Filmmaker Karan Johar completes 25 years as a filmmaker in 2023. He made his directorial debut in 1998 with Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. Whereas talking to dressmaker Prabal Gurung, the filmmaker revealed how his father and filmmaker Yash Johar wished him to be an actor as he thought of him ‘the most good-looking man,’ and and the way his good pals Shah Rukh Khan and Aditya Chopra stepped in.
The 2 inspired Karan Johar and Yash Johar each to let the previous be behind the digicam and make movies, and the remaining is historical past.
On his former lover
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Karan Johar has mentioned this in a lot of his interviews that Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, his 2016 directorial, stemmed from a private expertise of ache, anguish, and one-sided love. In a current interview with Mid-day, he opened up about this lover he didn’t identify and revealed, “That person was completely sensitive to me and went through every beat with me with utmost sensitivity so I can neither hate that person nor can be indifferent towards them. Today, that person is very much part of my family.”
On Shah Rukh Khan
As a part of the dialog with Mid-Day, Karan Johar revealed snippets from a ‘scary incident’ that unfolded on the premiere evening of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai starring Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Rani Mukerji. The filmmaker shared that he was hiding in a lodge room after receiving a risk from a gangster.
On Bollywood’s Baadshah being his most cherished good friend, the ace director revealed how he stood by him like a rock. Karan mentioned, “I’ll never forget how Shah Rukh brought me out. He said, ‘I’ll take the bullet for you, you just stand here’. That’s when I realised this is a forever relationship.”