Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006) on Netflix
Maya Talwar meets Dev Saran on the day she marries Rishi. As Dev leaves, a car strikes him, ending his soccer career. Years later the two, both married to others, grow close.
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Dev Saran plays soccer in New York City and lives with his wife Rhea, their son Arjun and his mother Kamaljit. Maya is a schoolteacher and an orphan, about to marry Rishi Talwar, whose father Samarjit, a wealthy widower, raised him. Maya and Dev meet by chance on her wedding day and feel an immediate bond; moments after he leaves her, a car hits Dev and his playing days are over. Four years on, Dev coaches junior soccer, is bitter about the career he lost, is insecure about Rhea's growing success at a fashion magazine, and cannot connect with Arjun, who prefers the violin. Maya finds little closeness with Rishi and grieves her infertility. When Samarjit and Kamaljit strike up a friendship, Dev and Maya meet again and lean on each other over what their marriages lack.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006)
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- Karan Johar had to delegate the directing of a key hotel scene to Shah Rukh Khan because of a scheduling conflict, and Khan, initially reluctant, finished it with Amitabh Bachchan guiding him remotely over the phone.
- Shooting the song "Tumhi Dekho Naa" in New York, Rani Mukerji wore a chiffon saree in temperatures of –14 °C (7 °F); she could not walk unaided and had to be carried to her vehicle by her cousin, assistant director Ayan Mukerji.
- For "Tumhi Dekho Naa", the planned artificial rain froze into ice mid-air in the freezing temperatures, creating safety risks, so the red colour-themed sequence was shot on a sunny day using two hundred red umbrellas.
- Kajol was Karan Johar's first choice for Maya, a part meant to mark her return to cinema after a five-year break, but she declined over creative disagreements and a prior commitment to Yash Raj Films' Fanaa (2006).
- Karan Johar's original plan had Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Rani Mukerji and Ajay Devgn as Dev, Maya, Rhea and Rishi, but Ajay Devgn and Saif Ali Khan both declined because of their prior commitments to Vishal Bhardwaj's Omkara (2006).
- Abhishek Bachchan won Best Supporting Actor at the 52nd Filmfare Awards for Rishi, his third consecutive win in the category, making him the only actor after Dilip Kumar to complete that hat-trick.
- The MPAA first gave the film an R rating for strong language and sexual content, but after the distributors appealed, it was reclassified PG-13 in the United States.
- Karan Johar's story was partly triggered by real life: he had witnessed a married couple part amicably at a London café, and he also cited his own emotional setbacks and Richard Linklater's Before Sunset (2004) as shaping it.
