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Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (2016) Poster

Full Cast & Crew

Directed by 

Karan Johar

Writing Credits  

Karan Johar ... (story and screenplay)
 
Karan Johar ... (dialogue) &
Niranjan Iyengar ... (dialogue)

Cast (in credits order)  

Ranbir Kapoor ... Ayan Sanger
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan ... Saba
Anushka Sharma ... Alizeh
Fawad Khan ... Ali
Lisa Haydon ... Lisa D'Souza
Imran Abbas ... Dr. Faisal
Pooja Mehta Pooja Mehta ... Bollywood Dance Class Teacher
Cru Fox Cru Fox ... Ayan's Main Bandmembers - Lead Guitarist
Jamil Ahmed Jamil Ahmed ... Drummer
Phyl Cashman Phyl Cashman ... Bass Guitarist
Timea Gazdag Timea Gazdag ... Keyboards
Yohan Contractor Yohan Contractor ... Video Recorder
Byron Byron ... Ayan's Additional Bandmembers - Violinists
Yolita Yolita ... Ayan's Additional Bandmembers - Violinists
Niccolo Niccolo ... Ayan's Additional Bandmembers - Violinists
Samara Samara ... Ayan's Additional Bandmembers - Violinists
Carl Carl ... Ayan's Additional Bandmembers - Violinists
Silas Silas ... Alice in Wonderland
Leandro Leandro ... Alice in Wonderland
Alex Gardner Alex Gardner ... Paramedics
Becky Nixon Becky Nixon ... Paramedics
Kaushal Kapoor Kaushal Kapoor ... Alizeh's Father
Sukanya Dhanda Sukanya Dhanda ... Alizeh's Mother
Shweta Singh Shweta Singh ... Alizeh's Sisters
Hezal Tyagi Hezal Tyagi ... Alizeh's Sisters
Preena Jhamb Preena Jhamb ... Alizeh's Sisters
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Farah Ahmed Farah Ahmed ... Bollywood Dance Class Dancer
Lee Kemp Lee Kemp ... Student
Kaushal Odedra Kaushal Odedra ... Trumpet Player
Hiten Patel ... Flight Passenger
Nitin Harshad Patel Nitin Harshad Patel ... Hotel Guest (as Nik Patel)
Chanelle Sadie Paul Chanelle Sadie Paul ... Club Back Up Singer
Hawke Wood Hawke Wood ... Elf (as Emily Wood)
Sofia Abbasi ... Posh Restaurant Guest / Nightclubber (uncredited)
Manoj Anand ... Bollywood Medley Wedding Dancer / Concert Rocker (uncredited)
Anushka Arora Anushka Arora ... Bollywood Medley Wedding Dancer (uncredited)
Claire Ashton ... French Language Student (uncredited)
Raj Awasti ... Bollywood Dancer (uncredited)
Richard Banks ... Bollywood Dance Class Dancer (uncredited)
Susan Baskerville Susan Baskerville ... Bollywood Dance Class Dancer (uncredited)
Alia Bhatt ... DJ at Silent Disco (uncredited)
Kishore Bhatt ... Chemo Ward Patient (uncredited)
David Broughton ... Airport Passenger (uncredited)
Yulian Caesar ... Nightclubber / Stage Crew (uncredited)
Lula Carr Lula Carr ... Bollywood Dance Class Dancer (uncredited)
Randeep Chana Randeep Chana ... Bollywood Dance Class Dancer (uncredited)
Tina Chandorkar ... Concert Rocker (uncredited)
Amrita Deb Amrita Deb ... Bollywood Dance Class Dancer (uncredited)
Alya Elouissi ... Party attendant (uncredited)
Lobna Futers ... Wedding Dancer (uncredited)
Taj Gill ... Bollywood Dance Class Dancer (uncredited)
Naman Gupta Naman Gupta ... Wedding Dancer (uncredited)
Georg Gusti Wiblinger Georg Gusti Wiblinger ... Pedestrian in Vienna (uncredited)
Kornelia Horvath Kornelia Horvath ... Hotel Restaurant Guest (uncredited)
Sharan Hunjan Sharan Hunjan ... Bollywood Dance Class Dancer (uncredited)
Ty Hurley Ty Hurley ... Nightclubber (uncredited)
Dolly Jagdeo Dolly Jagdeo ... Bollywood Medley Wedding Dancer (uncredited)
Jessica Jane Jessica Jane ... Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Aneta Kamysz Aneta Kamysz ... Bollywood Medley Wedding Dancer (uncredited)
Arun Kapur ... Bollywood Medley Wedding Dancer (uncredited)
Parv Kaur Parv Kaur ... Bollywood Medley Wedding Dhol Player (uncredited)
Mudassar Saeed Khan ... Concert Goer / Resturant Diner (uncredited)
Shah Rukh Khan ... Tahir Taliyar Khan (uncredited)
Joelle Koissi ... Hotel Restaurant Guest (uncredited)
Mervi Koski Mervi Koski ... Nightclubber (uncredited)
Alpesh Malaviya Alpesh Malaviya ... Concert Rocker (uncredited)
Preeti Malhotra Preeti Malhotra ... Bollywood Medley Wedding Dancer (uncredited)
Elizabeth Mannering ... Concert Rocker (uncredited)
Bharat Mistri ... Bollywood Medley Wedding Dancer (uncredited)
Harsha Morarji ... Concert Rocker (uncredited)
Halima Nagori Halima Nagori ... Bollywood Dance Class Dancer (uncredited)
Johannes Nendwich Johannes Nendwich ... Radfahrer / Passant / Parkbanksitzer (uncredited)
Celina Nessa Celina Nessa ... Bollywood Dance Class Dancer (uncredited)
Nafee Sah Nafee Sah ... Concert Rocker (uncredited)
Anil Sanchania Anil Sanchania ... Student (uncredited)
Hitali Shah Hitali Shah ... Concert Rocker (uncredited)
Avinashi Sharma ... Party Guest (uncredited)
Vinita Sharma ... Bollywood Medley Wedding Dancer (uncredited)
Kabir Singh ... Main Band Member (uncredited)
Amanda Smith Amanda Smith ... Bollywood Dance Class Dancer (uncredited)
Karol Steele Karol Steele ... Passer-by (uncredited)
Faith Tarby ... Silent Ballroom Dancer (uncredited)
Lora Thomsen ... Concert Rocker (uncredited)
Matt Townsend ... Posh Restaurant Diner (uncredited)
Marina Ungureanu Marina Ungureanu ... Concert Rocker (uncredited)
Elena Valdameri ... Jazz Club Goer (uncredited)
Dean Weir Dean Weir ... The University Lecturer (uncredited)
Sehar Zam Sehar Zam ... Backup Singer / Wedding Dancer / Concert Goer (uncredited)

