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Aey Dil Hai Mushkil


I know that I don’t have to, but being Sonya, I have to. Else I would not be able to contain this in my being. Today I used all of my will power to watch a very much hyped movie called “Aye Dil Hai Mushkil”. Aur sirf yeh mera dil hi janta hai key mujhe iss muskhil ko dekhne kitni shadeed mushkil hoee hai.

I am very happy that Fawad Khan was not the entire part of this ‘Ashfaq Ahmed Sahab cum Bano Qudsia cum Haseena Moeen’ type philosophical love story.


Karan Johar has used everything one could possibly imagine, from Shah Rukh Khan, Ali Bhatt, PIA logo in the Ashwarya-Ranbir scene, to the glorious voice of Madam Noor Jehan, the enchanting poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, classic Hindi motive songs, cancer idea of Rajesh Khanna’s ‘Anand’ and of course an extremely beautified Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, to illuminate his movie but alas… it was a puff of smoke.


Love is the central theme of this film, someone is calling it heroine, someone naming it a cancer. All central characters were trying to be really intellectual about it.

This movie shows how a woman is free today to express her physical desires with anyone at any time. And then she realizes that she has fallen in love with a man, and with that realization she decides to kick the same man she loves out of her home and out of her life.

A woman loves someone else but always she hangs out with another, she shares good and bad moments with this other man and then she reverts to the first man in her life. It is confusing right, dear this is what happens in this movie throughout.

The first thing that put me off big time, was the way today’s modern Muslim women has been projected. According to this movie they are over-liberated and can enter into any sort relationship at the drop of a hat. Both Aishwarya and Anushka portrayed educated and contemporary Muslim females of today. In all honesty and I might sound very conservative, I did not like they were projected to the world.

Love has many shades, and if any one of you has watched Asfhaq Ahmed’s ‘Eik Muhabbat Sou Afsane’ you will understand the philosophy of love.

I think Bollywood should stick to what they do best, light romantic films devoid of any and all intellectual story lines.

Aye dil waqae hee thee yeh film bahout mushkil...


Sonya Syed. (Day 565)


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Beatiful analysis
March 30, 2017 at 5:12 PM
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