Karan Johar (Director)

Karan Johar was born on May 25th 1972 in Mumbai to the famous Film Producer Yash Johar and his wife Hiroo Johar. Karan proved very lucky for his father who after Karan’s birth launched his own banner called Dharma Productions. Karan attended Greenlawns High School in Breach Candy, Mumbai and later attended HR College in Churchgate, Mumbai.
After graduating from college, he joined Aditya Chopra as an assistant director for ‘Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge’. Karan even did a small role Shahrukh’s friend in the movie. During the making of the movie, Shahrukh became Karan’s close pal and he promised to act in his debut project. Karan wrote the script and screenplay for his first movie ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ and casted his two favorites- Shahrukh and Kajol- in the movie which became a superhit. Karan has also designed costumes for Shahrukh for ‘Dil To Pagal Hai’, ‘Duplicate’, ‘Mohaabtien’, ‘Main Hoon Na’ and ‘Veer Zaara’.
Karan Johar’s second directorial venture was ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham’ also famous as ‘K3G’, which marked the coming back of Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan on-screen after 20 years. ‘K3G’ tagline- ‘It’s all about loving your parents’ was appreciated by the audiences and the movie was declared a hit as well. In 2004, Karan Johar started a chat show on Star World channel called ‘Koffee with Karan’ in which he interviewed top league celebrities with a debut show with his favorite pair Shahrukh-n-Kajol.
Karan firmly believes in the magic of ‘K’ and all his productions start with that alphabet. In 2003, Karan turned into a Producer and co-produced with his Dad another blockbuster ‘Kal Ho Na Ho’.
After a span of five years, Karan wrote ‘Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna’ AKA ‘KANK’ in which he wanted to cast Kajol, but she refused to do the movie hence; he opted for Rani Mukherjee. Karan also promoted the movie with Preity Zinta at the Cannes Film Festival. ‘KANK’ released on August 11th 2006 and the movie did generate some controversy as the gist of the movie was “What if you meet your soul mate after marriage?” a bold topic for the audiences, which was not well received in a traditional Indian society. ‘KANK’ however, managed to grab a lot of attention overseas and became a superhit; the movie featured in the Toronto Film Festival as well. Karan Johar has had the honor to judge Miss World 2006 Pageant in Poland.
Karan Johar is also appointed as the brand Ambassador for ‘Hewlett & Packard’.

Into the Wild (Movie)

By Jon Krakauer

James Gallien had driven five miles out of Fairbanks when he spotted the hitchhiker standing in the snow beside the road, thumb raised high, shivering in the gray Alaskan dawn. A rifle protruded from the young man's pack, but he looked friendly enough; a hitchhiker with a Remington semiautomatic isn't the sort of thing that gives motorists pause in the 49th state. Gallien steered his four-by-four onto the shoulder and told him to climb in.

The hitchhiker introduced himself as Alex. "Alex?" Gallien responded, fishing for a last name.

"Just Alex," the young man replied, pointedly rejecting the bait. He explained that he wanted a ride as far as the edge of Denali National Park, where he intended to walk deep into the bush and "live off the land for a few months." Alex's backpack appeared to weigh only 25 or 30 pounds, which struck Gallien, an accomplished outdoorsman, as an improbably light load for a three-month sojourn in the backcountry, especially so early in the spring. Immediately Gallien began to wonder if he'd picked up one of those crackpots from the Lower 48 who come north to live out their ill-considered Jack London fantasies. Alaska has long been a magnet for unbalanced souls, often outfitted with little more than innocence and desire, who hope to find their footing in the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier. The bush, however, is a harsh place and cares nothing for hope or longing. More than a few such dreamers have met predictably unpleasant ends.

As they got to talking during the three-hour drive, though, Alex didn't strike Gallien as your typical misfit. He was congenial, seemed well educated, and peppered Gallien with sensible questions about "what kind of small game lived in the country, what kind of berries he could eat, that kind of thing.

" Still, Gallien was concerned: Alex's gear seemed excessively slight for the rugged conditions of the interior bush, which in April still lay buried under the winter snowpack. He admitted that the only food in his pack was a ten-pound bag of rice. He had no compass; the only navigational aid in his possession was a tattered road map he'd scrounged at a gas station, and when they arrived where Alex asked to be dropped off, he left the map in Gallien's truck, along with his watch, his comb, and all his money, which amounted to 85 cents. "I don't want to know what time it is," Alex declared cheerfully. "I don't want to know what day it is, or where I am. None of that matters.

" During the drive south toward the mountains, Gallien had tried repeatedly to dissuade Alex from his plan, to no avail. He even offered to drive Alex all the way to Anchorage so he could at least buy the kid some decent gear. "No, thanks anyway," Alex replied. "I'll be fine with what I've got." When Gallien asked whether his parents or some friend knew what he was up to—anyone who could sound the alarm if he got into trouble and was overdue—Alex answered calmly that, no, nobody knew of his plans, that in fact he hadn't spoken to his family in nearly three years. "I'm absolutely positive," he assured Gallien, "I won't run into anything I can't deal with on my own."

"There was just no talking the guy out of it," Gallien recalls. "He was determined. He couldn't wait to head out there and get started." So Gallien drove Alex to the head of the Stampede Trail, an old mining track that begins ten miles west of the town of Healy, convinced him to accept a tuna melt and a pair of rubber boots to keep his feet dry, and wished him good luck. Alex pulled a camera from his backpack and asked Gallien to snap a picture of him. Then, smiling broadly, he disappeared down the snow-covered trail. The date was Tuesday, April 28, 1992.

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