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Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, Karan Johar's latest film, has driven a rift right across his fandom. Or everyone who has watched it, for that matter. The film stars Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in the lead roles, and has had its share of controversies even before it hit the theatres. Ae Dil Hai Mushkil received extremely mixed reviews from critics, and the same emotion seems to be running through everyone, pretty much.
Our newsroom too, stands divided on Ae Dil Hai Mushkil. Some of us loved it, some of us liked it, and some of us downright hated it. So what worked for some and what did not? Here, have a look.
LOVED IT
Good looking people in exotic locations wearing couture and their hearts on their Louis Vuitton cuff links. KJo lets every middle class Indian live their dream in those three hours. Full marks to Ae Dil Hai Mushkil for being KJo's magnum opus. Also, a first where despite the lust, the friendship between two people remains sincere, untouched and deep, sealed with cancer, tragedy and death. At least, not marriage. Hence, despite playing on cliches, it breaks stereotypes. When you buy the tickets for a KJo movie, you're paying for mediocrity and luxury. And, if you expect a Masaan from KJo, who are you fooling anyway?
- Kudrat Sehgal, Digital Content Strategist, India Today Digital
LOVED IT
Ae Dil Hai Mushkil is everything that you would expect from a Karan Johar romantic drama minus the manipulative sentimentalism of his earlier work. Ranbir gives a stellar performance. All the actors are good. KJo holds back when it's needed and erupts at the right moments. But the film could have avoided using cancer as a plot device. It's a very childish thing to shoehorn in into a film that had otherwise been sincere.
- Devarsi Ghosh, Sub-editor, India Today Digital
HATED IT
Ae Dil Hai Mushkil is nothing but a failed attempt at telling a story about unrequited love. It is not just filled with badly-written dialogues and unwanted references from the Karan Johar brand of cinema, it also leaves the audience bored and craving for the intensity that was seen in the first teaser. Karan, having made movies like Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, My Name Is Khan and Bombay Talkies (his part), has proven that he can handle telling tales of relationships and love well, but with ADHM, he falls flat. I have no qualms about Karan discussing, portraying the lives of private-jet-owning kind of rich people, and I understand his characters, as seen in the movie, were meant to be selfish, arrogant and immature, but then why boast about it as an intense love story? There is only stubbornness, self-pity and inconsiderate behaviour in the name of love in Ae Dil Hai Mushkil and surviving the movie is really mushkil.
- Vivek Surendran, Senior Writer, India Today Digital
HATED IT
Ae Dil Hai Muskil did not work for me. So much prominence was given to showcasing relationships that the plot was lost somewhere. Even if I leave out the filthy rich protagonists who don't have to worry about making a living and can just take off to Paris and Vienna on a whim, the contrived climax was too much for me to digest. What was the need for such unrealistic closure?
- Samrudhi Ghosh, Writer, India Today Digital
HATED IT
I call it a futile attempt at millennial connect. I strongly suspect Karan Johar started with a checklist of what may seem cool to this generation, and wove a script around it. Here's a sneak peek at what that checklist might have looked like:
- It's OK for men to cry (so Ranbir cried enough to put Meena Kumari to shame)
- Women are not sad, emotional organisms, but creatures in complete control
- A relationship can start with being physical, but transform into being jigras (friends)
- It's damn cool to flaunt your partner as an arm-candy and even placing a bet on who is cooler (or hotter)
- If you do not flirt shamelessly with your ex-husband, you are so 'uncool'
- It's OK to use a glam doll to show your ex you are hotter. Not to worry if you hurt someone in the process
All this and more, but sorry, all that the checklist could create was 'raita unlimited'.
- Prerna Kaul Mishra, Editor (Content Services), India Today Group
ON THE LOVE-HATE FENCE
Ae Dil Hai Mushkil is definitely not a great film as it seemed like a Bollywood version of Love and Other Drugs. Given that it's a KJO film, it delivers all that is expected from it. After a misleading teaser, the film worked for me mostly for its dialogues. Be it when Ayan says, 'Aap ko tum banane ke liye aaya hoon,' or when Saba says, 'Main kisiki zaroorat nahi, khawahish banna chahti hoon' ... the writing was terrific.
- Srivatsan, Sub-editor, India Today Digital
... and the reviewers:
LOVED IT
Firstly a confession, I hate Karan Johar's brand of cinema. KJo's films are formulaic, overtly melodramatic and downright suffocating with an overload of fake, forced emotions. But Ae Dil Hai Mushkil is unlike any of his earlier films. Ae Dil Hai Mushkil is an honest film, in many ways KJo's biggest risk in terms of the story and screenplay. There is real fear at the heart of this romantic drama, the fear of losing the one you love. After all, what is love? Imagination.
- Sushant Mehta, Deputy Editor, India Today Television
HATED IT
Karan Johar is known for his candyfloss cinema. Everything looks good, feels good, and you automatically tend to make the pain of these gorgeous people your own. But the problem with Ae Dil Hai Mushkil resides in essentially that. Ae Dil Hai Mushkil looks and feels like so many other films we have seen in the past. From his own Kuch Kuch Hota Hai to Kal Ho Na Ho, from Imtiaz Ali's Rockstar to shades of Before Sunrise, Sweet November and The Fault In Our Stars, Johar, in Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, has tried to show relationships in a way he has done a zillion times before. His lead character doesn't understand the meaning of consent. He keeps chasing his love down, creates a scene at her wedding, and even forces a kiss on her when she is, umm, battling Stage IV cancer (because, the other three stages don't exist in Bollywood). The private-jet-owning, Urdu-spouting, wailing-and-moping characters did not work for me. Something new, please, KJo.
- Ananya Bhattacharya, Assistant Editor, India Today Digital