Happy Birthday Karan Johar: The most popular and accomplished filmmaker of Bollywood, Karan Johar celebrates his 48th birthday on May 25.
A close friend of Shahrukh Khan, he assisted Yash Chopra’s Yash Raj Films during the early days of his career, making his directorial debut with the mega-hit Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998). He also has a popular chat show named Koffee with Karan (2004). The success of “KKHH” made him one of the most high-profile directors in the Hindi-language Mumbai Film industry, popularly known as Bollywood.
Also a close friend of Aditya Chopra, he has been a creative member of Yash Raj productions such as Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), Veer-Zaara (2004), Dil To Pagal Hai (1997), and Mohabbatein (2000).
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Johar’s success has guaranteed him worldwide distribution of his production company, Dharma Productions, for many years to come.
Amid lockdown, this filmmaker is proactive on social media has been on a spree of sharing cute videos of his kids Yash and Roohi.
On his birthday, we decided to list down some unknown facts about Karan Johar aka KJO:
- Karan holds a Masters degree in French.
- Most of his movies, began with ‘K’ as he believed in numerology. But he stopped the practice after he saw ‘Lage Raho Munnabhai‘ which talked about it.
- The idea for “Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna,” came when he saw the movie “Before Sunset,” during his trip to London.
- He is the first Indian filmmaker to be a Jury Member in the Miss World Competition, held in Poland on September 30, 2006.
- For his role in “Bombay Velvet“, he charged only 11 Rupee as his fee.
- Johar was one of the world’s best “250 Global Young Leaders,” chosen by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum, in the year 2007.
- His second blockbuster, “Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham…” was the first Indian movie to have a ‘making-of’ book written.
- The script of his movie “Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna,” was invited to be included in the library of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- He wrote the entire film script of “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil,” in just 30 days.
- He is also the only Indian apart from former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to have been invited for the opening ceremony of the London Olympics.
