Karan Johar, recently quoted as the ‘Flagbearer of the Nepotism’ holds a fine name and fame in the showbiz. This successful Bollywood director has given many amazing movies in his career and the number of celebrities’ sons he launched so far is simply beyond numbers. Karan is now a good friend to many Bollywood young actors like Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, and Varun Dhawan.
The bonding between Alia and Karan dates back to 2012 when Student Of The Year has come out. The movie has definitely given a blast launch to Varun and Alia. As of now, all the actors from this movie are leading successful careers in Bollywood, thanks to Karan for introducing Alia.
Now, all of sudden, Karan revealed something very much unknown about the movie. He admitted to being guilty when a caller asked if he thought to ask an actor or actress to lose weight for a film counted as body-shaming. Recounting an experience involving Alia Bhatt, who entered Bollywood with his film, Student Of The Year, he said, “I asked Alia to lose weight and now, when I see her hysterical about how she looks, I feel responsible,” he said.
Karan said that before she made her debut, Alia was “pleasantly plump” but he asked her to get in shape to look convincing as a mainstream actress, and now, she is fixated with her weight. “She’s in the gym every day and even if she puts on an extra kilo, she goes crazy. I think I am to blame for it. Now that I am a parent, I would never do this to Roohi and I would like to apologize to Alia,” added the star director.
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Following this, Karan went stating that there was a time when he felt bad about himself with his own weight and even suffered from low self-esteem due to feeling “physically undesirable”.