![]() ![]() ![]() Though the film’s tagline is: “It’s all about loving your parents,” K3G is equal parts romance, comedy, and family drama. Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Ghum (literally “Sometimes Joy, Sometimes Sorrow”), affectionately referred to as K3G, is a 2001 Bollywood film that celebrates its 20th anniversary December 14, 2021. So, I relive them instead through Bole Chudiyan and the Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Ghum soundtrack. I can’t experience them anymore given that I live in Canada, most of my extended family lives in Pakistan, and I can’t always plan my visits around weddings. Weddings were an opportunity for me to meet all my extended family in one place to frolic in the wedding hall with my cousins when I was younger, or catch up (read: gossip) with them as I got older and to revel in the joy that doing this brought me. Listening to it fills me with the anticipation I felt, waiting to hear the dhols that signaled the groom and his baraat’s arrival-and getting to throw rose petals over them if I was close enough to the bride then waiting for the bride’s elder cousins to bring her inside shortly after to sit beside him and then waiting to going up the stage to get my picture taken. As soon as I hear its opening lines, I can feel the itchy embroidered fabric-that most of my wedding clothes were made of-scratching my upper arms the stack of bangles sliding across my wrists the fancy pins tightly pulling my hair back.īole Chudiyan and the Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Ghum soundtrack reminds me of sitting in a circle singing and clapping along during dholkis, of watching dance performances during mehendis and of wanting to also smear henna or haldi over the bride and groom’s face but being too young to. The song’s popularity at weddings, in turn, has kept Kabhie Khushi Kabhie Gham-the Bollywood film whose soundtrack it belongs to-alive in the hearts of audiences across all generations for the 20 years that have passed since its release in 2001.įor me, Bole Chudiyan is inextricably linked to desi weddings and the joy and togetherness that I associated with them. Since the chorus of ‘Bole Chudiyan’ consists of a girl requesting her lover to take her heart-preferably as a groom-because even her bangles agree that she is his, it has become a mainstay at desi weddings. Many desi weddings consist of a groom bringing a baraat to his bride’s house and taking her away with him. ![]() ![]() “Let’s sing ‘Bole Chudiyan.’” This sentence, or an approximation of it, is commonly heard during almost every desi wedding. How Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham’s Soundtrack Has Kept the Movie Alive in the Hearts of Viewers for Two Decades ![]()
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