First up, Karan Johar's Ae Dil Hai Mushkil is not half as bad as social media would want you to believe. And no, this is not a "paid review", like many Twitter-happy trolls would want to think. The writer is a lowly serf who pays for his own movie tickets and if he was actually on Karan Johar's payroll, he would fly off to Paris in his private jet just aiwe, like KJo's Ae Dil Hai Mushkil hero Ayan does. But no, here he is, sitting in his office, batting for Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, because there is much to love, appreciate and cherish in this romantic, emotional drama.
People are asking questions like, "Okay, who goes to Paris after heartbreak?" or "Who pines for the same girl for years yaar? Get a life, dude!" which are, perhaps, legitimate things to ask, because writers and critics are paid peanuts and Saif Ali Khan has taught us that it is uncool to be a loser in love.
Jokes aside, the aforementioned complaints are so silly and stupid that Karan Johar SHOULD turn Ae Dil Hai Mushkil into a self-indulgent trilogy of sappy romances (Title suggestions for remaining two films: Ae Dil Abhi Bhi Hai Mushkil and Aur Phir Se Dil Hai Mushkil) just to screw with these people! He can afford to; after all, he does not have to give patriot tax anymore.
Anyway, a fictional character's wealth or profession should ideally not come in the way of relating to his/her human emotions; emotions as basic as love, jealousy, heartbreak, lust, hunger, whatever. Can you say you hated Lagaan because you could not relate to it because Bhuvan and co. are poor peasants from 19th Century India? Did you have to pay teen goona lagaan to white people? No. But you still enjoyed their story.
So, when someone goes on a trip to Paris after his heart is broken (because he can bloody afford it, doofus, and it has been established he is Richie Rich), what is the issue in that?
It is difficult to understand people who walk into the theatre to watch a macho Salman Khan potboiler and then, walk out to complain, "Yaar matlab kitni unrealistic hai, matlab Salman hai to kuch bhi karlega na?" The star cast, the director and his/her body of work and the film's promos together should give you an idea about what a film is going to be like. If you thought KJo's characters are going to be chindi and gareeb like you, the joke's on you.