Thursday, 6 April 2017

Ae dil hai mushkil review


Rating: 2.5/5

Cast: Ranbir Kapoor as Ayan, Anushka Sharma as Alizeh, Fawad Khan as Ali, Aishwarya Rai as Saba, Lisa Haydon as Lisa

Director: Karan Johar

The film is a mash up of KJo’s earlier films like Kuch kuch hota hai, Kabhi alvida na kehna and Kal ho na ho. This movie glorifies friend-zoning and one-sided love.  (People already do it in real life. Why waste time and money to watch a film on it?) Ranbir’s situation with the leading lady (Anushka Sharma) and his friendly banter with her reminds one of ‘Rockstar’ and ‘Tamasha’. The fancy décor, scenery, peppy songs and glamour (KJo’s signature style) fail to please the audience as much as a good story would have. 

Certain moments between Ranbir and Anushka were amazing.  One cannot disregard the good job done on the portrayal of the madness of a love triangle, how stupid people behave when they are in love or what they do instead when there is no real love.  And of course, there is a sprinkling of love lessons throughout the film.

In spite of having seen him in similar roles before, Ranbir is the preferred actor over others in this movie.  He has become extremely well at expressing the pain of heartbreak (Kudos to the song- ‘Channa Mereya’). Aishwarya could have offered a lot more than she did had her role been worked upon a bit more (maybe she could have studied the personality of Shayars and brought it out in her body language?) One wishes her ‘Shayra’ held as much meaning as the shayaris written for it. Sure, Shayras can be smart, successful and independent but how did it contribute any magic towards the film? ‘Saba’ could have been given any career and she would have still not been able to fulfill the purpose of her part. Anushka is great as someone who was never completely over someone she deeply loved (Fawad Khan) but still chooses to part ways with him because of how things turn out to be every time he enters her life...The rest of her role provides very little or nothing to mull over.  Not much can be commented on Fawad’s role due to the unfortunate timing of the film’s release and the effect it had on the length of his role. Lisa Haydon has done a fantastic job at providing some comic relief.


To sum it up, parts of the film are beautiful but as a whole the movie is unable to deliver the magic promised by its trailers. People who like movies based on heartbreaks should go for this one.


P.S. : I know it is too late to have written this review but I have still put this up so that I can know the level of my skill as a movie review writer. 

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