Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Sad is a Hindi film by Karan Johar from 2001. It is the Indian film with the third-highest box office takings abroad to date after My Name Is Khan and Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna - Till Happiness Do Us Part. It was in third place in the British cinema charts for several weeks and was also represented in the US cinema charts. Subtitled versions were produced in a total of nine languages. An Indian family saga about the decline and resurgence of a clan whose scattered members come together in London. The sprawling, opulent film is primarily committed to the naivety typical of the Bollywood cinema genre and entertains audiences with lots of singing, dancing and melodrama. Social conflicts are alluded to, but remain embedded in a fantastic-epic dream cinema that describes a lush ideal world and conveys foreign cultural perceptions.

Why it's worth seeing: As part of Indian Week, we are showing a Bollywood film with English subtitles. This film has everything you need for a typical Bollywood movie experience: rousing music, breathtaking dance interludes, gripping drama, and all of this - as a matter of course - in front of fantastically bizarre backdrops. But above all, this movie offers one thing: originality.