We Are Family (Hindi)
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September 03, 2010Maya (Kajol) is the perfect mother. Her life revolves around her three children, Aleya (Aanchal Munjal), Ankush (Nominath Ginsburg), and Anjali (Diya Sonecha), who think nothing less than the world of her. Despite being divorced from her husband, Aman (Arjun Rampal) Maya has ensured that everything runs smoothly in her house, under her watch, and that they continue to remain a happy family unit. However, when Aman introduces his girlfriend, Shreya (Kareena Kapoor) a career oriented woman, who has a lot to learn about children, to the family, the situation immediately takes an unexpected turn.
When an incident changes their lives drastically, bringing the two women under the same roof, they find themselves putting to test an unusual situation; can two mothers make a home? Forced to make some unorthodox choices for her family, Maya must confront her uneasy equation with Shreya and find a way to bring everyone together, despite their differences, to make them a family once again. Can they make a happy home and proudly say… We Are Family!
“This Karan dude is a smarty pants. He targets the tears of Indians and NRIs and makes BMWs and Mercedes’ out of them.†– Animesh, the boyfriend, after watching ‘We are Family’
'We Are Family' of a little sister called Cliche, big brother Predictability and brat teenage sister, Implausibility. Our Big daddy is Mr. Patronizing Dialogue and soccer mom is the Great Indian Kangan. Oh yeah and our stepmom is Stepmom.
Apologies for not publishing a review of We Are Family. I watched the film earlier today and was more interested in the bevy of nymphets all around me than in the film itself. Interestingly, they seemed way too interested in what was going on. And surprisingly, I didn’t walk out through a minefield of used tissues. Rather, it was a fish market – a cloud of cackling laughter over muted disapprovals and the slightly more vocal venom. Point being, I didn’t actually pay any attention to the film. So can’t really review it here. However, I have something that’ll more than make up for the lack of a review. A mole in the family, a well-wisher of this site, has gifted us with a transcript of an audio diary that tells the story of that one night when it all started in contemplative fashion. The audio diary of none other than THE Karan Johar. Read on….