Chennai: Director of upcoming Bollywood movie ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’ Karan Johar applauded Aishwarya Rai for her performance and tweeted birthday wishes to her yesterday.

‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’ is an upcoming romantic flick which is written and directed by Karan Johar. The movie features Fawad Khan, Aishwarya Rai, Anushka Sharma and Ranbir Kapoor in lead roles.  Pritam scores music and Anil Mehta handles cinematography.

The project is funded by Karan Johar and Hiroo Yash Johar under Dharma Productions banner. Imran Abbas and Lisa Haydon are also part of the cast. Aishwaraya Rai joined the team after the release of ‘Jazbaa’.

Right now the actress is working in London for the movie and she has got permission from the director to take a day off to celebrate her birthday with her husband Abhishek Bachchan, daughter Aaradhya and Mother Vrinda Rai. Aishwarya turned 42 on 1st of November.

Karan took micro-blogging site to post his views on the gorgeous actress. He tweeted, “It’s been absolutely wonderful working with her!!! Happy birthday to the stunning Aishwariya…. “