Karan Johar is an Indian film director, producer, writer and TV host. He is widely known as ‘KJO’. Karan Johar is considered one of India’s most successful filmmakers.
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Karan Johar was born as ‘Rahul Kumar Johar’ on 25 May 1972 (age 51 years; as in 2023) in Mumbai. When he was born, his parents named him Rahul. However, after a few days, he changed it to ‘Karan’, making him ‘Karan Kumar Johar’. His zodiac sign is Gemini.
Karan Johar in childhood
Karan did his schooling from Greenlawns High School, Mumbai. He studied at HR College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai and holds an MA in French.
Physical Appearance
Height (Approx): 5′ 10″
Eye colour: dark brown
Hair Color: Black
Family, Caste and Girlfriend
Karan Johar’s father Yash Johar was a film producer.
Karan Johar with his father Yash Johar
His mother Hiroo Johar is also a film producer.
Karan Johar with his mother Hiroo Johar
Famous filmmakers Baldev Raj Chopra and Yash Chopra are his maternal uncles.
Baldev Raj Chopra
Yashraj Chopra
Cinematographer Dharam Raj Chopra and film distributor Raj Chopra are also his maternal uncles. Vimala Chopra is his aunt. Ravi Chopra (film producer and director), Aditya Chopra (film producer and director), and Uday Chopra (actor, producer, screenwriter) are his maternal uncles.
Ravi Chopra
Uday Chopra
Rani Mukherjee is Karan Johar’s sister-in-law, as she is married to his cousin Aditya Chopra.
Aditya Chopra and Rani Mukherjee
Adira Chopra, Kapil Chopra and Abhay Chopra are nephews of Karan Johar.
Rani Mukherjee with her daughter Adira Chopra
Abhay Chopra
Johar became the father of twins through surrogacy. Karan’s son Yash’s name is taken from his grandfather Yash Chopra, and his daughter’s name ‘Roohi’ is a rearrangement of her mother Hiru’s name.
Karan Johar’s children, Yash and Roohi Johar
livelihood
Karan Johar started his career as an actor with the 1989 Doordarshan serial “Indradhanush”.
Karan Johar in a scene from Rainbow
He made his first Bollywood appearance as an actor with the role of Shahrukh Khan’s friend in the film “Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge”.
Karan Johar in a scene from the film “Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge”
Karan entered the film industry as an assistant director with the film “Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995)”. He made his directorial debut with the film “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai” (1998), which was a major blockbuster.
He worked as a costume designer for Shahrukh Khan in films like ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995),’ ‘Mohabbatein (2000),’ ‘Main Hoon Na (2004),’ ‘Veer-Zaara (2004),’ and many more. Did. “Om Shanti Om (2007).” Karan Johar hosts the show “Koffee with Karan” aired on Star World. He has also been a judge on several reality shows like “Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa” and “India’s Got Talent”. Karan has produced several films under Dharma Productions, which he took over after his father’s death, the first film being “Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003)”.
He wrote a book on his life titled “An Unsuitable Boy”, which was published in 2016.
controversies
- In 2018, there were rumors that Karan and actor Prabhas had a falling out; Because Prabhas had rejected another film of Karan due to salary problem. Later Prabhas put an end to the rumors by saying that this news is fake.
- Indian film directors Ram Gopal Varma and Karan Johar are always in a cold war with each other. The fight started when Ram Gopal expressed his desire to make “My Name Is Raavan”, a remake of “Raavan (2010)”, which was an indirect dig at Karan Johar’s “My Name Is Khan”. Karan replied, “Your sense of humor is amazing Ramu! However, this is never seen in your films.” Something similar happened at the time of Karan’s film “Student of the Year (2019)”, when Ram Gopal had tweeted that if anyone sees Karan Johar’s Student of the Year If he is removed from Teacher of the Year, it will be the disaster of the year. , To which Karan replied, “Disaster is your domain Ramu…no one can replace the comfortable space you have created for yourself there.”
- In 2016, Ajay Devgan reportedly suspected that Karan was paying Kamal Rashid Khan only to praise Karan’s upcoming film “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil” and defame Ajay Devgan’s film Shivaay.
- After the Uri attack in September 2016, MNS and Shiv Sena had demanded Pakistani artistes to leave India and also asked the filmmakers to remove their scenes from the film. Even though actors Fawad Khan and Mahira Khan left India, Karan still supported them on Twitter. Karan was being threatened by MNS, who said that they would beat him up if Karan continued to work with Pakistani actors.
