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Yuvaa co-founder Nikhil Taneja is all set to host a chat show Be a Man, Yaar which will feature some of the biggest names from the entertainment industry. As per the team, it’s a first-of-its-kind chat show on positive masculinity and will have celebrities like Karan Johar, Vicky Kaushal, Nakuul Mehta, Naseeruddin Shah, and Zakir Khan, among others opening up about the ‘lesser spoken’ side of being a man.
On Tuesday, the trailer of the show was released, giving a glimpse of the engaging conversation that awaits the audience. In the trailer, Taneja quizzes Vicky on how he asked Katrina Kaif out, given she’s an icon of Indian cinema and a bigger star than him. In another clip, the actor, whose latest film Bhajan Kumar, is set to be announced later today, admits that his goal in life is to see his wife smile.
Karan Johar, on the other hand, opens up about how he was called ‘pansy’ in school, which left an indelible mark on his mental health. He also laughingly confesses how he pretended to be in love with a girl named Shalaka when he was in the 10th standard.
In the trailer, while Zakir Khan opens up about how men do cry but have no space to do so, Naseeruddin Shah says he feels lucky not to be born as a girl in this society. The legendary actor also shares his thoughts on how ‘hypermasculinity’ is being pushed in today’s time.
Social media creators Govind Kaushal and Vishnu Kaushal also talk about how financial troubles can really have an everlasting effect on young minds. Nakuul Mehta also speaks about how he felt like a failure in life because he couldn’t open up about his emotions.
At the Indian Express Adda, Karan Johar recounted experiences of being called ‘pansy’, a slang word for an effeminate man, in the 1980s. “I was raised by progressive parents (producer Yash Johar and Hiroo Johar). They gave me the freedom to be who I was. I was an effeminate child, different from kids in my class or my neighbourhood,” he said.
Karan Johar found it difficult to handle it when the term “pansy” was “thrown” at him. This film, he said, is a form of his rebellion. “There is a latent anger that you build with what has happened in the last couple of years and then you have a way of saying that ‘nothing else matters but your individuality’,” the filmmaker said.
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