MUMBAI – In an interview with HuffPost, acclaimed Indin filmmaker Karan Johar stated the reason why he killed off Anushka Sharma’s character in Ae Dil Hai Mushkil.
“He loved her so crazily. She could’ve loved him back, why couldn’t she? So she got cancer and she died,” said Karan.
He also spoke about his views on guilt tripping someone who did not love you back. “Oh, it’s a great feeling! I want to tell you that there is no right or wrong in the emotional half of a human being. This is how we behave and every emotion that can be faulted—jealousy or envy—the fact is that it exists,” stated Johar.
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“Well, she got punished, I wrote it,” Johar said. “See, a film-maker is like God. You write, you create and you destroy.”
Johar also felt Ranbir as Ayaan was justified in sending Alizeh on a guilt-trip the entire film. “To me, he was just a puppy in love and it’s not like Alizeh didn’t love him. She just didn’t love him in the way that he wanted her to love him,” he explained. ” About the physical aggression (a scene in the film), I apologize. That is not something I had thought of earlier and I should have.”
This is the only thing Johar is sorry for. “I am not apologetic about Ayaan’s relentlessness and his love, because he loved her even after she was gone,” he said. “He never stopped loving her. That’s the way I feel about the big loves of my life. I will never stop loving them and I may not go so relentless in my pursuit of love but I believe Ayaan was a lover.”
People on social media are calling out the absurdity in KJ’s statement. Here are some of the posts:
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Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, that also starred Fawad Khan went on to become a box office hit of 2016 and even picked up four Filmfare awards.
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