Karan Johar.
Karan Johar is one of the big names in the Hindi film industry. Apart from being a filmmaker, Karan has been playing many roles in the industry for the last several years. Be it a director, actor, host, RJ or matchmaker, a producer is always appreciated for his contribution to the industry. However, as much as people love the 52-year-old filmmaker, he is equally trolled by the audience for his every move. Karan is often embroiled in controversies, the latest of which is his social media fight with Divya Khosla over the ticket sales of ‘Jigra’. So let’s take a look at the five biggest controversies of Karan Johar’s life.
‘Jigra’ controversy
Alia Bhatt’s film ‘Jigra’ has been released in theaters on October 11. This film hit the theaters with Rajkummar Rao and Tripti Dimri starrer ‘Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video’. However, amid the new release, a social media war broke out between filmmakers and actors Divya Khosla and Karan Johar. It all started with Divya calling ‘Jigra’ collection fake. Later, ‘Jigra’ producer Karan Johar also termed such posts as ‘insignificant’ on his Instagram story. However, an interesting fact about it is that neither of the parties took each other’s name in the beginning, they just shared cryptic posts on Instagram Story. Divya then gave an interview in which she slammed Karan for calling her a fool, as the filmmaker had shared an Instagram story which read, ‘The best answer to fools is to remain silent.’ Karan was also accused of giving preference to Alia over other talents during the casting of ‘Jigra’.
drug party controversy
Karan Johar came into controversy in the year 2019 when he shared the video of one such fancy party on social media. This video shared by Karan included famous Bollywood actors like Deepika Padukone, Arjun Kapoor, Varun Dhawan, Ranbir Kapoor, Shahid Kapoor, Malaika Arora and Vicky Kaushal. As soon as the post went viral, reports of drug consumption started emerging in the party. After watching the video, everyone present at the party was accused of taking drugs and this controversy made a lot of headlines. Later, Karan reacted to the rumors by saying, ‘We all were having a lot of fun in the party. I made that video for my own fun and if there was something going on like drugs, would I have shared it on social media? I’m not that stupid.’
Koffee with Karan episode controversy
Indian all-rounder Hardik Pandya appeared on Karan Johar’s chat show with star batsman KL Rahul. His controversial statements regarding women in ‘Koffee with Karan’ created a lot of discussion on the internet. Not only did Hardik face criticism on social media for his inappropriate comment, but Karan Johar was also blamed for airing the episode even though it was controversial. After the episode went on-air, BCCI banned Hardik and KL Rahul for two ODI matches. Additionally, KWK episodes were removed from Disney+Hotstar.
nepotism debate
Another controversy started with ‘Koffee with Karan’, which later became a big issue for the entire industry. This happened when Kangana appeared on the show with Saif Ali Khan to talk about her film ‘Rangoon’. In the talk show, Kangana commented on nepotism which perhaps even Saif and Karan did not like. Not only this, the actress also called Karan a promoter of nepotism. Since then this controversy has surrounded the Bollywood industry. Whenever a star kid debuts in the industry, it creates controversy and Karan is most known for launching star kids.
Interesting case of Fawad Khan
Karan once again got embroiled in controversy when Pakistan attacked Uri. 19 soldiers of our army were martyred in this attack. Soon after this attack, Karan Johar’s film ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’ was released in theatres, in which Pakistani actor Fawad Khan was also in the lead role. Karan was asked to re-shoot all the scenes of Fawad, because after this attack, Pakistani actors were banned from working in our industry, but Karan did not do so, due to which he was criticized all over the country. There was a lot of controversy regarding this.
When a fight broke out between Karan and Ajay
Karan Johar’s film ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’ and Bollywood superstar Ajay Devgan’s film ‘Shivaay’ were released on the same day. During the promotion of his film, Ajay Devgan tweeted a video related to Karan Johar, which left everyone surprised. In the video, Kamaal R Khan can be heard saying that Karan has given him Rs 25 lakh for giving a good review of ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’. Karan’s very good friend Kajol was surprised to see this video and she retweeted this video. Karan did not like this and wrote about it in his book ‘The Unsuitable Boy’. Although Karan, Ajay and Kajol have now become good friends again, this matter had made a lot of headlines then.
