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• KARAN JOHAR RPONDS IF HE'S GAY ON THREADS, SHAR HIS REGRET AND BOLLYWOOD CSH DURG AMA SSN
• WHY A BOLLYWOOD MEMOIR HAS KICKED UP A STORM ABOUT BEG GAY INDIA
• KARAN JOHAR TO INDIA TODAY: WANT TO MAKE A FILM ON GAY LOVE WH TWO BOLLYWOOD STARS AFTER TAKHT
• KARAN JOHAR REPLI TO ‘ARE YOU GAY’ QUTN ON THREADS, TALKS ABOUT ACTORS AND ‘AGILE EGOS’
• SAVAGE! KARAN JOHAR HAS AN EPIC RPONSE TO TROLL ASKG IF HE IS ‘GAY’ ON THREADS
• KARAN JOHAR REACTS AFTER NETIZEN ASKS HIM 'YOU ARE GAY, RIGHT?' ON THREADS. SEE HIS SAVAGE REPLY
• BOLLYWOOD FILMMAKER KARAN JOHAR’S AUTOBGRAPHY SPARKS DEBATE ABOUT BEG GAY INDIA
• KARAN JOHAR GIV A WTY RPONSE TO THREADS ER WHO ASKED, 'YOU ARE GAY, RIGHT?'

KARAN JOHAR RPONDS IF HE'S GAY ON THREADS, SHAR HIS REGRET AND BOLLYWOOD CSH DURG AMA SSN

In a landmark lg, India’s Supreme Court crimalised homosexualy on Thursday. But who are India’s gay celebri? Wh gay sex only jt beg legal, will take time for the big stars India’s celebry world to e out.

Here’s a list of India’s top lbian, gay, and bisexual stars.

WHY A BOLLYWOOD MEMOIR HAS KICKED UP A STORM ABOUT BEG GAY INDIA

Director and producer Karan Johar has never officially e out as gay. Decrimalisg homosexualy and abolishg #Sectn377 is a huge thumbs up for humany and equal rights! Award-wng filmmaker, edor and wrer Apurva Asrani, who is known workg on succsful films like Satya (1998), Shahid (2013) and CyLights (2014), is one of few openly gay men Indian cema.

He ntued: “There is much healg that needs to happen wh the gay muny.

“The largt qutn, I thk, before India is not jt terms of legalisg homosexualy bisexualy or the transgenr muny, is social acceptance…there’s a great difference between the two thgs. Karan Johar beg a gay or not has been somethg often talked about.

KARAN JOHAR TO INDIA TODAY: WANT TO MAKE A FILM ON GAY LOVE WH TWO BOLLYWOOD STARS AFTER TAKHT

The report, wh due permissn om Pengu India, also has Karan answerg the big qutn – Is he a gay? “This whole homophobia is so dishearteng and upsettg, ” says Johar. Karan Johar feels, ‘People talk nonsense, and if a man do not have an extramaral affair, he is supposed to be gay.

“I have never ever talked about my orientatn or sexualy bee whether I am heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, is my ncern. I have bee like the poster boy of homosexualy this untry.

’ I get this on a daily basis and I’ve learned to lgh off…One man me up to me once very ckily at Heathrow airport and said, ‘Is te that you are a homo?

KARAN JOHAR REPLI TO ‘ARE YOU GAY’ QUTN ON THREADS, TALKS ABOUT ACTORS AND ‘AGILE EGOS’

I’m sad, upset and disheartened wh the trollg that happens on social media… At the end of the day, this whole homophobia is so dishearteng and upsettg. Karan Johar rponds if he's gay on Threads, shar his regret and Bollywood csh durg AMA ssn Jul 08, 2023 11:39 PM IST Karan Johar replied to several qutns on Threads.

” Soon after he posted the note, one er wrote to him, “You are gay, right? Image source, AFPImage ptn, Karan Johar is one of Bollywood's most fluential directorsBollywood director and talk show host Karan Johar's tobgraphy has kicked off a loud bate on beg gay India, wr Sudha G Tilak. Which is why I Karan Johar will not say the three words that possibly everybody knows about me, " Johar says the tle of his memoir, An Unsuable Boy, is a play on A Suable Boy, the novel by award-wng Indian thor Vikram has publicly spoken up agast a dranian Indian law that crimalis homosexualy.

SAVAGE! KARAN JOHAR HAS AN EPIC RPONSE TO TROLL ASKG IF HE IS ‘GAY’ ON THREADS

However, Johar's memoir, -thored wh journalist Poonam Saxena, do not do Bollywood's buddg filmmakers, activists and Twterati have e down on him sayg he has only trivialised beg gay his films. Image source, APImage ptn, It has never been easy to be openly gay IndiaIn rponse to the cricism Johar wr, "The reason I don't say out aloud is simply that I don't want to be alg wh the FIRs [police plats]. 'Cowardly'In eply nservative India, homosexualy is a taboo and many people still regard same-sex relatnships as illegimate.

