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Waiting for ‘bolder than before’ Karan Johar to shed his sexless personality

411 views · Published 25 October 2018 · 2:25 · Indexed 21 October 2026

Channel: ThePrint · 2018 · News & Politics

Karan Johar is getting “bolder than before”. Or at least his radio show claims to be, in its second season.

“You have to be bolder than before, come on guys,” exhorts Karan Johar in his new RJ avatar. “In Calling Karan Season 2, I am not playing it safe,” he tells the media.

That’s ironic because Karan Johar’s USP has always been about playing it safe. He does not push the envelope as much as paint it in Dharma Productions technicolour and then nudge it. One could say that’s his brilliance, the secret of his success. He is more “subversive than his critics admit” writes Aatish Taseer, saying his “popcorn, bubble gum and frivolity” is “only a way to conceal something tart and acid and provocative”, something otherwise unpalatable to a largely conservative country.

Perhaps so. But in 2018, one feels rather sad to see Karan Johar still doing the dance of the seven veils when it comes to his own life. The country around him is moving on. Even corporations are looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Uber maps its route in rainbow colours after the 377 verdict. Swiggy serves up a rainbow burger. But Karan Johar’s popcorn and chewing gum bubble has become a candy-coloured straitjacket.

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Waiting for ‘bolder than before’ Karan Johar to shed his sexless personality

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