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’.