Karan Johar - Most Publicized Bollywood Filmmaker
Karan was born to Hiroo and Yash Johar in the year 1972
. His father, Yash Johar, was the founder of the film production house Dharma Productions, and was among the top film producers in the 80s. Hence, Karan was very much influenced by the Hindi film industry at a very young age.
He was less into studies and was more engrossed by films right from his childhood, particularly commercial Indian cinema. He was greatly inspired by film makers Raj Kapoor, Yash Chopra and Sooraj R. Barjatya. As a child, Karan always dreams of being a famous celebrity.
His father was a highly influential figure in Bollywood, so Karan grew up amidst the company of the Bachchans, the Kapoors, the Roshans, the Yash Raj family among whom Hrithik Roshan, Uday Chopra, Abhishek Bachchan were among his best of friends.
Karan would attend their birthday parties and would hang out with them discussing just films. On the other hand, while studying at Green Lawn High School in South Mumbai, Karan would never disclose to his school friends that his father was a film producer in Bollywood.
When asked about his father, Karan would insist that his father had nothing to do with films, and that he was just a businessman. So he often denied any connection with the film industry. Karan peer group, in his school, looked down upon Bollywood and hence, he kept all his admiration for films within himself.
As Karan grew up, he realized that his love for cinema kept growing too: rushing home after school to catch movies on video, collecting the latest Hindi films, attending review screenings and bursting into tears when his parents would refuse to take him for preview shows. Karan could not restrain himself from his biggest passion cinema.
It was while studying at H R College of Commerce and Economics in Mumbai, Karan bonded deeply with Yash Chopra eldest son, Aditya Chopra, who himself was equally passionate about movies.
Together, they would discuss films and just films open halfheartedly. It was this Aditya, who had kept something waiting for the film maker in Karan. Karan, under his banner Dharma Productions, co produced Duplicate in 1998.
His first sole film as a producer was KAL HO NA HO (2003) which was written by Karan himself and directed by his assistant Nikhil Advani. In 2005, Karan co produced KAAL with Shahrukh Red Chillies Entertainment. In the year 2007, Karan became a full fledged producer and announced about half a dozen films to be directed by newcomers who had been his assistants on his films.
The first one been Tarun Mansukhani Dostana (2008), followed by Ayan Mukerji Wake Up Sid (2009), then Renzil Dilvas Kurbaan (2009) and Punit Malhotra I Hate Luv Stories (2010). Except Kurbaan, all the other films have performed well enough.
Upcoming films are Siddharth Malhotra We Are Family (2010) and Tarun Mansukhani Koochie Koochie Hota Hai (2010). Karan had appeared on the small screen in the sci fi series Indradhanush (1989) based on time travel which was directed by Anant Mahadevan. Karan is also the host of the television chat show Koffee with Karan where he interviews renowned celebrities from Bollywood and India glamor world.
Two seasons of the show have already been aired, the first in 2004 06 and the second in 2007. He ready with the third season and it promises to be even bitchier. In 2010, Karan hosted the talk show Lift Kara De which featured 20 Bollywood actors on a quest for their biggest fan.
Karan is known to have a great taste in clothes. He had designed costumes for Shahrukh Khan for Dil To Pagal Hai (1997), Duplicate (1998), Veer Zara (2004) and Main Hoon Na (2004), Mohabbatein (2000) and Om Shanti Om (2007).
Karan Johar is on the board of the television entertainment company NDTV Imagine, where he will work with the company to achieve new levels of excellence in entertainment programming. In 2007, Karan was chosen as one of the 250 Global Young Leaders by the Geneva based World Economic Forum 2006.
In 30 September 2006, Karan became the first Indian filmmaker to be a Jury member in the Miss World competition, in Warsaw, Poland.
by: Karishma Roy
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