- In Koffee With Karan, Anushka Sharma revealed how Karan Johar touched her inappropriately on the sets of “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil”. Anushka even said that she is going to file a sexual harassment case against him and further said that even Jacqueline Fernandez once complained about Karan touching her inappropriately.
- He created controversy with his statement on Anushka Sharma’s character in the film “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (2016)”. In his statement, he gave a strange reason for the death of Anushka’s character in the film. He said-
Yes, the last track got a lot of polarized reactions and rightfully so, but I felt like if she doesn’t love him (Ranbir Kapoor), she has to die. I have written this character. He loved her very madly. She could love him back, why couldn’t she? So he got cancer and died.”
- After the suicide of Sushant Singh Rajput, a new debate broke out on social media regarding nepotism in Bollywood. At the center of this case was Karan Johar who was accused of promoting nepotism in the industry. Even an FIR was filed in Bihar against Karan Johar, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Salman Khan and Ekta Kapoor.
- In September 2020, amid the Bollywood drug controversy, which was investigated by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Karan Johar’s name also surfaced; Subsequently, various news channels started implicating him for hosting a drug party in 2019 and a video of that alleged drug party, which surfaced for the first time in 2019, resurfaced on news channels. In the video, several Bollywood celebrities including Deepika Padukone, Ranbir Kapoor, Vicky Kaushal, Shahid Kapoor, Varun Dhawan, Malaika Arora and Arjun Kapoor and filmmakers Zoya Akhtar and Ayan Mukherjee were seen consuming drugs. Later, the NCB arrested Kshitij Prasad, a former employee of Dharmatic Entertainment (the digital arm of Dharma Productions) and interrogated him for hours. On 25 September 2020, Karan Johar took to Twitter to clarify his stance on his name being dragged into the drug controversy. In this Twitter post, Kan Johar denied the allegations of hosting any drug party and said that he has never consumed drugs; He also warned of taking legal action in the matter.
– Karan Johar (@karanjohar) 25 September 2020
award
national film awards
- Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment for the film “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai” in 2000
filmfare awards
- Karan Johar with his Filmfare Award
- Best Director for the film “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai” in 1999
- Best Screenplay for the film “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai” in 1999
- Best Dialogue for the film “Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham” in 2002
- Best Director for the film “My Name is Khan” in 2011
- Best Film for “Raazi” in 2019
state award
- Padma Shri in 2020
Favorite
- Filmmaker: Raj Kapoor, Yash Chopra, Sooraj R Barjatya, Rajkumar Hirani
- TV Show: The Golden Girls
- Drinks: St. Emilion (wine), Dom Pérignon (pink champagne)
- Restaurant: Starbucks Coffee in Mumbai
collection of cars
He has a Jaguar XF.
net worth
His net worth is approximately ₹835 crore ($172 million).
fact
- Since childhood, he loved dancing to old Bollywood songs and was a big fan of Bollywood movies.
Karan Johar is dancing
- He wanted to become a hair stylist at the age of 4, a doctor at the age of 10, a copywriter at the age of 15 and finally got involved in film production at the age of 20.
- Initially, Karan used to follow numerology as he created the titles of his films, with the first word starting with the letter ‘K’. After watching the 2006 film “Lage Raho Munna Bhai”, Karan decided to stop this practice. Regarding the impact of the film on him, he said-
When I walked out of the cinema hall after watching Lage Raho Munna Bhai in New York, I thought I should skip K. This was the effect the film had on me. It inspires you to speak the truth and fills you with inspiration and strength. I want to overcome this and become stronger. This does not mean that I will drop the K from my name and become Aran.
- He is very attached to his mother and is sometimes called ‘Mumma’s Boy’.
- Karan came into film direction by assisting his uncle, late Yash Chopra, in some of his films.
Karan Johar and Yash Chopra
- He can speak French fluently.
- Karan is fond of cricket and likes to play it whenever he gets time.
- Karan is the first Indian filmmaker to become a jury member at the Miss World pageant held in Warsaw, Poland in 2016.
- Apart from former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Karan is the only Indian to be invited to the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics.
- Karan was selected as one of the 250 Global Young Leaders by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum 2006 in 2007.
- He was appointed as the cultural leader at the World Economic Forum in 2017.
- He loves wearing velvet jackets.
- Karan Johar was good at giving speeches and used to participate in elocution during his school days. He even won many competitions.
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