1. Karan Johar has launched the careers of several successful actors and filmmakers under his company Dharma Productions.
23 Facts About Karan Johar
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Karan Johar has ventured into other avenues of the entertainment industry.
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Karan Johar grew up in what he calls a "cosmopolitan house", as they all communicated in English and his father, an Arya Samaji, would begin his day by reciting Hindu, Sikh and Christian prayers.
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Karan Johar started his career in the entertainment industry as an actor, when he played the role of Shrikant in the 1989 Doordarshan serial Indradhanush.
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In February 2017, Karan Johar became father to twins through surrogacy.
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Karan Johar named his son Yash after his father, and his daughter Roohi named by rearranging his mother's name Hiroo.
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Karan Johar was one of the personalities who was targeted by the late actor's fans for allegedly encouraging nepotism by casting children of established Bollywood stars in his films instead of outsider talents.
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Karan Johar entered the film industry as an assistant director and actor on his cousin, Aditya Chopra's, which is one of the most successful films to date.
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Karan Johar made his own directorial debut with the romantic comedy-drama Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.
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Karan Johar achieved his breakthrough with the ensemble family drama Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham.
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Karan Johar goes from highs to lows, from plateaus to peaks with the ease of a pro.
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Karan Johar knows exactly how to turn a seemingly ordinary scene into something special with just that one line of dialogue, or that hint of background music.
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Karan Johar then teamed up with Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap, and Dibakar Banerjee for Bombay Talkies, an anthology film released to celebrate the centenary year of Hindi cinema.
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The plot of Karan Johar's film followed a magazine editor who discovers that her husband is gay after an interaction with an intern at her office.
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The film did not perform well at the box-office, but earned positive reviews from critics, with major praise for Karan Johar's segment earning him a nomination for the Queer Palm award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
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Karan Johar teamed up again with Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap, and Dibakar Banerjee for Lust Stories, an anthology film released on Netflix that served as a follow-up to Bombay Talkies.
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Rahman, it was supposed to be the second film directed by Karan Johar that was not written by himself.
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However, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the entire project was postponed, with Karan Johar stating that he would pick it up again in the future.
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On his 52nd birthday in 2024, Karan Johar announced that his next directorial, set to release in the second half of 2025.
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Karan Johar made his full-fledged acting debut alongside Ranbir Kapoor and Anushka Sharma in Anurag Kashyap's period drama Bombay Velvet, in which he played the main antagonist.
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Karan Johar has worked as a costume designer for Shah Rukh Khan on many films like, Dil To Pagal Hai, Duplicate, Mohabbatein, Main Hoon Na, Veer-Zaara, and Om Shanti Om.
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Karan Johar is an investor in an AI-led adtech influencer marketing platform Konfluence.
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Karan Johar had raised a pre-series funding of $4 million as of 8 February 2022.