Kal Ho Naa Ho

An old-school women's picture, Nikhil Advani's tale of doomed romance and noble self sacrifice is set in modern-day New York City but shot in the over-the-top style of Bollywood musicals. Pretty , sensible and oh-so-serious Naina (Preity Zinta), whose father committed suicide some years earlier, lives at home with her squabbling mother and grandmother. She's studying for a business degree at NYU and wears the kind of glasses that once signified that knockout beauties like Marilyn Monroe were to be taken for mousey librarians. Her extended Punjabi family wants nothing more than for her to get married, but her father's death has left her afraid of love. Though she occa...