… well, not quite.

But I am proud to say that I’ve watched my first full-length Bollywood movie. Entitled Kal Ho Naa Ho, or literally, Tomorrow May Never Come, it is a modern Hindi movie set in New York and stars Jaya Bachchan (incidentally, the wife of Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan) and Shah Rukh Khan along with Preity Zinta and Saif Ali Khan.

Naina Kapur (Zinta) is the eldest of three and currently doing an MBA course in New York City. Her coursemate Rohit (Saif Ali Khan) is a playboy wannabe who fails more than he succeeds, and the two befriend each other since she’s one of the few women he doesn’t plan to court. Naina lives with her mother (Bachchan) and her paternal grandmother who, in essence, is your stereotypical mother-in-law. Not everything is going smoothly for the family. Their restaurant business is constantly in the red and family squabbles between the two in-laws are constant. However, the Kapur family still maintains their status quo, even if the children are unhappy about it.

Enter Naina’s new neighbour, Aman Mathur (Shah Rukh Khan) - a charismatic busybody who gets into everyone’s face and then gets away with it. He brings a new life to the neighbourhood and slowly but surely begins to change the lives of everyone around him. He pushes people to become the best that they can be, and even gets Rohit spurred on enough to court Naina seriously. That is, until he realises that he’s falling hard for Naina as well. And to complicate matters, Naina has also fallen for him.

How they resolve this love triangle, as well as wrap up all the little subplots in the story - including the true identity of Naina’s sister, is done in dramatic, sometimes campy, fashion that leaves you with a completely satisfied feeling at the end of the 186 min movie. The humour (found mostly in the “gay” relationship between Aman and Rohit) is hardly forced and the light-hearted nature of the story make the real drama easy to enjoy. I need not mention the mandatory 10 minute dance sequences, of course.

An excellent tale about love, family, sacrifice and living life to the full. After all, Kal Ho Naa Ho.