'You are gay, right?' Karan Johar has the sassit rponse to troll on Threads - 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?

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

“This whole homophobia is so dishearteng and upsettg, ” says Johar.

KARAN JOHAR’S GAY REVOLUTN

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.

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

’ 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

IS KARAN JOHAR GAY? [QUTNS SOLVED]

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. 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.

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

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. 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?