i believe that karan johar and nikhil advani have try to do a cross between drama and parody . mind you and it would have be a hoot if they lampoon the serious bollywood tearjerker that be churn out dime a dozen . but they want the cake and eat it too . they want to parody the bollywood tearjerker and still cater to the section of audience that want to believe it to be real . i end up get a bit disoriented because at time they be show serious stuff but be laugh behind the scene and at other time and they take their own script too seriously . it all seem confusing and disastrous . but the end product be not too bad and that be due to the tremendous talent of the crew and cast . too many movie have be show where the old one in u adhere to indian tradition more ritualistically than those in india and the young one conveniently go between be the ultra modern ( whatever that mean . ) and ultra traditional a the script demand . they also have the poor girl marry off and go to india ( some traditional family from india will ask for her hand ) which doesn not make much sense because it seem to defeat the very purpose of uproot the entire family from india . kal ho naa ho take every one of these supposedly serious stuff ( include karan johar own ddlj ) and poke fun at them . the uppity naina ( priety ) and the confused rohit ( saif ) and the serious grandmother and i must make bold to say and the ultimate do gooder aman ( none other than shah rukh ) everyone of them be a caricature . and they have do these role before . it be hard to take them very seriously because you get the feeling that the director and the writer be chuckle behind the camera even a they be film these scene . and then there be the pretty funny and long comedy track of a mistaken homosexual relationship between saif and shah rukh . that o . kantabhen just put it way over the top . i laugh like crazy . be there an inside joke there karan and nikhil . i do not know if i should say the casting be perfect or the performance be perfect for the parody . every time i think nobody can ever act more theatrical than shah rukh and he out do himself . his performance be so unnatural and stilted that they be actually funny . with all the parody go on and i be wonder if karan and nikhil decide to milk shah rukh for all he be worth and make him ham it up even more . saif ali khan act brilliantly in his repeat performance of dil chahta hai and so do priety zinta of a number of her own role . then and the writer director duo decide to take thing seriously and the problem be i still can not stop laughing . that make it uneasy . they take every dramatic scene and blow it out of proportion a be the convention of bollywood standard and keep show it long after it have exhaust all it dramatic potential . this make the second half of the movie a bit uneasy to watch . particularly when shah rukh leave the hospital to go convince saif and priety and i be very uneasy . then they show saif ali khan in that i be 20 year older so i need gray hair wig that be just too much . overall and it be an interesting movie . somehow i feel that the filmmaker have more fun make it than we have watch it . make me wish i be involve in the process . positive . ps represent the only issue i have with the gay joke be this india be one of the few country where men be not a inhibit and uptight a those from europe or u . after this movie and i be afraid that indian guy be go to become a lot more self conscious about non sexual intimacy between each other . it be a pity .