Kajol says she wanted to play Rani Mukerji’s role in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, fought with Karan Johar for it: ‘He refused categorically’

In Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Kajol played Anjali, who is best friends with Rahul. Anjali silently harbours feelings for her best friend, while Rahul falls for Tina, a new girl in college, eventually marrying her. Heartbroken, Anjali leaves college only to reunite with Rahul years later and marries him after Tina’s death.

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Earlier, at a IIMUN event, Karan criticised Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and said that it “propagated wrong gender politics.” He said, “I feel like I have grown as an individual, The first film that I made, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, I firmly believe that the gender politics of that film was all wrong. It is propagating incorrect gender politics, there is a lot of surfacesness in that film. Of course, there is nostalgia so you love it, but you don’t scratch the surface of the film and see that what Rahul is doing is actually not what I would want all the Rahuls in the audience, or all the boys in general, to do.”