Produced by 

Kaur Akvinder ... executive producer
Crispin Buxton ... line producer
Marijke Desouza ... executive producer
Hiroo Johar ... producer
Karan Johar ... producer
Ishvinder Maddh ... line producer (credit only) / service producer (credit only)
Apoorva Mehta ... producer
Andreas Payer ... line producer
Malika Singh ... supervising producer
Rohini Tekchandaney ... line producer

Music by 

Pritam Chakraborty

Cinematography by 

Anil Mehta

Editing by 

Manik Dawar

Casting By 

Poorvi Shah ... (uk)
Shanoo Sharma

Production Design by 

Amrita Mahal
Natasha Poonawala

Art Direction by 

Iain Andrews

Set Decoration by 

Taseer Shaikh

Costume Design by 

Manish Malhotra
Anaita Shroff
Samidha Wangnoo

Makeup Department 

Daniel Bauer ... makeup artist: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Nisha Davdra ... mehndi henna artist
Uschi Filipp ... makeup artist
Amit Gupta ... makeup artist
Arun Indulkar ... makeup artist
Manish Joshi ... makeup department head
Manny Samra ... makeup & hair
Vinod B. Upadhyay ... makeup artist

Production Management 

Abhay Bhedasgaonkar ... production controller
Simon Cullen ... unit production manager
Hugo Martin-Lassagne ... assistant unit manager: Paris Location
Askari Qureshi ... post producer
Ashish Sehgal ... production supervisor
Mahammad Sabir Shaikh ... production controller
Aattish Siingh ... post-production manager (as Aatish Singh)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director 

Richard Banks ... additional assistant director
Farhaan Colabawalla ... additional assistant director
Yohan Contractor ... assistant director
Siddhesh Ghosalkar ... assistant director
Aadar Jain ... trainee assistant director
Rahil Nadiadwala ... assistant director
Rd Prakash ... additional second assistant director
Dara Sandhu ... assistant director
Sharic Sequeira ... second assistant director
Saurabh Shrivastav ... second assistant director
Santosh Singh ... associate director

