Death becomes Shah Rukh Khan. Ashen-lipped and glassy-eyed, he slinks into sleep as the woman he loves, her husband and others shed copious tears.
Just when the husband (Saif Ali Khan) thinks Shah Rukh is dead, he opens his eyes and says, "Not yet idiot." It is a superbly cool moment that encapsulates the tone of Nikhil Advani's Kal Ho Naa Ho.
Advani, who learned family film formula with masters Aditya Chopra and Karan Johar, emerges as a distinctive voice with his first film.Written by Johar, the film revisits old ground- NRIs, wedding song, snazzy club number and Shah Rukh- but also evolves the formula.
It has technical pizzazz (split screens, in-camera dialogue) and an urbane wit despite snags like sub-plots with pat endings or a lame pre-interval portion. The dialogue by Niranjan Iyengar is perfectly pitched and the performances uniformly good.
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