
It's a shame, as the first portion of the film is very good and engaged me. I mention all this because "Kuch Kuch Hota Hai" had many of these story elements.which will no doubt be accepted by lovers of the genre but which will not sit so well with others. The readers realize there are clichés (I do NOT mean this in a negative way) and accept them as part of the genre.but to those who don't read romance, they might be rather critical of these plot devices. In many ways this reminds me of romance novels. I generally like them but also realize that there is a certain sameness about them.a sameness accepted and embraced in India but a sameness not as likely to be adored abroad. While not all Indian movies are love stories filled with singing, these are the most popular films in the country and we do get a lot of them exported here in the States. There is just one problem.and I won't say more as I don't want to spoil the film. Now, through the letters, Tina is trying to enlist the help of her daughter to reunite Rahul with this Anjali from long ago, as Tina thinks they'd make a great couple and Anjali would make a great mother to young Anjali.

But Rahul was pretty dense and didn't realize Anjali loved him so much and instead he fell for Tina and married. In this letter, Anjali learns that before Tina, Rahul had a relationship with another woman.also called Anjali. Anjali loves reading the letters and now that she is 8, she's about to receive her final letter from her deceased mother.

But before dying, she writes a series of letters to be given to her daughter one at a time over the next 8 years. Rahul's beloved wife, Tina, has given birth and dies soon thereafter*.
