Karan Johar breaks silence on destroying people's career in Bollywood: 'I only did...'

Karan Johar was on Raj Shamani’s podcast when he addressed the allegations of destroying people’s career in Bollywood. He said, “People say iska iska career destroy kiya. Maine kisi ka kuch nahi kiya. Maine bas apna kaam kiya.”

“I have worked with all kinds of actors. I can list several actors and other talents who did their first films with us - many of whom were complete outsiders,” he said, adding, “I’ve launched around 50 actors and 25 directors, many of whom come from non-film backgrounds. Yet, no one ever talks about that.”

Johar recently opened up about experiencing pain and anxiety attacks during his one-sided love phase and called it a “torture” and “the worst feeling in the world.”

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He said, “There is nothing unfortunate than love). There is physical pain, not the heart attack pain, but there is pain. You do feel anxiety, you can’t breathe.”

The filmmaker added, “You feel someone has put a very heavy thing on your chest. You keep checking your phone, if he is online, why didn’t he call, where could he be. Your mind is always distracted. It is torture, one-sided love.”

“When I looked at one-sided love as a power of a feeling that I had, it has empowered me, then I started letting go. That love wasn’t mine anyway. But dard hota hai (there is pain), it’s the worst feeling in the world. I have much empathy for those who are going through one-sided love…Mera pyaar beshumaar tha, woh pyaar tha, ek tarfa tha but kabhi negative nahi tha (My love was abundant, there was love, it was one–sided but it was never negative). I never hated or wanted anything bad to happen who couldn’t reciprocate my love,” he added.