Karan Johar’s most personal film Ae Dil hai Muskhil , a requiem to unrequited love, is eight years old. It is the film from his own repertoire that Karan Johar loves the most. Ae Dil Hai Mushkil is an exceedingly PURE take on love, of the unreciprocated kind.
Ranbir’s Ayaan loves Anushka’s Alize. They have a lot of fun together and are constantly exploring the wild juvenile side to their personality. But she finds him to be just friendship material. It is enormously gratifying for the high level of visual aesthetics that Karan invests into his frames. Full marks to cinematographer Anil Mehta for shooting Karan’s location and actors with an intensity that frequently betrays their shallow interests in life. Though there are four pivotal characters in Johar’s capricious quadrangle, the focus is entirely on Ranbir and Anuskha. She finds him fun but no spouse material.
Karan Johar based the Ranbir-Anushka relationship on an intense one-sided relationship he had,which he never got over.
Although Fawad Khan had only ten minutes of playing time he was the central attraction of Karan Johar’s directorial vision in Ae Dil Hai Mushkil. Fawad was all set to do a full-fledged role opposite Katrina Kaif in a entitled Sufi to be directed by debutant director Aditya Dhar and produced by Karan Johar.
But fate and politics willed otherwise.
Dhar had originally planned the film in 2011 with Chitrangda Singh and Prateik Babbar. But things didn’t work out back then. Katrina has been unable to feature in any Dharma Production except for her sizzling dance number Chikni chameli in Agneepath. She was supposed to star with John Abraham and Abhishek Bachchan in Dostana 2. It never got made.
