Karan Johar had as soon as confessed that he had nearly ‘ruined’ Anushka Sharma’s profession after he requested Aditya Chopra to not signal her for Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. Karan reportedly wished Sonam Kapoor within the movie and had reluctantly watched Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. He nonetheless, was impressed on seeing her in Band Baaja Baaraat and considered apologising to her. Also learn: Priyanka Chopra, Nick Jonas hug Karan Johar at NMACC occasion days after her interview about being bullied in Bollywood
Anushka Sharma made her profitable debut with the 2008 movie, starring reverse Shah Rukh Khan. The movie was directed by Aditya Chopra and was a brilliant hit on the field workplace.
During the 18th MAMI Mumbai Film Festival in 2016, Karan had accompanied the lead actors of his movie Ae Dil Hai Mushkil Anushka Sharma and Aishwarya Rai for an on-stage interplay with Rajeev Masand and Anupama Chopra. Talking about Anushka, Karan had stated, “I totally wanted to, completely murder Anushka Sharma’s career. Because when Aditya Chopra showed me her image, I was like, ‘no, no, mad or what, you signing her, you crazy! There is no need for you to sign this Anushka Sharma’. There was another lead actress at that time who I wanted Adi to sign and I was totally behind the scene sabotaging her completely. The movie also I was reluctantly watching Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi.”
Adding how her efficiency in one other movie modified his notion about her, he went on so as to add, “But when I saw Band Baaja Baaraat, I called her and I felt like I owed her an apology and a compliment. Apology because I felt so embarrassed that I would have actually ruined the graph of an exceptional talent and secondly, a compliment because I thought she was amazing.”
As a video from the 2016 occasion was shared on Reddit not too long ago, not many have been happy with Karan’s assertion. A Reddit person reacted, “Wow. He himself is admitting that he kept trying to sabotage her career.” Another stated, “Just completely loving how he is openly accepting how capable he is to murder/ sabotage anyone’s career and able to replace the cast and change their career graphs as he wants!!” One extra commented, “It’s gross how he can so comfortably admit to doing this stuff and nobody bats an eye. I feel as though this info getting out about someone in Hollywood would be hugely damaging to their career. But the power dynamic in Bollywood means that he won’t feel any of the backlash from straight up admitting to this. Ew.”
“If he’s openly admitting this about Anushka Sharma imagine how many other talented actors career he’s sabotaged, we’ll never know coz some of them might’ve never gotten the chance to even debut,” learn a remark. An individual additionally identified, “Watch Anushka’s face change when she relives the memories of ‘behind the scene’ sabotage to her career… KJo and gang think they’re know it all in terms of who’s and what’s gonna work in showbiz…. the audacity!!”
Source: www.hindustantimes.com