KABHI KHUSHI KABHIE GHAM

Who says that Golden-Era film-studio glamour and grandiosity is dead? It thrives, arising from the most productive and lively film-industry powerhouse on the planet. And no, it's not Hollywood. India's Bombay-centered motion-picture dream factory, affectionately known as “Bollywood,” here carries forward the larger-than-life tradition of commercial cinema in a manner seldom seen since the Technicolor-Cinemascope glory days of the the back lots of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. KABHI KHUSHI KHABIE GHAM (also known, in loose translation, as “Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Sad,” but fondly nicknamed K3G), is an all-stops-out gushing melodrama, mixing music, drama, comedy, romance and, yes, happiness and tears. It's the scrumptious saga of the super-rich Raichand family, whose father Yashovardhan has tried to pass on to princely adult sons Rahul and Rohan the values of family and tradition that made him a successful tycoon and 21st-century mogul. Rahul especially adores his mother and father, all the more so because they adopted and raised him with as much care as Rohan. But when Rahul falls in love with a girl of whom the magisterial Yash does not approve, he disobeys the father for the first time ever and leaves home. Rohan sees the anguish of their incomplete household, and he determines to find a way to reunite and complete the Raichand dynasty again. Hooray for Bollywood, and song, spectacle and emotions so broad that only the big screen could contain them. (In English and Hindi with English subtitles)