Karan Johar hosts AMA ssn on Threads; rponds if he is gay, reveals his regret

Contents:

• KARAN JOHAR ON BEG GAY: EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT MY SEXUAL ORIENTATN IS
• WHY A BOLLYWOOD MEMOIR HAS KICKED UP A STORM ABOUT BEG GAY INDIA
• KARAN JOHAR RPONDS IF HE'S GAY ON THREADS, SHAR HIS REGRET AND BOLLYWOOD CSH DURG AMA SSN
• KARAN JOHAR REPLI TO ‘ARE YOU GAY’ QUTN ON THREADS, TALKS ABOUT ACTORS AND ‘AGILE EGOS’
• THE REAL TTH BEHD KARAN JOHAR GAY OR NOT?
• KARAN JOHAR HOSTS AMA SSN ON THREADS; RPONDS IF HE IS GAY, REVEALS HIS REGRET
• KARAN JOHAR GIV A WTY RPONSE TO THREADS ER WHO ASKED, 'YOU ARE GAY, RIGHT?'
• KARAN JOHAR GIV A WTY RPONSE TO THREADS ER WHO ASKED, 'YOU ARE GAY, RIGHT?'
• 'YOU ARE GAY, RIGHT?' KARAN JOHAR HAS THE SASSIT RPONSE TO TROLL ON THREADS
• KARAN JOHAR’S GAY REVOLUTN
• KARAN JOHAR REACTS AFTER NETIZEN ASKS HIM 'YOU ARE GAY, RIGHT?' ON THREADS. SEE HIS SAVAGE REPLY

KARAN JOHAR ON BEG GAY: EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT MY SEXUAL ORIENTATN IS

Karan Johar beg a gay or not has been somethg often talked about. 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.

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

“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?

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. "The filmmaker also opened up about the homophobia and the daily abe he fac on social media.

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

He wrote, "I have bee like the poster boy of homosexualy this untry. 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’

16, Banerjee/Getty Imag for Paramount PicturNEW DELHI — The most ubiquo man Bollywood is unr tremendo prsure to utter three simple words: “I am gay. ”If the three words have acquired the force of absolutn, is bee Karan Johar is by the most famo Indian ever to almost be openly gay. He has done more than anybody to troduce the ia of homosexualy to the Indian home.

Johar’s se so much of a piece wh this particular moment India is that while he has been circumspect on his sexual orientatn, he has, both his life and his work, been breathtakgly explic about sex: In 2013, he gave the Indian screen a smolrg gay kiss “Bombay Talki”; two years later, as roast master a ic event that lns saw on YouTube, he joked before a live dience, wh his mother prent, of beg the recipient of anal sex; his new book, that same cur mixture of reticence and ndor pervas.

THE REAL TTH BEHD KARAN JOHAR GAY OR NOT?

India right now is the grip of a strange schizophrenia when to gay eedom. The gay datg apps are teemg wh activy. Johar’s gay kiss h movie screens across India, the Supreme Court restated Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co, which plac homosexualy, alongsi btialy, as “agast the orr of nature.

”What the lg practice has e to mean is that gay sex for the most part is permted — the thori turn a bld eye — but is crimalized on the books, which means of urse that marriage, or even any social or legal acknowledgment of same-sex love, is a distant dream.

KARAN JOHAR HOSTS AMA SSN ON THREADS; RPONDS IF HE IS GAY, REVEALS HIS REGRET

This has created a society where gay eedoms — which n mean Grdr on one end, and the right to marriage on the other — are rced to rnal pleasure.

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

They acce him of rcg gay characters to effemate parodi. Apurva Asrani, the script wrer of “Aligarh, ” an affectg film about a gay profsor a Mlim universy town, wrote The Wire: “Sadly Karan’s public image reeks of the very same gay stereotypg that Bollywood famoly propagat — the trated sexual predator, the ic relief, the closeted ‘butt of all jok. He has troduced the ia of homosexualy by stealth to the Indian home.

He was a long way om “Dostana” (“Bromance”), his 2008 romantic edy which two men — both major stars — pretend to be gay so that they n rent an apartment wh a pretty Indian girl abroad. Last year, he produced “Kapoor & Sons, ” a film about the goln boy of a middle-class Indian fay livg a secret gay life abroad who eventually out to his distrght major actor was willg to play the role. Johar told me over lunch New York, “and they all said that if the character is gay the end, then no.

One wants him not merely to be brave, but happy — and, needls to say, gay. 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.

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

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.

'YOU ARE GAY, RIGHT?' KARAN JOHAR HAS THE SASSIT RPONSE TO TROLL ON THREADS

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.

KARAN JOHAR’S GAY REVOLUTN

'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. 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?

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