The ‘will-it-won’t-it’ controversy raging around Karan Johar’s Ae Dil Hai Mushkil simply refuses to go off the front pages in these times when anti-Pakistani sentiments are at an all-time high.

With single-screen exhibitors already turning their back with just days to go before release, right-wing political parties, like the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena have upped their demands to stall the release, demanding that the makers have to delete all scenes of Pakistani actor Fawad Khan from the movie.