Fourth, apparently this same Deepak Tijori was a recent contestant on India's Big Brother! Hey, pop culture!
Third, Naseeruddin Shah's awful-yet-oddly-attractive fictional son from Naajayaz, Deepak Tijori, also features - much to our humming and hawing and pretending we don't find him attractive. Second, Naseeruddin Shah appears as the local priest - much to our surprise and delight, he sports an Amish-style beard which more than amply compensates for his weak chin (sorry, Naseer, but it is). For a Hindi movie, this gives everything a quirky, off-beat vibe - suddenly all these Christian weddings, funerals, and cultural events seem exotic and edgy. First, the setting is Christian Goa and most of the characters, apart from Sunil, are actively Christian. There are several interesting things about Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa, apart from it being the story of a loser who loses the girl. But it's that willing submission to a heavenly slice of escapism which we all indulge in from time to time - especially if we're sitting down to watch a Bollywood movie. Mostly because we know Shah Rukh Khan's doomed Sunil is never going to get the girl eventually, all the lies will catch up with him (and they do, rapidly, once the song ends). This is when, as Suketu Mehta describes, it makes your insides churn in sympathetic lament.
This is when Bollywood knows what it's doing. After managing to get a date with his dreamgirl via colorful lies and deception, he meets her at the fair and indulges, for a mere hour or two, in his fantasy life. And the most heartachy moment in this film is when that loser believes for a moment that his dreams will come true. Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa ( Sometimes Yes, Sometimes No) is the story about a loser.
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