Every tear that you shed when you watch a film of mine is a dollar in my account said Karan Johar one of the top influential persons in the Hindi film industry. You weep and I laugh all the way to the bank,” Karan said on a lighter note.
Among the other projects that Dharma Productions, which is currently gearing up for the Diwali release of Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, is a Dhyan Chand biopic. “We will make that film when we get the casting and the time right,” he said.
All through the conversation, Johar touched upon aspects of the Mumbai movie industry that make it such a unique beast. Talking about his love for film music, he quipped, “Why do you a need a therapist when you have Hindi film songs?”
About his shot at acting in Anurag Kashyap’s Bombay Velvet, Johar said, “There were too many gap days and too much hanging around doing nothing. I was bored with the process.
That is probably why nobody has offered me another role, not even a bad one that I can refuse,” he concluded.
“The success of a film like Kapoor & Sons is proof that the audience is evolving faster than the filmmakers. Many of us in the industry, including me, are caught in a time warp.”
Kapoor & Sons, bankrolled by Johar’s Dharma Productions, had a gay protagonist. “Six actors rejected the role because they were scared to play a homosexual character.
Fawad Khan, who took the part and owned it, is not only a great actor but also a brave one,” he said.