However that has not migated the outpourg of anger agast of his strongt crics is Apurva Asrani, a script wrer and edor of Aligarh, a gay rights Bollywood film based on te went on social media to cricise Johar's tobgraphy and his ristance to g out, sayg that he was "appalled". Image source, AFPImage ptn, The memoir talks about Johar's iendship wh Bollywood superstar Shah Rh KhanThe book also talks about Johar's well known iendship wh Bollywood superstar Shah Rh Khan and his spats wh Bollywood's leadg 's films have been set lotns Ameri or Bra alg wh the romantic issu of the rich and the films have been cricised for stereotypg women as Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and for peddlg have often poked fun of gay characters and have ed nuendos and jok while referencg gays his films.

'Courageo'His productn hoe may have backed many meangful films that have spoken about gay issu wh sensivy, but his own storytellg his movi and memoir is wantg, say crics. In addn to his films, Johar also hosts a hugely popular televisn chat show filled wh Bollywood's betiful people discsg their csh, urtg ntroversi, fuellg gossip and adult the show, Johar also allows gay jok, self-mockg throwaway l about his sexualy and nuendo which has irked crics for trivialisg his he also has his supporters.

KARAN JOHAR REACTS AFTER NETIZEN ASKS HIM 'YOU ARE GAY, RIGHT?' ON THREADS. SEE HIS SAVAGE REPLY

He has shared his vulnerabili and fears, " wrer and publisher Shobhaa De said of, one of the clevert and most fluential Bollywood directors, isn't givg the pleasure of sayg what everyone knows, gay rights on this story. I would love to make a homosexual love story and would want to st two leadg actors the film. After Takht, the filmmaker wants to brg stori om the LGBTQ muny to mastream asked if Karan Johar is ready to make a film like this for the Indian dience, he said, "I am ready to make a leg gay story, but I really hope the Indian dience is ready to accept .

BOLLYWOOD FILMMAKER KARAN JOHAR’S AUTOBGRAPHY SPARKS DEBATE ABOUT BEG GAY INDIA

Karan Johar repli to ‘are you gay’ qutn on Threads, talks about actors and ‘agile egos’. One person asked KJo, “You are gay, right? Tezz Buzz1349d10 shar Bollywood actors who are gay:- Johar Karan is most popular this list.

He never nfirmed , by his gture and behavr, is clear that he is gay.

KARAN JOHAR GIV A WTY RPONSE TO THREADS ER WHO ASKED, 'YOU ARE GAY, RIGHT?'

Ayhmann Khurrana, who plays a gay protagonist his latt Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan, recently joked a rad terview, “Let India rema regrsive. He now teams up wh his Badhaai Ho -stars Neena Gupta and Gajraj Rao along wh Bhumi Pednekar (they worked together the highly entertag Dum Laga Ke Haisha) for Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan the pre-release buzz to which suggts that this uld be the one ‘gay film’ Bollywood has been wag for. Sure, who wouldn’t want to see Khurrana steal hearts (the gay versn, if you will as SMZS’s trailer impli) the way Shah Rh Khan did when he pulled a sperately--love Kajol onto a chuggg tra DDLJ?

Yet, much as Khurrana has been breakg new grounds and nstantly refg ntent for morn Hdi film-goers, he is not the first Bollywood star to say a gay man on screen. If there is the wishy-washy Dostana on one hand that pops up popular imagatn thanks to ‘Maa da laadla’ that rced what means to be a gay uple to a stereotype, we also have Fire, I Am, Aligarh, Kapoor & Sons and the more recent, Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga wh Sonam Kapoor, Rajkummar Rao and Anil Kapoor throwg their weight behd a subject that was once an aberratn and still is, to a large extent — surprisg for a film dtry that pris self on s rich cultural diversy.

But the post-Sectn 377 era ( was stck down 2018, crimalisg homosexualy) wh a thrivg and vibrant gay life full of pri months, LGBTQ movements, gay datg apps, clive workspac, etc thgs may ultimately be headg towards a future that will clu the rabow. The recent spike Bollywood’s LGBTQ ntent is a small but a wele, ahead of Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan ( hs screens on Febary 21), we have piled a quick list of gay films you mt see if you haven’t already. Manoj Baayee shows his libre by takg on such an emotnally plex character — spired by a real-life gay teacher om Aligarh Mlim Universy who was forced to spensn after he was ught on mera havg sex — and givg his Profsor Siras the much-need digny and legimacy.