She adorably fell in love with her best friend, and then started feeling territorial when he started spending more time with the new chick in college. Yet, we cannot deny the fact, that for a path-breaking character, Anjali succumbed to the very stereotypes that she broke. For this, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai – will be a landmark and blessing to Bollywood, always. Millions of girls across India felt seen for the first time. The tomboyish exuberance, the loud disposition, the nonchalance towards fashion and social mannerisms was more real than Bollywood likes to be– Anjali was more common in our schools and colleges than what our movies had made us believe. For an industry that had a history of being stuck at gulaabi gaal, reshmi zulfein and sharbati aankhein – Anjali was a miracle.
Equally denying and accepting both what was then, and what is now.Ĭome take this walk with us, whilst we deconstruct someone who had waltzed into our lives with a rainbow friendship band roughly 20 years back and never really left. Deep hours of introspection, several drives down nostalgia nukkad and giant helpings of dessert later – we may find ourselves in a position of balance between denial and acceptance. To find flaws in childhood heroes is quite humbling. But now that we are grown people children of the intensely ‘woke’ internet and time itself – Anjali seems far from perfect. From rocking jumpsuits to making Rahul eat dirt in their ritualistic basketball games –Anjali was the personification of #goals for us 90s kids.
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