There was a time when even the 'flop' films were fun to watch in Bollywood Last updated: May 09, 2026 | 10:29 Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor in Jab We Met. I was 13, and I spent the entirety of 2004 watching Hum Tum. It was the time of VCD’s, and so we played it everyday after school, till the CD gave out and got scratched. The CD still exists on a dusty shelf in our house, surviving like an old, worn out relic for millennials and probably an object of historical fascination for upcoming generations, ‘How did this even work?’ Ironically, Hum Tum, reminds me of that old CD. It’s almost symbolic of the romantic comedies that Bollywood had churned out in the early 2000s. A normalcy back then, a luxury now.   Silly, goofy and fresh, the story was not a profound sermon on life and love: Two people become friends and fall in love slowly over the course of nine years.…