Ae Dil Hai Mushkil

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil is an upcoming Indian romance film directed and written by Karan Johar. The film will star Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Ranbir Kapoor and Anushka Sharma in the lead roles. It also stars Fawad Khan. It is slated to release on 28 October 2016.

On 6 February at the India Conference at Harvard, Johar revealed that in the film Ranbir plays the character of a Hindu boy, Aayan, and Anushka plays a Muslim girl, Alizeh.

Cast

Production

Development and casting

"...it is not a conventional love story or love triangle. It's a film that dwells deeply on relationships, heartbreaks and how love completes you, defines you and yet leaves you wanting for more. I have never had, in my entire career, a film that has come to me so fast, so organically and so from within."

The film was first announced in November 2014. Writer-director Karan Johar said that for the past year and a half, he had been developing a story that he needed to work on for another 3 to 5 months. However, while he was in New York, the idea for 'Ae Dil Hai Mushkil' came to him and he wrote the screenplay in 30 days, something he had never done before. When he came back to India, he spoke to the three lead actors and they all signed on immediately.

Karan Johar

Karan Johar (born 25 May 1972), often informally referred to as KJo, is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter, costume designer, actor and television personality who is primarily known for his work in Hindi films. He is the son of Hiroo Johar and the acclaimed producer Yash Johar.

Johar made his directorial debut with the blockbuster romance Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), which earned him the Filmfare Awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay. His next two films were the ensemble dramas Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001) and Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006), which were both very successful in the overseas market. His counter-terrorism drama My Name Is Khan (2010) earned him his second Filmfare Award for Best Director. These, along with the several successful films he has produced under the Dharma Productions banner, have established him as one of the leading director-producers in Hindi cinema.

Early life

Karan Johar was born in Mumbai, India to Indian Bollywood film producer Yash Johar, founder of Dharma Productions and Hiroo Johar. He studied at the Greenlawns High School and attended H.R. College of Commerce and Economics, both in Mumbai. He received a master's degree in French.

Sunny M.R.

Sunny M.R. is an Indian composer, Music Producer, Sound Engineer and Playback Singer. He is best known for the Telugu film Swamy Ra Ra (2013),Uyyala Jampala (2013). Musicperk.com rated the album 8/10, quoting "A fresh waft of cool music! Experimental Magic with simplicity". He won Global Indian Music Award, Mirchi Music Award for Bollywood movie Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (2013) as "Best Music Arranger cum Programmer" and " Song Programmer cum Arranger of the Year " in 2014.

Early life

Sunny M.R. studied at St. Anthony's High School, St. Anne's High School,Patna and then joined as sound engineer to assist his accomplished brother,Shadab Rayeen.After 6 months Sunny became an Independent Sound Engineer at age of 15.He mastered mixing,arranging,composing various tunes primarily worked with Keerthana Digital studios,Hyderabad,Telangana for 6 years.

Career

In Keerthana Digital studios,Sunny collaborated 350 Albums mastering ragas from Carnatic Music.In Initial stage he used to hate doing Carnatic tunes but later realised that jazz is harmonised version of Carnatic music.Started loving and doing Albums with Carnatic ragas. Sunny moved to Mumbai to meet Sandeep Chowta and joined as Sound Engineer.Late Anil Kumar,Music Director and Krishna Chaitanya,Telugu songs lyricist inspired Sunny to join as Music Director.Sudheer Varma,The Director of Telugu Film Swamy Ra Ra selected Sunny.He is part of Innovative Open Music Community called Blogswara. The Blogswara team appreciated for Sunny's entry as Music Director.

Sony Music Entertainment

Sony Music Entertainment Inc. (sometimes known as Sony Music or by the initials, SME) is an American music corporation managed and operated by Sony Corporation of America (SCA), a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Sony Corporation. In 1929, the enterprise was first founded as American Record Corporation (ARC) and, in 1938, was renamed Columbia Recording Corporation, following ARC's acquisition by CBS. In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records. In 1987, Sony Corporation of Japan bought the company, and in 1991, renamed it SME. It is the world's second largest recorded music company, after Universal Music Group.

In 2004, SME and Bertelsmann Music Group merged as Sony BMG Music Entertainment. When Sony acquired BMG's half of the conglomerate in 2008, Sony BMG reverted to the SME name. The buyout led to the dissolution of BMG, which then relaunched as BMG Rights Management. Out of the "Big Three" record companies, with Universal Music Group being the largest and Warner Music Group, SME is middle-sized.

Arijit Singh

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Arijit Singh is an Indian playback singer and a music programmer. Born in Jiaganj, Murshidabad, West Bengal, his career began upon participating in the reality show Fame Gurukul (2005), in which he lost at the finals. After winning another reality show called 10 Ke 10 Le Gaye Dil, Singh built a recording setup of his own, beginning his journey with music programming. Subsequently, he went to become as an assistant music programmer to Pritam Chakraborty, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Vishal-Shekhar and Mithoon.

Singh rose to widespread prominence and became a household name with the release of "Tum Hi Ho" from Aashiqui 2 (2013). He was given the Best Male Playback Singer award for the song, in 59th Filmfare Awards. In 2014, he collaborated with Jeet Gannguli—for whom he performed the rest of his tracks in Aashiqui 2 —for CityLights, where he rendered the romantic version of the song "Muskurane", which fetched him most nominations in the year. Gannguli composed Suno Na Sangemarmar and Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy's Sufi song, Mast Magan garnered him another two nominations in 60th Filmfare Awards.