Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna

Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (Never Say Good Bye) is a 2006 Bollywood film directed by Karan Johar and produced under the Dharma Productions banner. Released on 11 August 2006 in India and North America, it stars Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Rani Mukherjee, Preity Zinta and Kirron Kher in pivotal roles. The film is commonly known as KANK.

Set and mostly filmed in New York City, Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna is a romantic drama film which explores themes of adultery and extramarital affairs. Although its earnings in India waned at the box office after the first week of release, the film was a success internationally and in the United States it became the highest grossing Indian film of all time, beating Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham's five year old record. In the United States it grossed over $1.3 million and $1.4 million in the United Kingdom on its opening weekend and was screened in over 1,200 cinemas worldwide. The film has grossed $3,275,444 in the US market and $10,259,399 from the Indian screens for a worldwide total of $25,229,168.

The film was nominated for numerous awards and actor Abhishek Bachchan won the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award and GIFA Best Supporting Actor Award amongst others with Rani Mukerji winning the IIFA Best Actress Award for their performances in the film.

The film was shown at the Tokyo International Film Festival. The script of the film received recognition by a number of critics, and was invited to be included in the library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Story:

Dev Saran (Shahrukh Khan), a successful football player, is married to Rhea (Preity Zinta), his college sweetheart and a hard-working woman who has a high-flying job with a fashion-magazine company. They have a son named Arjun. Reserved schoolteacher Maya (Rani Mukherjee) is about to marry her childhood friend Rishi Talwar (Abhishek Bachchan). Samarjit a.k.a "Sexy Sam" (Amitabh Bachchan) is Rishi's dad, a wealthy, bachelor, and Kamaljit (Kirron Kher) is the cheerful, peppy mother to Dev.

Dev happens to meet Maya right before her wedding, and despite being strangers, they connect instantly. The connection between the two remains a glowing spark that re-ignites when they meet four years later.

Only minutes after meeting Maya, Dev, who had signed a contract for $5 million to play professional football, is hit by a car- an accident that leaves him crippled and ends his football career. Rhea becomes wealthy and successful and begins earning money for the family, leaving Dev embittered at his own failure and angry that he cannot support his family. When Maya meets Dev the next time, he is bitter - his failed career and failing marriage are festering wounds to which his wife Rhea's professional success acts as rubbing salt. In the Talwar home, things are no better; Maya still does not feel any romantic love for Rishi and is guilty for her inability to have children.

Dev and Maya depart, in love after meeting for the first time, as Maya leaves for her wedding to Rishi

Dev and Maya realize that their situations are similar and decide to help each other repair their breaking marriages. Things do not work quite as expected however, and they become more and more drawn to each other. At the same time, Rishi and Rhea are working to keep their marriages afloat and are willing to see hope in even the smallest, most innocuous signs from their spouses. However, their efforts are insignificant in the face of Maya and Dev's intense unhappiness in their marriages and their growing feelings for each other.

Dev and Maya give in to a dreamy, coffee-drenched romance and realize they have fallen in love. However, due to a series of misunderstandings, Rhea and Rishi think that their spouses really love them and start to believe that they can make their marriages work. But after an incident in which the two of them fake feelings for their spouses in order to make each other jealous, Dev and Maya start to feel like they are cheating on each other with their own spouses. This realization brings them to a dramatic point of no return, and they end up sleeping together. Shortly afterward, they are caught in an embrace outside the train station by Sam and Kamaljit.

Sam, having lived the good life for a long time, ultimately has to bear the punishment of all his excesses. He has a fatal heart attack and as he lies on his death bed, he gives Maya some unconventional advice: he tells her to leave his son Rishi since neither of them are happy in their marriage.

Dev tells Rhea of his affair, with Maya, as their marriage comes to an end.

Things come to a head and Dev and Maya decide to leave each other and return to their spouses. But this reunion will not be without honesty, as they come clean and confess their extramarital affair. Both Rishi and Rhea decide that enough is enough and end the marriages. However, Maya and Dev each assume that the other has patched things up with their spouse; they speak on the phone and lie to each other, saying that all is well in their marriages.

Three years later, Rishi goes to meet Maya and invites her to his wedding. There, Rhea sees Maya for the first time in three years and realizes that Maya and Rishi were not together as she thought. The news that Dev is still alone, combined with some prodding from Rishi and Rhea, convinces Maya to run after Dev. Dev is about to catch a train when he sees Maya. He hides from her because he had told Maya earlier that he was happy with Rhea and he thinks that she is happily married to Rishi. However, Maya finds him in his seat and he uses the emergency brakes to get out to meet her. Realising how alone the two of them have been, Dev proposes to Maya, and she accepts wholeheartedly.