8 Years Of Ae Dil Hai Mushkil: Karan Johar's Heartfelt Tribute To One-Sided Love And Deep Friendship

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.

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