Filmmaker Karan Johar recently made an appearance on the Masters' Union podcast. The promo of the same has been unveiled and it features Karan spilling the beans about the industry.
He is also seen revealing how he lost money with his film ‘Student Of The Year’, which starred Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan and Sidharth Malhotra. KJo, as he is fondly called, further called the Telugu film industry 'most lucrative.'
Speaking about his company Dharma Production, Karan said it started off with two people, just like a start-up. Recalling how Yash Chopra told him 'a film never fails, a budget does,” Karan said, "Like I told you about ‘Student Of The Year’. Like I made a hit film and lost my money. I literally popped a pill every night." He added, "I have so much emotion. My heart lies in Hindi cinema. But if you ask me, as a business person, I think Telugu is a far more lucrative industry.”
When asked who is earning what part of the film money, the filmmaker quipped, "Unfortunately, a pie of that is with the movie stars. I might be murdered for saying this, but if you are opening to five crores and you are asking me for 20 crores, how is that fair? Delusion is one disease that has no vaccine." In the same video, Karan claimed that there exists no 'black money' in the industry, and nothing comes from 'irrational sources.'
Reacting to the promo, fans couldn’t contain their excitement. While one of them commented, "You can hate him or love him. But you can't ignore him. That's Karan Johar for you,” another wrote, "He's mostly been honest about Telugu cinema, South cinema and also cinema in general (about business and movies). I appreciate karan for that. Can't wait for the whole podcast. Looking forward to it.”
Previously in 2018 too, Karan had mentioned how the industry stars and filmmakers have deluded themselves into believing they still had the power to draw audiences. He claimed that they demand salaries in double digits.
Karan had told Galatta Plus, "Today if I want to launch a new talent, a new boy or girl, nobody is going to watch that film. Because we'd have to promote that film so much that how do you recover that PNA (personal networking agency). So the way the marketing goes in other languages, Hindi is ridiculous."
Karan Johar's next film is ‘Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani’, which stars Alia Bhatt, Ranveer Singh, Dharmendra, Shabana Azmi and Jaya Bachchan.
