Updated On: 24 May, 2024 06:01 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Karan Johar revealed on Sit With Hitlist that his film `Ae Dil Hai Mushkil` was inspired by his one-sided love with a person who was not from the industry.

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Bollywood filmmaker and Dharma honcho Karan Johar celebrates his birthday on May 25. He confessed to making the 2016 ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’ based on his own experience of one-sided love. In an interview with mid-day.com on Sit With Hitlist with Mayank Shekhar, Karan was asked if the person he was in love with got back to him after its release, the filmmaker answered with a “yes” and revealed it was “Very awkward because his character dies in the end.”
Karan said, “I don`t want to speak about it because I got bashed for saying something. But the character went through a fictional arc as well. it was cathartic for me to tell that story I felt like that, and that helped me get over that love situation. And you know, for anyone who`s been through uh, one-sided love, ek tarfa pyaar, and that heartbreak, it`s like I saw the worst version of myself not as a human being.”