Why does Anushka friendzone Ranbir in ADHM? (Spoilers included) - Page 2

Originally posted by: kabeeraspeaking

They were messy people due to bad parenting/familial relationships which are hardly only a first world problem. Heartbreak is also hardly a first-world problem...everyone experiences it and feels it the same way...money doesn't make rejection or lack of fulfillment in life disappear. You can have a private jet, but if you don't have someone to whom you can reveal the real you and share your personality with, the feeling of loneliness in a first world country will be no easier to bear and learn to overcome than in a third world country. The movie is about universal emotions of heartbreak and companionship...that it is set in the lives of the rich and young is just a plot contrivance, not the core of the story.

Originally posted by: anonymous39

You're right that the emotions are universal but it's just that I couldn't believe this epic bond that they were supposed to have. Ok great, they like partying and fooling around and Bollywood... so? I think this is one of those things that will work for some and just won't for others. If you don't buy the love story, the movie won't work for you. That's why I hated the melodramatic last twist even more because it was like "SEE, she has cancer and he still likes her!!" to ham-handedly prove that their relationship is indeed significant.

I also didn't buy how their platonic love is all-powerful and more important than romantic love -which is the vibe Karan Johar seemed to be playing with at the end. Maybe it's because of his own background (being gay and without a spouse - a lifestyle where by default friends end up taking a more impactful role in his life) but in reality for most people, friendships are always superseded by romantic life. It was just too pat to have her dying and him being the one to sort of grow old with her because it prevented the actual problems that would have occurred if she lived. Imagine she wasn't sick - after Ali, she would have eventually found another husband, had kids, moved on, where her platonic friend would be less and less important especially if there was a direct clash between both.

Personally, I think unrequited love and friendship was done way, way better in Ek Main Aur Ek Tu.

Originally posted by: peeyara

since the time, i hv watched movie I am cursing writer 😆

He had such a beautiful n complex story with him but he made mess out of it

Ayan-Alizeh had a complex relationship and writer could have done better job-film could hv been high on emotions making people cry but it ended up making audience laugh

Its true that we cannot love back everyone who loves us...what bugs me is that Ali mai aisa kya tha jo alizeh couldn't move on...a little insight in Ali-Alizeh relationship or atleast some subtle hints thrown here n there would hv helped in understanding Alizeh's love for Ali and that in turn would hv helped in understanding why Alizeh cannot love ayan or why she can't atleast give him a chance