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Karan Johar has famously shared a strong friendship with actors Kajol and Kareena Kapoor for many years now but the director was also quite open about the fact that their friendship saw a low phase when they stopped speaking with each other. In the latest episode of Koffee with Karan, the director shared how they got past their differences and patched up. In Kareena’s case, Karan and her had their differences when she chose to star in Main Prem Ki Deewani Hoon over Kal Ho Naa ho and this upset him.
Karan shared that they did not “speak for a year and a half and it was over a film, it was over Kal Ho Naa Ho.” He shared that after his father Yash Johar got diagnosed with cancer, Kareena called him. “It was only when my father was diagnosed with cancer that actually she called me. She was silent, I was silent. She was like ‘I don’t know what to say’. I said ‘Don’t say anything, I know you are there’.” He added that after his father passed away, Kareena came to see him and they were back where they had left things off. “When he passed away, she was in Bangkok and we hadn’t still met. The day she landed from her shoot, she came home and we spent all night chatting and we went back to where we were.” Karan added that when they fought “I said I’m never going to speak with her again.”
Karan and Kareena had spoken about the fight back in the first season of Koffee with Karan in 2004 and discussed how her refusal to do Kal Ho Naa Ho had actually hurt him.
Karan also opened up about his friendship with Kajol and their fallout, which he had discussed even in his 2016 memoir, An Unsuitable Boy. During the episode, Karan said that they have always shared an “emotional bond” and when they fought, “we felt we would never be together.” It was only after the birth of Karan’s twins Yash and Roohi in 2017 that Karan reached out to Kajol and she reciprocated.
“I remember messaging Kajol when my babies were born and I hadn’t spoken to her for 2 years and I sent her images of Yash and Roohi. I said ‘You don’t need to reply but this is what my children look like – Yash and Roohi. And she messaged back and said ‘I’m just full of love right now’. A month later, she messaged ‘It’s my birthday but you don’t need to come’ but I went and we hugged, we cried, it was done,” he shared.
Kajol and Karan had a falling out after his film Ae Dil Hai Mushkil clashed against her husband Ajay Devgn’s film Shivaay. In his autobiography, Karan had written about his fallout with Kajol and shared, “I wouldn’t like to give a piece of myself to her at all because she’s killed every bit of emotion I had for her for twenty-five years. I don’t think she deserves me. I feel nothing for her anymore.”
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