Karan Johar calls Shah Rukh Khan’s character from ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ a hypocrite: ‘He fell for the hot girl’
Karan Johar‘s first film as a director, ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai‘ is cult today even after 27 years of its release. From its songs, to the characters and the dialogues, the film remains in the hearts of the people. However, most people who have seen the film do not find certain things shown in it, appropriate today. Many also feel sad about the fact that Anjali ended up choosing Rahul over Aman. Well, it’s not just the audience who feels so, but Karan himself feels cringe looking at some things in the film and wonders, ‘What was I thinking?’
In a recent interview, the film-maker reflected upon the problems in ‘KKHH’. He said during a podcast, “I just wanted to make a very big hit. I was 24 years old when I wrote Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, and as a producer’s son, I grew up understanding box office business and how our country has a varied audience.”
The producer-director said that his main motivation to make the film was to restore his father’s production house and prestige. “My father was a very loved man, but he was also a producer who had made a series of unsuccessful films—five back-to-back failures. I just wanted to make a big, monstrous hit for my dad.. I wasn’t thinking of contributing to society or to make a film that would make a difference, or a politically correct thing that would be impressionable. And I wanted to do this not for material reason but for prestige reason and my father to get his moral back.”
He further looked at ‘KKHH’ in retrospect and reflected on the problematic elements of the movie. “When I look back at my first film, I’m very proud of all the love it has received, but I also question the gender politics, some of the dialogues, and the cringe moments. When I see them now, I think, ‘What was I thinking?’ I was young and new to cinema. I am allowed to make my mistakes,” he said.
Johar also called Shah Rukh Khan‘s character Rahul a hypocrite. “That character came from me because I was writing the dialogues. He fell for the hot girl, and then when the girl he didn’t like became hot, he fell in love with her. Was he just chasing surface-level good looks? That was all my writing. I didn’t realize at the time that I was feeding a certain school of thought. I just wanted to make a blockbuster,” he confessed.
KKHH starred SRK, Kajol, Rani Mukerji in lead roles. For those not in the know, actresses like Twinkle Khanna had rejected the role of Tina, before Rani stepped in.
