Karan Johar Biography

Karan Kumar Johar is a multi-talented celebrity who is not just a film director but also a producer, screenwriter, costume designer, actor and television personality who is known for her work in Bollywood. Also referred as KJo, he was born on 25 May 1972, spent his childhood in Mumbai. He made his debut with directing the rom-com super hit movie “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai”, which earned him his first Filmfare Award for Best Director and another Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay. His next films Kabhi Khushi Kabhi gham and Kabhi Alvida Na kehna were also very well recognized and loved by the critics and audiences. Apart from these movies, movies like Raazi and My Name Is Khan also won filmfare awards and gave him immense popularity.

Other than these filmfares, he has earned a number of awards, which has made him a distinguished and well known director of the Bollywood industry. Karan johar has also been a part of a celebrity talk show known as “Koffee with Karan”, in which he interviews and chats with other actors and take their views and have fun. Other than this he has been a judge of a few reality shows like jhalak dikhla jaa, India’s got talent and India’s next superstar. Let’s get in more details about his family, education, career, movies, controversies and more.

Education of Karan Johar

Karan Johar has an M.A. in French from H.R. College of Commerce and Economics. He did his schooling from Greenlaws High School in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Karan Johar Family

He was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra into a high class Hindu family that had strong connections from Bollywood industry. He is the son of late Yash Johar, a film producer and Hiroo Johar, also a producer. Karan does not have a wife but has two kids through surrogacy, a boy named Yash and a daughter named Roohi. Yash was named after his grandfather and Roohi was named after karan’s mother hirro by reassembling her name. He has cousin brothers aditya chopra and Uday Chopra who are big names of Bollywood.

Karan Johar Career in TV

Notwithstanding filling in as an associate executive on Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Johar was an entertainer in the film, assuming the minor job of accompanying Shah Rukh Khan’s character. From that point forward, he has shown up playing himself in films like Om Shanti Om, Fashion, and Luck by Chance. 

He made his undeniable acting introduction close by Ranbir Kapoor and Anushka Sharma in Anurag Kashyap’s period dramatization Bombay Velvet, in which he played the primary rival. In spite of the fact that the film didn’t perform well, Karan earned some gratefulness for his presentation.

Johar is the host of Koffee with Karan, in this talk show he interviewed actors, directors, producers, and other major artists of the film industry, also in an episode a few cricketers were included. Series ran in from 2004 to 2019, with six seasons as of June 2020. He has worked as a judge on a reality shows Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa along with Madhuri Dixit and Remo D’Souza, India’s Got Talent along with Malaika Arora, Kirron Kher, and with Farah Khan in India’s Next Superstars along with Rohit Shetty. Here is the list of television shows he has been part of:

Karan Johar Movies

Karan Johar entered the movie business as an assistant to Aditya Chopra’s Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, which is one of the most successful movies of Hindi cinema. He at that point made his own directorial debut with a classic rom-com drama Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. The main portion of the film fixates on a school love triangle between an unfeeling kid (Shah Rukh Khan), his fiery closest companion (Kajol), and the prettiest young lady at the school (Rani Mukerji), while the subsequent half communities on the now-bereaved kid’s endeavor to reconnect with his closest companion who is presently drawn in to wed another man (Salman Khan). The film turned into a significant blockbuster in the cinema world and got positive surveys from movie critics.

His next directorial adventure was the troupe family acting Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham. The film featured biggest superstars of industry like Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, and Shah Rukh Khan and Hrithik Roshan as their two children; the story revolves around the father not accepting his son’s choice because of his ego and the other son trying to get them first son and the father together. The movie also featured popular actresses of their time, Kajol and Kareena Kapoor as sisters from a lower-class family who become interests of Khan and Roshan individually. The film turned into Johar’s second significant blockbuster in the cinema world and got positive surveys from criticss. This movie is still considered as one of the best movies of Karan Johar among so many of his super hits.

After a while, he came up with another directorial adventure movie on social dramatization My Name Is Khan in 2010, the first movie which was not composed by him. The plot follows a Muslim man with Asperger’s disorder having a Hindu spouse, played by Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol, living in San Francisco and face racial discrimination after 11 September assaults. The movie turned into a significant business achievement, and got so many positive reviews from movies critics who commended Johar’s flighty directorial style.

