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Karan Johar says his friends were ‘horrified’ when he went bra shopping for his mother: ‘They wondered why I wasn’t asking a female friend to do this’

Karan Johar said that he has been raised by a progressive mother, and bra shopping was never a taboo topic for him.

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karan johar rocky aur rani ki prem kahani successKaran Johar recently directed Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani. (Photo: Varinder Chawla)
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Karan Johar’s Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani is receiving a lot from the audience, and at the film’s recent success meet in Mumbai, the film’s cast and director spoke at length about their experiences with each other. Karan, who has previously spoken about how Tota Roy Chowdhury’s character was deeply personal for him, shared that the scene in which Ranveer Singh’s Rocky goes lingerie shopping with his future mother-in-law, played by Churni Ganguly, is also inspired by a personal experience.

Karan said that he has bought lingerie for his mother, and while this wasn’t unusual for him, his friends were “horrified” when they found out. The director said that he was raised by a “very progressive mother,” and added that going lingerie shopping was “never a taboo topic.” He shared, “I’ve gone shopping for her (mother) to buy a bra and it’s never been a problem with me. But I do know that while I did it there were friends who were with me and were horrified that I was actually doing this and why I wasn’t designating this job to a female friend of mine. And I was like, why? It was asked by my mother, so why would I send somebody else to do it?”

Karan said that his mother is now 81, and when she needs something and he is around, he buys it for her. “It could be a bra, it could be any other item. For me, that scene felt organic, also because I knew there was discomfort around it. There’s a line where Churni says ‘sadiyon se aurtein mardo ke chaddiyan ghis rahi hai, aur tum ek bra ko nahi touch kar sakte?’. That, too, was a very definitive of what people feel about it,” he said.

After Ranveer and Churni’s scene at the lingerie shop, Ranveer’s Rocky is realises that he shouldn’t be treating a piece of clothing like it’s toxic material.

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