5/5 Mohabbatein
  by Galina
I have watched many Indian movies, but this is one of my favorite! It is totally worth it!

1/5 Dont watch it if you dont like Bollywood movies.
  by Pronob Ashwin (San Francisco, CA)
The same old stuff that has been going on for years. What was different about it? Maybe filming in Bath in the UK and the done up town scene like it was India. Thats about IT! My wife made me watch it and I regret I did. 3 and a half hours of over dramatic nonsense which makes the Titanic look bad (sarcastic). The performances were mixed. Amitabh as usual was fantastic. But not so for the rest. SRK acting as his silly self once again. Jugal was alright. Uday Chopra should stop overacting period. The ladies were ok. Overall bearable. Aish hardly had a role and the reason for her suicide and the suicide scene was just laughable at best. But the overdramatized Amrish Puri scene confronting his daughter (Preeti Jhangiani) about Jimmy Shergill was straight out of a Bollywood menu was so silly, I had to leave the room. Im sure u have seen that in numerous movies. Over dramatic sequences are part of 80% of Bollywood movies and Zee TV soap operas.

And not to mentioned the agonizing music and the long drawn mediocre and boring dance sequences that found the fast forward button everytime they started. Seriously, Jatin Lalit should stop making music. They seem to compose like they are in a time warp. All their songs sound pretty one dimensional, (Anu Malik anyone?) and are so long, that u just cant help wondering what they gain by elongating and dragging the movie by these long songs. I mean, do they think themselves to be such good music composers, that they can get away with that? And when we have other music directors churning better music that these jokers, they guys seem to live in the 70s. The background music with the was the worst and its almost like they use many of the same canned music in most of the movies they give background music for. Other than the cinematography which was ok, partly due to the filming in a castle in the UK, the direction leaves much to be desired. The story line infact started out promising, but it got progressively worse. I think the directors and script writers lost direction midway and the last hour became pretty predictable. A hashed up ending, that we see in a lot of movies. Im not going to give a description or what the movie was about as a lot of the reviewers have already done so.

Yes Im not a big Bollywood, fan partly due to the reason I just cant stand 80% of the movies. But thank God for newer directors (movie and music) out there, I still have hope for the industry.

5/5 Different to advertised story on DVD cover -and terrific!
  by Lyn (Melbourne Australia)
When I read the DVD cover about two stubborn men - with grim pictures of them on the front cover in my version, I thought this was to be a serious drama. My daughter read the back cover and decided not to watch it with me. It is for this reason I am writing this review. She missed something here and I throughly enjoyed a movie that was nothing like the cover suggested really.
It is thoughtful in many ways but it is very much about the triumph of love-not really a clash of wills.
There really is only one stubborn man who, as a principal, rules his university with fear and rules. There is another man who persists with trying to change him to open up the love within him.
There are also developed subplots about love stories with 3 of the young men from the university. These were all engaging. The length of Bollywood movies I've found I now like (as long as you arent sitting in a cinema all this time and can take an intermission from your DVD- or watch over several nights like a miniseries!) The longer movie gives more time for character development so I find I care a lot more about the fate of the protagonists.
I really enjoyed this movie and suspect it will reign as one of my favorites. The performances are excellent. I cant recall any particularly memorable songs or dances - though both were fine and plenty of them. But the story and the performances were what did it for me.
Bollywood of course is dripping with romance. However there are some deeper thoughts from this one that stayed with me to think about e.g. being able to maintain an open heart and enjoyment of your love whether of not it is returned by the other person (ie that love is about your feelings and the gift they give to YOU and this isnt conditional on whether they are returned or someone dies and exits your life); questions about love and fear and which is the greatest force- and the question it poses about what is life really about (love and openheartedness, or being shutdown and just achievement focused).
The calibre of the actors and the scripting means these questions feel of a different quality to romantic one-liners we are used to (or at least for me).
The legacy of this movie is about joy not about a clash of 2 stubborn people.

5/5 Wondelful Intro to Bollywood
  by Humberto Mejia (Perth, Australia)
My family's guru massager is from Guayana, from Indian descent and he lend me the movie to see.. Im ashamed to say its was my first Bollywood experience.. wow! its seeing whats happening at the other side of the world... and its a style that would find fertile ground in S. America.. the innocence and idealization of love.. the existance of censorship, makes us thinks when is it that the are going to kiss?.. the living standards of an elite of Indian society.. the presence of music and dances.. such beautiful women.. makes you want to go now!

Whateer the shortcoming the movie may have, I must attribute now to cultural shock, intersting to see that the karakoran war with pakistan has a place in the movie as well as to remember the past english oppresion.. makes me wonder, political propaganda??

As a parent, I wish this was the way our children could view teenage love, we would all benefit from this cultural assimilation... no, I am not suggesting acceptance to the puritanism spirit of the actual US gov

5/5 A sparkling Bollywood gem.
  by Mother of two (Portland, OR)
While this film revolves around an essentially frivolous romantic plotline, a somber undertone lends it just the right amount of gravity. The final confrontation between the male leads had me completely in tears. But Mohabbatein's biggest pleasures are in the musical numbers. I found it impossible to sit still through "Aankhen Khuli," the rousing and exhilaratingly choreographed finale to the first half of the film; another tune, "Humko Humise Churalo," is one of Bollywood's loveliest romantic ballads, and also eminently danceable. In each, the peerless Shahrukh Khan combines rich expressiveness as an actor with seemingly effortless virtuosity as a dancer. Mohabbatein is a thoroughly satisfying indulgence.