Filmmaker Karan Johar has returned to the big screen as director after seven years with Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani. The film has unanimously received all the love and support from audiences and critics alike. With Bollywood doing well in theatres, Karan Johar says that he never thought that Bollywood was doing anything with the content they were making.
In an event Express Adda, as quoted by Indian Express, Karan Johar said, “I never thought there was any problem with what Bollywood was doing. We have had bad years in the past, and we were having another one or two bad years. It doesn’t mean, ‘Boycott Bollywood’, ‘They are dead’, ‘The South is taking over’. South is great. What they are doing is amazing.”
The director added that he was the first one to promote the Baahubali 2: The Conclusion pan-India. He said, “I was the first one who went with all reverence in my heart to Rajamouli sir and wanted to present Baahubali. I am obsessed with them. Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam, the four kinds of cinema have catered to different kinds of audiences and have done it with super conviction. So, I have a lot of respect for them. But I also have a lot of respect for the storytellers we have in our (Hindi) cinema.”
Talking about the recent blockbuster success of Gadar 2 starring Sunny Deol, he added, “Gadar has blown everyone’s brains away because it was a film which was hugely successful in 2001, and now in 2023, it is breaking every record. I have been so glad for the single screens.”
On the work front, Karan Johar will next direct an actioner which he announced on his 50th birthday last year. ALSO READ: Salman Khan to play an Army Officer in Karan Johar and Vishnu Vardhan's next; will sport an Army cut
