Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
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50 free Kuch Kuch Hota Hai trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai turned a first-time director, Karan Johar, into one of the biggest names in Hindi cinema. Released in 1998 with Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Rani Mukerji, it joined a college love triangle to a second-chance romance years later, and it is still remembered for its music and its campus fashion. This quiz covers the whole film: the story of Rahul, Anjali and Tina, the supporting cast and cameos, how and where it was made, the soundtrack, and the awards and box-office records that followed. Every question comes with its answer and a short explanation. It is written for fans who have watched the film more than once, but anyone new to 1990s Bollywood will find plenty of easier questions to start with.
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Q 01Which famous lyricist quit Kuch Kuch Hota Hai because he found the film's title vulgar, a choice he later regretted?
Javed Akhtar
Javed Akhtar had already written one song when he learned what the film would be called and walked out. He has since said he was sorry to have missed a picture that became so loved.
Q 02In which Southeast Asian country did Kuch Kuch Hota Hai reportedly outperform Titanic at the box office?
Indonesia
Indonesia embraced the film so warmly that its soundtrack sold a further 300,000 copies there. In January 2025 an Indonesian delegation sang the title song at a state banquet in New Delhi.
Q 03While filming a song for Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Kajol fell off what and was briefly knocked unconscious?
A bicycle
A bicycle got away from Kajol during the song Yeh Ladka Hai Deewana, and the fall also hurt her knee. She calls it her most memorable moment of the shoot because she cannot remember it.
Q 04The title song of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai was filmed among castles and mountain valleys in which country?
Scotland
Scotland supplied Eilean Donan Castle, Glen Coe and Loch Lomond as the backdrops for Rahul, Anjali and Tina.
Q 05How are Kajol and Rani Mukerji, the two leading ladies of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, related in real life?
Cousins
Cousins Kajol and Rani Mukerji play rivals for Rahul's heart, and Rani joined the cast only after several established actresses had refused the part of Tina.
Q 06Karan Johar asked his art director to model the college in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai on which fictional American school?
Riverdale High
Riverdale High is the school in Archie Comics, and Johar has said Shah Rukh Khan plays Archie, Rani Mukerji plays Veronica and Kajol plays Betty.
Q 07The role of Tina in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai was written for which actress, who turned it down?
Twinkle Khanna
Twinkle Khanna was Karan Johar's first choice, and after she said no the part was refused by a string of other stars before it reached Rani Mukerji. It became Mukerji's breakthrough.
Q 08Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, in which a child plays matchmaker for her single dad, has been compared to which Tom Hanks film?
Sleepless in Seattle
Sleepless in Seattle also has a child finding a partner for a bereaved dad, though Karan Johar named the 1995 British comedy Jack and Sarah as his own influence for the second half.
Q 09Kuch Kuch Hota Hai swept all four acting awards at Filmfare; which 2019 Alia Bhatt film later did the same?
Gully Boy
Gully Boy matched the sweep two decades on, taking 13 trophies at the 65th Filmfare Awards. In 1999 the four acting prizes went to Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Salman Khan and Rani Mukerji.
Q 10The reunion of Rahul and Anjali in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai uses footage Karan Johar secretly recorded during what?
A rehearsal
A rehearsal produced the take: Johar let Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol improvise their reactions, quietly kept the camera running, and liked the result enough to put it in the final cut.
Q 11In Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Rahul's daughter finds the grown-up Anjali teaching at a summer camp in which hill station?
Shimla
Shimla hosts the dance and music workshop, where Anjali grows close to the girl without realising whose daughter she is.
Q 12In Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, what causes the death of Rahul's wife Tina eight years before the main story?
Childbirth
Childbirth claims Tina, and Rahul names the baby Anjali after the college best friend he has lost touch with.
Q 13What does the dying Tina leave behind for her daughter in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, setting the plot in motion?
Letters
Letters from Tina tell the girl how her parents met and reveal that Rahul's best friend loved him too. In them Tina asks her daughter to bring the pair back together.
Q 21Which production company, founded by Karan Johar's father Yash Johar, made Kuch Kuch Hota Hai?
