To which the cop replied that there’s a massive queue for buying the tickets of Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham and hence, the police had to be called for crowd control!Īn excited Karan Johar got out his car and walked towards Liberty. Karan saw a cop outside his car and asked him the reason for the jam. Karan set out but got stuck in a traffic jam. This was one of the theatres in Mumbai screening Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham. Anil Thadani called Karan and told him to come to Liberty cinema immediately. On the day of Eid, all fears of Karan Johar were laid to trust. His father Yash Johar’s words rang in his ears, which said that if the film flops, their economic condition would get affected and they will have to move back to their old house. 50 crore “which is equivalent to today’s 500 crore”. As mentioned in one of the recent articles on Bollywood Hungama on Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham’s 20 th anniversary, as per Karan, the film’s cost was Rs. Karan Johar then confessed that he got scared and started weeping. The other reviews were peppered with phrases like ‘nowhere close to the magic of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’, ‘over the top’, ‘over-opulent’, ‘nowhere close to Lagaan which remains the film of the year’ etc. As it had opened to 50-60 per cent houses, it would make the investors happy.” Rajeev Masand called it ‘old wine, new bottle’. As per Karan Johar, one of the reviews read, “ Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham disappoints, and will entail heavy losses to all concerned. Kushi shows how the lives of two persons Siddhu (Pawan Kalyan) and Madhu (Bhumika) are entwined and how they fall in love and quarrel tooth and nail while. Moreover, some of the reviews of the film were negative. However, since it also had the widest ever release at 500 screens, probably the trade must have expected a little more. 2.38 crore, which was the biggest opening day ever in the history of Bollywood. To be specific, it released three days before Eid. To add to Karan’s ordeal, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham released in the Ramzan period.