Ranked #90 of 100
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
कुछ कुछ होता है · 1998
Best friends, a haircut, a dead wife's eight letters, and a summer camp. The 90s in a single object.
- Director
- Karan Johar
- Year
- 1998
- Genre
- Romance · Drama
- Cast
- Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Rani Mukerji, Salman Khan
Why it's at number 90
Karan Johar's debut and the template every 2000s romance either copied or rebelled against.
Best friends, a haircut, a dead wife's eight letters, and a summer camp. The 90s in a single object.
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai sits in the 1990s alongside Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and Satya — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Karan Johar — also responsible for Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham..., Bombay Talkies.
- Released in 1998, in the 1990s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Romance, Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998) · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one
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