He collaborated again with Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap, and Dibakar Banerjee for Lust Stories (2018), it was a short collection of films released by netflix. The film was lauded for its investigation of female sexuality, a subject which has been left untouched by Indian movies. Johar’s section rotated around a recently hitched teacher played by Kiara Advani whose spouse Vicky Kaushal neglects to perceive her absence of sexual fulfillment. Here is the list of movies he has been part of as writer, director and producer:

Karan Johar Controversy

Some of his biggest controversies are as:

Uri attack

In 2016, after the Uri attack by Pakistan on the nations army, this led to a huge uproar. After the attack all the Pakistani artists were banned from playing a role in Indian movies, actors like Fawad Khan and Mahira Khan left the country but Karan still remained in touch and supported the actors on twitter. Following this, MNS threatened Karan for doing so, and threatened to beat him up for so.

Prabhas Rift

In the year 2018, there were some news regarding a rift between him and actor Prabhas. This was because Prabhas rejected another movie of Karan due to some salary issues, as per the reports. However, later the actor himself shut the news saying it is completely fake.

Twitter War

Once Karan and other film director Ram Gopal Verma got in a cold war with each other after RGV expressed his desire to make remake of Karan’s movie “Raavan” as “My Name is Raavan”, which was an indirect dig towards Karan’s movie “My Name is Khan”. This didn’t go well with Karan and after this, both of them caught in twitter war saw by everyone.

AIB

Another popular controversy associated with him that raised many questions for its controversial content was when he along with stars like Deepika Padukone, Sonakshi Sinha, Alia Bhatt, Ranveer Singh, and other stars participated in “AIB Knockout Roast”. Post the event, a complaint was filed against them for indulging in obscene behavior in Public.

Ajay-Karan Controversy

In the year 2016, actor Ajay Devgn revealed that Karan Johar has payed KRK for praising his movie “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil” and discrediting movie “Shivaay” in which Ajay played the main lead.

Nepotism

Sushant Singh Rajput ended it all at his Bandra home on the morning of June 14. He was 34 and was experiencing wretchedness. The updates on the youthful on-screen character’s destruction sent stun waves the country over, and tributes began pouring in. Many film stars, VIPs, fans and political pioneers, including the country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, mourned Sushant Singh Rajput’s end on Twitter. IT began at the KWK, Kangana Ranaut pointed and blaimed kaan for promoting nepotism. The scene highlights Kangana with Saif Ali Khan, what before long transformed into an ordinary discussion was her comment on nepotism. She even proceeded to call Karan the ‘flag bearer of nepotism’.

The subject has been a piece of conversation from that point forward, and lead to numerous other epic minutes with the Bollywood stars being approached to favor one side. It prompted star kids being reprimanded and put under investigation while it likewise opened up more entryways for ability from outside the business. The cause of death of the actor was suicide, the scene was made to look as if it was the fault of karan johar and similar personals who promoted nepotism in the acting community. In Bihar a case has also been filed against karan Johar and a few renowned artists for this.

Unknown facts about karan johar

Some unknown facts about this popular celebrity are as:

• He charged only 11 Rupees for his role in Bombay Velvet as his fee.
• His father who was a film producer, wanted him to become an actor and was even ready to launch him.
• In 2006, he became the first Indian filmmaker to be a Jury member in “Miss World Competition”.
• In the year 2007, Johar was also among the world’s best 250 Global Young Leaders, chosen by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum.
• Most of his movies started with the k alphabet but after the movie “Lage raho munna bhai”, he stopped using k in his movies.
• It was through his movie “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai” that he adopted the idea of making love triangle movies.
• The idea to make movie “Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna” came into his mind “Before Sunset” during one of his trip to London.
• In 2017, he was included in the world economic forum as the cultural leader.
• Karan owns a master’s degree for the french subject.
• He is also the only Indian other than the former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to have been invited for the opening ceremony of the London Olympics.