From regretting not having a partner in his life to his highly-discussed 50th birthday bash, Karan Johar has opened up about several big things in a new interview. The filmmaker-producer has gone all out and talked about his kids Yash-Roohi's big surprise for him, the much-anticipated new season of Koffee With Karan and more. 

VOID OF A LIFE PARTNER

Karan, who welcomed twins Yash Johar and Roohi Johar through surrogacy in 2015, said that he also wished he had taken that decision five years earlier instead. He said that he believes parents or children cannot fulfill the void of a life partner. Asked about his regrets, Karan told, "I wish I'd focused on my personal life a little more. I don't think I have done that. As a parent, I feel very fulfilled today. And thank God I took that step, and I think I took that step five years too late. I wish I had done that even earlier. But I feel that in all this relationship building, producer building, studio building, I let myself take a back seat in my personal life." The filmmaker added, "The bigger regret I have is that I didn't give that part of my life the importance that I think that it deserved at a certain point in time and now, I think it might be too late. I think it's perhaps too late for me to now find a life partner, and go to the mountains for a quiet holiday with or kind of have someone hold my hand at times. I think what a life partner does for you-- a parent, a child, can never fulfill that aspect. I think that is reserved for your soulmate, your life partner, your relationship, or romance, or whatever it might be... I don't have that. That's a vacant spot in my life and that's my deepest regret."

KJO's GRAND 50TH BIRTHDAY BASH BEING CALLED A 'COVID HOTSPOT'

From Shah Rukh Khan to Ranveer Singh, generations of stars gathered under one roof and danced the night away at KJo's grand 50th birthday bash. But later, when a fresh surge in Covid-19 cases started to hit the country, Johar’s party was predictably termed as a ‘super-spreader event.’ “Now look, not to get technical about it but we don’t know who contracted it when because there was a lot happening that week. Even in the movie industry. There was not the party, there were weddings, there were events, there were shoots, why blame me? Everything, why does it come down to me? I don’t mean to sound like a victim but I do feel marginally victimized. I’m like I have nothing to do with this pandemic, I just want to put it out there. It’s not me. I have no connection with the beginning and the origin of this pandemic. I just want to put it out there so why people wrote what they did, how many people contracted it, did it happen at my party, I’m not saying it, I don’t know,” Karan told.

RANVEER SINGH TURNED DJ AT THE PARTY

Later, Karan also opened up about the details of the party, and said that his grand bash was celebrated in the Yash Raj studios, as initially suggested by Aditya Chopra, and that Bollywood star Ranveer Singh was in the in-charge of the music department along with DJ Ganesh.  “In my head it was a big deal (turning 50). A part of me was traumatised also, and a part of me wanted to celebrate it. And anything I know about the movies is from Yash Raj studios, from Yash (Chopra) uncle and from Adi (Aditya Chopra), so it had to be celebrated at that studio. Everyone became involved, Apoorva my CEO, and one of my producers, everyone suddenly became involved in it. I was like ‘it has to have a set, there has to be chandeliers, it has to be over the top, everything I am all about,’ I was so excited. People were looking like chandeliers, there were chandeliers, I was loving it all. I had such a good time,” Karan gushed.

YASH-ROOHI'S SWEET SURPRISE FOR DADDA KARAN

Karan said that Yash and Roohi performed on Rishi Kapoor and Jaya Prada starrer 'Dafli Wale Dafli Baja', which eventually made him emotional. The filmmaker said, "You know what my kids' present to me... they are five and half and they know how obsessed I am with 'Dafli Wale' as it goes back to my childhood...as a child, I don't think my father even realised that whenever he asked me to dance on this song, I wasn't doing Rishi Kapoor's steps as I used to Jaya Prada's steps and he was fine with it that his son is performing to those dance steps...That song is a big part of my childhood. I am in love and obsessed with this song...So, when my children wanted to give me a present...I don't know who suggested it to them but they actually rehearsed on the steps of 'Dafli Wale' and they made me sit down and I had tears coming down my eyes because my two children who had made such an effort that they had a dance teacher who taught them this and they performed to 'Dafli Wale'. Of course, they forgot the steps and beats were off but the love was intact."

WHY RANBIR KAPOOR WON'T BE A PART OF KWK7

During the interview, Karan also opened up about the seventh season of his chat show Koffee with Karan, which will stream on Disney Plus Hotstar from July 7. He said, “The actors are all so guarded, I have to yank it (information and gossip from them) out now. Everyone’s like ‘will you ask me about this?’ ‘Will you cut that out?’ I was like ‘what happened to candour?’ People used to be so much easier on that couch. But now everyone’s worried that everything will become a headline. I have got cricketers in trouble for crying out loud (referring to his infamous Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul episode), I have nothing to do with cricket and I even managed that. Ranbir Kapoor has said that he’s not coming on this show. He said, ‘I love you. I will meet you and talk to you at your home.’ He said, ‘Mujhe bohot tension hoti hai‘.”

WHY STARDOM IS NOT THE SAME ANYMORE

KJo also spoke about superstardom, but not in connection with the superstars’ box office performances. Instead, he said that the lack of such superstardom is primarily due to the lack of a certain mystery about the young artists. These days everyone is so accessible, said Karan. “The magnetism, the aura, the mystery, I don’t think this generation has it. When I was at a party, and Mr Amitabh Bachchan, Mr Dilip Kumar walked in, Mr Shah Rukh Khan walked in, there were heads turning everywhere, I have seen it. That aura, everybody feeling their presence, that was power, that was stardom. That was glory. Today, everybody is much easier, more casual, more accessible, more available. I know which gym you go to, which Pilates class you go to, I know what you eat, I know who you meet, I know everything about you, how can there be any mystery about you?” questioned Karan.

(Source: Film Companion)