‘Ibrahim Ali Khan, Khushi Kapoor also have hearts, they are not supposed to feel anything?’: Karan Johar says Nadaaniyaan got so much hate as ‘I produced it’

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He continued his criticism and talked about how Dharma has produced content across the genre spectrum and how people don’t talk about it. “This bothers me, and I am going to say it as it is. People are judging me because you don’t like a certain aspect of my personality. Nobody will talk about the fact that we have addressed important issues and sensitive themes in our cinema. One Nadaaniyan, and people will attack me; the same person will make 5 different videos criticising me, and I feel like there are people taking joy in just hating the film and saying certain stuff about me.”

Just like many other in the industry, the director then extended his sympathies to Ibrahim, Khushi and Nadaaniyan’s director Shauna Gautam and said that they received unnecessary flack just because of their association with him. Karan argued that there have been movies like The Kissing Booth (2018), which “wasn’t any great piece of art”, but it still did huge numbers, and people criticised it once and then moved on. He said, “Hating on Nadaaniyan became a trend for everyone. People are loving nepo bashing, and more than anything I felt bad about Ibrahim, Khushi and Shauna, and apparently I am not even supposed to feel or say that. It’s like just because they come from privilege, they aren’t supposed to feel anything. They also have fragile hearts and emotions, and people keep hating on them because I produced this movie. I attract this kind of negativity, and I don’t think I am going to stop doing what I am doing,” added Karan.

After facing a mountain of backlash for Nadaaniyan, Dharma and Karan finally got some good news when Homebound, starring Ishaan Khatter, was selected for the Cannes festival this year. Apart from Dharma, the great director Martin Scorsese is also on board as a producer.