for money. All is forgiven, blessings are exchanged and as the credits roll, Rohan and Poo get married too. In a final scene before they are set to fly back to England, the thunder cracks once more in the room where Rahul was first banished, but this time it is his father at last begging for forgiveness, having realised his mistakes with the help of his wife finally breaking her silence. Rahul and Yash avoid each other in the halls of the palatial Raichand home while Nadini fends off the tears and does much hand-wringing with her daughter-in-law. News of the death of the boysвЂ™ grandmother soon prompts a joint trip back, though, where the denouement ensues. Rahul still vows not to return to India since his father has upheld his promise to never welcome him. Tears fall again, this time in the food court.ДЇilm three: this is where things really come to a head. There ensues a convoluted half-hour of Rohan gaining RahulвЂ™s trust before he reveals that they are brothers by secretly inviting his parents from India for a meeting in the Bluewater shopping centre. It turns out that Pooja is AnjaliвЂ™s younger sister and has been living with her and Rahul all this time. Cut to Rohan in London, where he soon falls for вЂњhottest girl in townвЂќ, Pooja (her friends call her Poo), played by the nonchalant Kareena Kapoor. Upon returning home from school, the nowripped Rohan overhears the truth of his brotherвЂ™s banishment and seeks to find him in the UK, where he has been living for the past decade. Once big brother was banished, Rohan was sent to boarding school to transform into the washboard-ab-toting Bollywood hero Hrithik Roshan. Rohan grew into a rotund preteen who very much looked up to his older brother, who he never knew was adopted. Rahul chooses Anjali, weepy goodbyes ensue and dadвЂ™s toupee remains.ДЇilm two: some years after Rahul was adopted, Yash and his wife, Nandini (played by the peerless, glassy-eyed Jaya Bachchan, real-life wife of Amitabh) had a biological son, Rohan.

Dad gives Rahul a choice: dump Anjali and remain part of the family, or leave forever.

Rahul falls in love with Anjali and tearfully confronts his powerful dad, who disapproves while foreboding thunder erupts in the background. So far so good, but a brush with the working class, bolshy Anjali (played by Kajol, MukerjiвЂ™s real-life cousin) in DelhiвЂ™s Chandni Chowk market soon spells trouble. Yash has Rahul swanning around town in the family helicopter and he has his bride picked out вЂ“ the high-society, docile beauty Naina (played by my childhood crush Rani Mukerji). Film one: the older, adopted son of the fabulously wealthy Raichand family, Rahul (played by the Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan at the height of his hair-swishing power) is the apple of his father YashвЂ™s eye (played by the elder statesman Amitabh Bachchan, sporting a leathery toupee throughout). Like any Bollywood film worth its salt, Kabhi Khushi is really three films in one. One which I couldnвЂ™t understand a word of, since I didnвЂ™t speak Hindi. For an Indian born and brought up in London and surrounded largely by people who looked nothing like me, this was a window into a new, fantastical life.

Watching it is one of my earliest and most significant memories of Indian cinema, shovelling down a bucketful of popcorn while shrill yet ineffably catchy musical numbers played out, outfits and locations were changed at will, and a deluge of onscreen tears fell.

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