Art Department 

Siddhima Dubey ... intern
Rebecca Gillies ... production buyer
Apurva Gondalia ... art director: UK
Kimberley Hussey ... production buyer (as Kimberley McBeath)
Abhijit Khatu ... graphic designer
Francois Poublan ... property master
Tom Roberts ... property master
Tom Roberts ... property master
Caterina Vanzi ... prop storeman
Rod Whiting ... property master
Daisy Wormell ... production buyer

Sound Department 

Nikunj Arora ... asst re-recording mixer
Sayed Aslam ... foley artist
Ali Merchant ... sound designer
Shubho Deep Mittra ... sound recordist (as Subhadeep Mitra)
Gandhar Mokashi ... associate re-recording mixer
Ajay Kumar P.B. ... re-recording mixer
Justin E. Thomas ... asst re-recording mixer
Rohit Meena ... sound recordist (uncredited)

Visual Effects by 

Prashant Agrawal ... visual effects line producer
Swapnil Andraskar ... dynamics artist: prime focus
Praveen Bareria ... visual effects lead
Bhavin Barot ... prep artist
Keaton Cardoza ... compositor
Sneha Chavan ... digital compositor: visual effects
Dhirendra Chhatpar ... visual effects editor: dailies
Mayuresh Chowdhari ... vfx editor
Siddhartha Gandhi ... lead colorist vfx: redchillies.vfx
Shobhit Garg ... visual effects artist: Red Chillies Entertainment
Anish Godbole ... compositor
Nitten Gurjal ... modeler
Haresh Hingorani ... Chief Creative Officer
Persie Jalgaonwala ... senior lightig artist
Bright Jani ... background prep artist
Avnish Jha ... texture lead
Shivprasad Kawade ... prime focus: compositor
Amit Kumar ... lead compositor: prime focus
Nitesh Kumar ... lighting artist: look dev artist: visual effects
Sudhir Kurupudi ... senior compositor: primefocus
Abhijeet Lamture ... texture lead: prime focus
Aditya Rajendra Malushte ... visual effects editor: prime focus
Jitendra Mishra ... BG Prep Artist
Swapnali Mumbarkar ... visual effects coordinator
Truptesh Naik ... compositor
Chirag Hasmukh Parmar ... Sr. VFX Lighting/Lookdev Artist
Mayuresh Powar ... compositor
Vaishali Rana ... compositor
Mrinal Ranjan ... digital compositor: prime focus
Sahu Vidya Sagar ... Compositor: RED CHILLIES VFX
Navin Saran ... Sr. Line Producer
Sumit Sarkar ... digital compositor: Prime Focus LTD
Jimit Shah ... background prep lead
Hussain Shaikh ... compositor
Apurva Raj Kumar Sharma ... production coordinator
Satyendra Sharma ... prep supervisor
Abhishek Shaw ... face match
Dhiraj Shetty ... compositor
Suryaji Suryavanshi ... lead compositor: prime focus
Anand Swain ... visual effects artist
Santosh Tendulkar ... modelling artist
Yogendra Tonke ... cg supervisor: primefocus
Kiran Totre ... visual effects artist
Vipin Tripathi ... digital compositor
Vinay Vadlakonda ... Compositors
Arjun Yadav ... showreel producer
Keitan Yadav ... Chief Operating Officer

Camera and Electrical Department 

Tarun Achpal ... aerial cinematographer
Gautam Chaudhary ... focus puller
Nicholas Clarke ... electrician
Yohann Gence ... electrician: french unit
Aditya Kapur ... gimbal operator
Sitanshu Khamari ... focus puller
Maajid Khan ... still photographer
Shamim Khan ... gaffer
Manmath Khatoi ... Operative cameraman
Rahat Kulshreshtha ... aerial cinematographer
B. Durga Kishore Kumar ... first assistant camera / focus puller
Pradeep Padma Kumar ... assistant camera
Mohan Babu Lakshminarayanappa Bojaraja ... assistant camera (as Mohanbabu) / d.i.t (as Mohanbabu)
Brett Lamerton ... key grip
Parvez-Shaikh ... gaffer
Lalit Sahoo ... second unit cinematographer
Parvesh Shaikh ... gaffer
Stamos Triantafyllos ... steadicam operator: uk - france - austria

Animation Department 

Amit Sompura ... animator

Casting Department 

Deepak Mehrotra ... casting agency: DM Stars India
Magda Sobolewska ... extras casting: UK
Saikishore Annamaraju ... casting assistant (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department 

