My first summer in New York, I couldn't get "Kal Ho Naa Ho" out of my head every time I walked past the Hudson. The title song of Nikhil Advani's 2003 Bollywood dramedy means "Tomorrow may not be" — it's an emotionally saturated letter to life, love, and the city of New York.
Kal Ho Naa Ho was never my first choice for a Bollywood movie to show the uninitiated, but its appeal has grown on me since being a middle schooler. It's the type of face-melting genre mashup that popular Indian cinema excels at, and it happens to be set in the city that I later came to call home. Read more...
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