![]() Ayan is pretending to take a business administration course when he meets Alizeh (Anushka Sharma) at a nightclub. Love is depicted as an end in itself, as high-minded as efforts for world peace, and just as difficult.Īyan (Ranbir Kapoor) is a billionaire’s scion with an airplane at his disposal and dreams of being a singer. Cocooned from identity politics and financial worries in Brexit-immune London, these post-feudal and transnational lovelies have the luxury of pursing lives dedicated to romance, poetry, Urdu and Hindi film nostalgia. The 158-minute movie is set is a familiar world of non-resident Indians who have slipped off the chains of caste, family, community and religion, but have retained their class affiliations. The characters are played by screen gods trying to pass themselves off as mortals, the costumes are gorgeous in a chic fashion catalogue way, the hair and make-up are perfect, and the homes look like seven-star suites. The characters declare their desi loyalty despite being citizens of a foreign country (the United Kingdom in this case), and disdain electronic dance music and other such popular forms of Western culture for bhangra beats and Bollywood dancing. Ardour leads to an effusion of poetic feeling, and it is declared that heartbreak is mandatory in order to be a truly effective singer. The first love is the only real one and can never be replicated. Sex remains a minefield, and monogamy the ideal. Friendship, one of the cornerstones of Johar’s cinema, is still incompatible with romance. The movie has the flavour of Yash Chopra, but also of Imtiaz Ali. The characters in Ae Dil Hai Mushkil are less loud and cloying, the acting is refreshingly naturalistic, the songs are woven more dextrously into the narrative, and the overall tone is more sombre and, in fleeting moments, even despairing. Some things have changed since Johar made his debut in 1998 with Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. Karan Johar’s latest film is a best hits compilation of characters and moments from his older productions as well as a tribute to the Bollywood idiom of romance.
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