Kangana Ranaut and controversies is a match made in heaven! The three-time National Award winner actress often gets surrounded with one or the other fiascos. Just a week ago, Shekhar Suman and his son, Adhyayen went on a Twitter rant against her and now itâs Karan Johar who had to say something about her. In a recent episode of âKoffee With Karanâ, Kangana spoke her mind and called Karan a âmovie mafiaâ and âflag bearer of nepotismâ. While Karan let the actress speak then, he later told the world how he actually felt on a Twitter AMA session.
And now, in a recent interview, Karan Johar opens up about what Kangana had to say about him on the show. He said that everyone listened to Kanganaâs remarks only because he gave a platform to her.
Not only Bollywood, but also the whole of India was taken by surprise when Kangana Ranaut called Karan Johar, the âflag bearer of nepotismâ on Joharâs chat show, Koffee With Karan season 5. Everybody has been wondering why Karan Johar, who generally speaks his mind, did not react to such serious allegations.
However, it seems Karan Johar has finally spoken about this issue in an interview taken by Anupama Chopra at the London School of Economics. Hereâs what he said,
âShe was my guest and I had to hear what she said. She has the right to have an opinion but when she says âflag bearer of nepotismâ, what I want to say is I donât think she has understood the entirety of that statement because what is nepotism? Am I working with my son, daughter or nephew? What about those 15 filmmakers who are not from the film industry? No one will talk about Tarun Mansukhani, Shakun Batra, Shashank Khaitan or a Punit Malhotra, who is a costume designerâs nephew, who came from no film background. You give these people a film career and I think that is the reverse of nepotism but that of course one would not get credit for. As far as actors are concerned, I have launched just two of them i.e. Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhawan. Sidharth Malhotra was just 1/3rd of them and had nothing to do with the movies. So I really didnât get what she meant (sic).â
Then, Karan called out Kangana for playing the victim card and even advised her to leave the industry.
He also went ahead and spoke a bit about how Kangana should leave the industry if she continuously feels victimised, by saying,
“What does she mean by âmovie mafiaâ? What does she think we are doing? Sitting here and not giving her work? Is that what makes us mafia? We do that by our choice. I do that because may be I am not interested to work with Kangana and that does not make me movie mafia, it makes me a man with an opinion. I appreciate that she had a great perspective and everyone lauded her for coming on my show. People said âshe gave it off to Karanâ and I would say of course, but I was gracious enough to keep everything. I cut none of it and I do edit so much of stuff from the show. I was like let the world see her opinion. I gave her the platform to speak and now this is my platform so here I am speaking what I want to. I want to conclude by saying I am done with Kangana playing the woman card and the victim card. You canât be a victim at every point of time who has a sad story to say as to how you have been terrorised by the bad world of industry. If thatâs the case, leave it (sic).”
Watch him speak in the videos below :
https://twitter.com/iamnehabhatt/status/838396985187106819
https://twitter.com/iamnehabhatt/status/838444879671881730
Looks like Karan Johar wonât be providing a platform to Kangana Ranaut anymore!
