Now this doesn’t mean I feel for every boy I befriended, or that I loved being in the friend zone because that was the place to be according to Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. It was possibly the reason why throughout my teenage years, I often found being friends with guys easier than I did with girls.Īlso Read: Ginny Weds Sunny Has Problematic Clichés But Makes An Important Point About Parent-Child Relationships I believed whole-heartedly that my semi-tomboyish self would one day find a guy who’d first fall into friendship with me, and eventually, and hopefully without needing the help of an eight-year-old kid from his first marriage, fall in love with me.
Tabhi lage ladki varna lage bekaar!”īut only because Anjali was sold on it, so was I. “Lambe baal our makeup and dressed in a salwaar. In fact, to give a few lines from another SRK-Kajol movie, K3G, a makeover…. We’ve had entire movies like Khoobsurat, Main Hoon Na, even YJHD to some extent, proving to us that a girls had to change for boys to notice them. Let’s be honest, men do not look twice at tomboys like Anjali. You get it, right? Our generation had to live through ‘Sexy Sexy Sexy Mujhe Log Bolein’ being censored to ‘Baby Baby Baby Mujhe Log Bolein’ because “HaIt didn’t matter that Papa didn’t do what he preached, not really. We thought Anjali 2.0 was super bold for being able to call her Dadi ‘sexy’. The graffiti on bathroom walls was starting to make sense. I was already at an age where we had begun teasing girls and boys with each other’s names in school. And two, she seemed really cool to my single-digit-year-old self. I only cared for what Sana Saeed’s Anjali 2.0 wanted, because, one, we were age-buds. Naturally, I wasn’t much invested in the love lives of Rahul, Tina, Anjali and Aman when I finally watched the movie. I was two years younger than the younger Anjali was in the film, when Kuch Kuch Hota Hai released.