Karan Johar on beg gay: Everybody knows what my sexual orientatn is - India Today

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’S GAY REVOLUTN
• KARAN JOHAR REPLI TO ‘ARE YOU GAY’ QUTN ON THREADS, TALKS ABOUT ACTORS AND ‘AGILE EGOS’
• 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
• IS KARAN JOHAR GAY? [QUTNS SOLVED]
• BOLLYWOOD FILMMAKER KARAN JOHAR’S AUTOBGRAPHY SPARKS DEBATE ABOUT BEG GAY INDIA

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. “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.

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

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

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.

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.

KARAN JOHAR’S GAY REVOLUTN

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.

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

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

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. Homosexualy. The filmmaker may have taken a realistic turn wh homosexualy Bombay Talki, but he serv cred even for silly gay portrayals mercial films like Dostana.

About six months ago, after the release of Stunt of the Year, gay activist Ashley Tellis wrote a sthg opn piece DNA newspaper unr the headle ‘Shame on You, Karan Johar’. In the movie directed by Johar, Rishi Kapoor plays the gay prcipal of a school where the story is set.

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

He also wrote that Johar ‘trots out scene after scene of homophobia (the hero of Stunt of the Year keep askg each other if they are gay, and hug only once the spectre is dispelled) every film of his; homosexualy hnts every send scene of the sh he has been dishg out to for years—but only as joke. Why sgle out the homosexual for not beg te to character?

In Bombay Talki, Johar do not have to look at the box office, and you n make a fairer asssment of his pictn of gays. This is retaliatn for his father thrashg him bee he is gay.

She v him home for dner and he sens that her hband, played by Ranep Hooda, is a homosexual nial. His characters—the out-of-closet gay wearg his sexualy on his sleeve and the man nial—are relatively plex and real. For the origs of Johar’s attempts to troduce homosexual relatnships to the mastream, you would have to go back to Kal Ho Naa Ho, which he produced 2003.

IS KARAN JOHAR GAY? [QUTNS SOLVED]

There is no gay character the movie, but the maid Kantabai fds Shah Rh Khan and Saif Ali Khan postur that shock her to thkg they are havg off. Abhishek Bachchan and John Abraham are not gay but pretend to be partners.

Stunt of the Year has an overtly gay character. In an terview to The Tim of India 2008, gay activist Ashok Row Kavi said that what Dostana did was brg to “notice gays as a ncept the Indian fay… the heterosexual fay has been engaged alg wh the issue of gays”.

Dostana, fact, did somethg extraordary— brought to mon age a term for a gay relatnship India.

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

That is also a valid way of lookg at Johar’s pictn of homosexualy his mastream movi. Johar’s shallow pictn of gays has probably done more to change the way India’s sexual majory looks at them than real portrayals.

Karan Johar repli to ‘are you gay’ qutn on Threads, talks about actors and ‘agile egos’.

One person asked KJo, “You are gay, right? One person asked Karan, "You are gay, right?