Nikita Jaisinghani ... stylist
Kanysshka Miglani ... costume assistant
Dilip Sonker ... costume assistant

Editorial Department 

Nirmal Gala ... digital intermediate production head
Swati Jaiswal ... Associate Editor
Lokesh Mahajan ... behind the scene editor
Bikramaditya Majumder ... making-of editor
Vaibhav Marathe ... visual effects dailies editor
Siddharth S Pande ... Visual Promotions / chief editor (as Siddharth Pande)
Kamlesh Parui ... assistant editor
Anil Rodhan ... promo editor
Sunny Singh ... colorist
Girish Takle ... editor

Location Management 

Christiane Mayr ... location manager

Music Department 

Nakash Aziz ... playback singer
Badshah ... playback singer
Bob Baxmeyer ... musician: guitar
Shamita Bhatkar ... background music
Amitabh Bhattacharya ... lyricist
Meghdeep Bose ... additional music producer: background scores
Rohan Chauhan ... music programmer
Aggi Agnelo Fernandes ... score producer (as Aggi)
Jonita Gandhi ... playback singer
Nikhil Paul George ... producer
Lillie Harris ... music preparation
Ramon Ibrahim ... composer: additional music
Tushar Joshi ... vocal conductor
Yuri Kalnits ... violin
Ash King ... playback singer
Ashwin Kulkarni ... recorded and mixed
Sunny M.R. ... Backing Vocals / Music Editor / Music Producer / Score Mixer / recording supervisor / score music producer / songs mixer
Qaran Mehta ... music producer: arranger
Amit Mishra ... playback singer
Sameer Nichani ... composer: additional music
Anup Pathade ... musician
Samuel Pegg ... orchestrator
Akash Pranami ... title music: flute
Shilpa Rao ... playback singer
Shadab Rayeen ... songs final mixing and mastering
Himanshu Shirlekar ... recording engineer
Arijit Singh ... playback singer
Shashwat Singh ... playback singer
Hilary Skewes ... musician contractor
Ketan Sodha ... composer: additional music
Pardeep Singh Sran ... playback singer
Sujith Sreedhar ... recording engineer
Tanuj Tiku ... composer: additional music
Aaroh Velankar ... music engineer
Mr. Xherlie ... music editor
Warren Zielinski ... musician: violin

Transportation Department 

Attila Beke ... driver: to Mrs. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan: Austria uni
Christine Klinger ... driver
Bruce Patel ... transportation captain

Additional Crew 

Nikunj Bagdi ... lead production accountant
Amit Basnet ... accountant (as Amit Bass)
Burny Bharanidharan ... head of research & development
Purushottam Chettiyar ... production accountant
Callum Costello ... runner
Marek George ... legal services for the production
Alpa Golcha ... marketing
Apurva Gondalia ... production coordinator
Paul Hillier ... insurance: UK
Tushar Kalia ... choreographer
Shikha Kapur ... chief marketing officer
Hassaan Khalid ... Artist Manager
Firuzi Khan ... producer consultant
Maajid Khan ... publicity stills
David Krouse ... Staff: Los Angeles Theatrical Run
Anil Mehta ... director of production
Sreeti Mukerji ... creative director
Himanshu Nanda ... publicity design
Rahul Nanda ... publicity design
Binny Padda ... visual promotion
Ravi Padda ... visual promotion
Siddharth S Pande ... visual promotions (as Siddharth Pande)
Apurva Sharma ... production coordinator
Sharan Sharma ... creative director
Kalpesh Sidhpura ... production accountant
Christina Stadler ... extras on set coordinator: Vienna
Raj Surani ... dancers coordinator
Abhishek Vaidya ... Promo Editor: Sony Music India
Sudesh Vaidya ... Financial Advisor
Parag Vijra ... Promotional event Director
Rohan Yellore ... visual artist (as visual jockey)
Richard Woolford ... banking services provided by (uncredited)

Thanks 

Kaajal Anand ... special thanks
Alia Bhatt ... special thanks
Neha Dhupia ... special thanks
Farah Khan ... special thanks
Amit Kothari ... special thanks
Bhushan Kumar ... special thanks
Sanjay Mishra ... thanks
Dino Morea ... special thanks
Reema Sangar ... special thanks

See also

Release Dates | Official Sites | Company Credits | Filming & Production | Technical Specs

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