Kuch
Kuch
Hota
broke
many
box
office
records
but
Karan
Johar
says
when
he
watches
the
movie
today
he
finds
it
to
be
based
on
an
"unusually
silly
theme".
''Actually,
Kuch
Kuch
Hota
Hai
is
a
very
unusually
silly
theme.
Don't
know
what
the
mother
wrote
in
those
eight
letters,
how
can
a
eight-year-old
read
that?
But
it
was
done
with
so
much
conviction,
a
mother
has
left
eight
letters,
but
kya
likha
hoga
pehli,
dusri
chhitti
may
ki
woh
bachcha
padh
sake?" Johar
told
PTI
at
Jagran
Film
Festival.
"He
(the
hero)
says,
'Zindagi
may
pyaar
ek
bar
hota
hai,
shaadi
ek
bar
hoti
hai',
but
he
himself
has
fallen
in
love
twice,
got
married
twice.
Everything
was
wrong,
but
it
was
written
with
so
much
conviction
that
it
made
sense,"
the
44-year-old
director
said.
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Johar
said
he
was
24
when
he
wrote
the
film
and
was
inspired
by
the
cinema
of
Raj
Kapoor,
Yash
Chopra
among
others.
"There
was
some
innocence
in
films
of
those
times,
when
we
used
to
say
'pyaar
dosti
hai,
love
is
friendship'.
I
have
made
a
film
on
the
same
theme
but
have
updated
its
tonality...
That
film
(Kuch
Kuch...)
had
an
organic
innocence,"
he
said.
"I
was
24
when
I
wrote
that
film...
But
I
can't
write
the
same
film
now.
When
I
see
Kuch
Kuch
Hota
Hai
today
or
Kabhi
Khushi
Kabhie
Gham
I
myself
wonder,
'Why
did
I
write
this,
how
did
I
write
this,
from
where
these
thoughts
came
to
my
mind?"
he
added.