A happy marriage in the industry would jolt me: Karan Johar

Mumbai, March 18 On March 5, Karan Johar announced to the world that he has become the father of two twins, Yash and Roohi. The children were born via surrogacy and both of them were named after Karan’s own parents, with Roohi being an anagram of his mother’s name, Hiroo.
The Ae Dil Hai Mushkil director had some choice words to say about parenthood at the India Today Conclave 2017 in Mumbai.
When asked who would be his choice as the mother of his children, Karan replied, “I am the mother of my children.” A while later, he said, “I am more of a mother than I am a father.”
Adding on his perspective on parentage, Karan Johar said that he wouldn’t want to impose Bollywood or filmmaking on his children just like his parents were supportive of his decision to be a filmmaker even though he was warned about joining the industry.
“My need to have children comes from my sense of nurturing. I wanted to channelise the love within me,” Karan added.
Karan went on to say that the first day he saw Yash and Roohi, they were premature; they were supposed to be born in first week of April but they were delivered in February. When he later saw them, he wept.
“I didn’t even realise that tears were rolling down my face because I just could not believe that there were two pieces of me staring at me, vulnerable, innocent and all piped and tubed up,” Karan Johar said.
Highlights from Karan Johar’s Koffee With Karan On The Couch segment:
“No happy marriages in Bollywood”
When asked about the one fact from Bollywood that would jolt him, Karan Johar said, “A happy marriage.”
“If you are happily married, you don’t exist,” said Karan Johar.
“Delusion is the biggest plague in Bollywood”
Karan Johar said that according to him, delusion is the biggest plague in Bollywood.
“Aspiration is fantastic but delusion is not. Sensitivity runs very high in my industry so I lie because everyone is easy to offend,” Karan Johar said.
“I like being trolled”
Speaking about trolled, insulted and abused on social media, Karan Johar said that he is a complete sadist and that he likes to hear abuses.
“It started with anger, went on to indifference, and now I look forward to them,” Karan Johar said about his reaction to abuses.
“Hate, not love, transcends everything”
When asked if it is love that transcends everything, Karan Johar said, “No, these days, actually hate transcends everything.”
“There is a reality check that you have to account for. Love has to be substituted with pragmatism and the order of the day,” Karan Johar said.
Three tips for the brokenhearted from Karan Johar:
Karan Johar had this to say about how to mend broken hearts at India Today Conclave 2017
1. Self-pity is a spa. It feels great to wallow in self-pity for a few days but you have to get out of it eventually.
2. Involve yourself in work. Make work your ambition, not your love life.
3. Go out there and have some fun.
“Ranbir Kapoor would play me in my biopic”
Karan Johar said that if his biopic were to be made, Ranbir Kapoor would play him, Juhi Chawla would play his mother Hiroo and Rishi Kapoor would play his father, the late Yash Johar.
However, he declined to answer who would play his two lovers, the ones he has often mentioned and also wrote about in his book, An Unsuitable Boy.
“I’d be rich and single than be poor and have true love”
When asked whether he would be rich and single or be poor and have true love, Karan Johar chose the former because “true love fades after a while and lust takes over.”
On Kangana Ranaut’s statements on Koffee With Karan:
Karan Johar happily accepted that he is the flag-bearer of nepotism and that is the movie mafia, like Kangana Ranaut accused him of being on the sets of Koffee With Karan.
However, he also added that he did not understand what Kangana Ranaut meant when she said that their individual ideas of poverty are different.
“I have hemorrhoids”
Karan Johar said that he has hemorrhoids and turns out that it is one of the reasons why he always wears black.
“I would marry Shah Rukh Khan”
When given a choice to love, marry and hook up with one of the following: Shah Rukh, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Sidharth Malhotra, he said he would marry Shah Rukh Khan because he loves his bungalow.
However, he chose to kill both Aishwarya and Sidharth because in his own words, “I don’t want to answer this question.”
On the work front, Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions has so far released OK Jaanu, the Hindi version of The Ghazi Attack and Badrinath Ki Dulhania in 2017. The company will distribute the Hindi version of Baahubali: The Conclusion and currently under production are a remake of Yash Chopra’s 1969 film Ittefaq, a remake of the Hollywood film Drive and Ayan Mukerji’s Dragon.