Dharma Productions
Dharma Productions had been running since 1976, and the film's success opened a whole new chapter for the company. Karan Johar took it over in 2004 after his father's death.
Q 22Which choreographer, who later directed Main Hoon Na, staged the dance numbers in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai?
Farah Khan
Farah Khan won best choreography at the Bollywood Movie Awards for one of the film's songs, and she also turns up on screen in a brief cameo.
Q 23Which fashion designer dressed the students of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai in imported labels such as DKNY and Polo?
Manish Malhotra
Q 14Which Kuch Kuch Hota Hai character, played by Salman Khan, calls off his own wedding to Anjali at the altar?
Aman Mehra
Aman Mehra sees that his bride still loves Rahul, so he steps aside and tells her to marry Rahul instead. The extended cameo won Salman Khan a Filmfare trophy.
Q 15In Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Anupam Kher plays Tina's father, who holds which post at the college?
Principal
Principal of the college is the post, and Kher's comic turn earned him a Filmfare nomination alongside two of his co-stars from the film.
Q 16Which child actress played Rahul's daughter in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and later returned in Student of the Year?
Sana Saeed
Sana Saeed made her first screen appearance as the eight-year-old matchmaker, then came back as an adult in Karan Johar's 2012 campus film.
Q 17At the summer camp in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, the little Sikh boy played by Parzaan Dastur is known for what?
Staying silent
Staying silent made the boy a favourite, since he has just one line of dialogue in the whole film. Parzaan Dastur was already familiar to Indian viewers from a Dhara advertisement.
Q 18Which actress, later a judge on The Kapil Sharma Show, played Ms. Braganza in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai?
Archana Puran Singh
Archana Puran Singh won the Screen Award for Best Comedian for the part, and she reprised the character in the 2025 Netflix film Nadaaniyan.
Q 19Which comic actor plays Colonel Almeida, the manager of the summer camp, in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai?
Johnny Lever
Johnny Lever, a veteran of more than three hundred Hindi films, received a Filmfare comedy nomination for the role.
Q 20Which actress, a popular 1980s screen partner of Govinda, appears as herself hosting a TV show in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai?
Neelam
Neelam plays herself as a VJ in one of her last screen roles before she left films and turned to jewellery design.
Manish Malhotra and Karan Johar sourced the outfits in London to give the campus an aspirational look, and the designer even appears briefly as a student on the college steps.
Q 24The college scenes of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai were filmed at a university on which Indian Ocean island nation?
Mauritius
Mauritius provided its national university campus at Moka, so the college where Rahul, Anjali and Tina meet was filmed an ocean away from India.
Q 25The summer camp scenes of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai were filmed at Wenlock Downs near which Tamil Nadu hill station?
Ooty
Ooty and its rolling grasslands in the south stood in for the northern hill station where the story places the camp.
Q 26Karan Johar decided to direct Kuch Kuch Hota Hai after assisting and acting in which 1995 Shah Rukh Khan hit?
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge had paired Shah Rukh Khan with Kajol, and Johar wrote his own debut as a way to bring the two together again.
Q 27Which Mohabbatein director recommended Rani Mukerji for the role of Tina in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai?
Aditya Chopra
Aditya Chopra had seen her in Raja Ki Aayegi Baaraat and pressed her case after a list of better-known actresses had refused the part.
Q 28Which actor, Rani Mukerji's co-star in Hum Tum, turned down the role of Anjali's fiancé in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai?
Saif Ali Khan
Saif Ali Khan passed on the part, which went to Salman Khan after a meeting with Karan Johar at the home of Salman's sister.
Q 29Which veteran actress, star of the 1994 film Mammo, played Rahul's mother in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai?
Farida Jalal
Farida Jalal appeared in many of the decade's biggest Hindi hits, and the film's other mother, Anjali's, is played by Reema Lagoo.
Q 30Which glossy American teen TV drama of the 1990s inspired the look of the college in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai?
Beverly Hills, 90210
Beverly Hills, 90210 and its wealthy, fashionable students were a model for Karan Johar, who wanted to bring a contemporary visual style to mainstream Hindi cinema.