Karan Johar Takes a Dig at his Movies In I Hate Luv Storys

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That Karan Johar has an amazing sense of humor is an understatement. But he has gone ahead and criticizes his own kind of cinema in his production In I Hate Luv Storys. To be directed by debutant Punit Malhotra, the successful director and producer took a dig on his brand of cinema. He hasn’t even spared Aditya Chopra, the director of the legendary hit Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge and Kunal Kohli, the director of Hum Tum. So, there are quite a few reference points in the box office hits that reigned box office years ago

Apparently, the film’s diehard Bollywood-hating hero Imran Khan keeps making digs at Karan Johar and his kind of cinema. The movie’s protagonist played by Imraan Khan hates Bollywood flicks big time and always has something or the other to comment about the ‘filmigiri’ in the mushy films. Karan seems to have made a statement that he has always made in press: that he has outgrown mushy films.

Says Karan sportingly, “Of course I’ve outgrown mush. And if I’ve to make Kuch Kuch Hota Hai today I’d do it in a completely different way. Yeah I’ve outgrown mush. But I’ve not outgrown love. In I Hate Luv Storys Imran Khan plays a diehard cynic, one of those upper-class Mumbai dudes who look down on Bollywood. And he keeps making barbed comments on mushy movies.”

Karan Johar believes that his styles of romantic movies is outdated. “But that’s okay. A new generation of directors like Puneet Malhotra who directs I Hate Luv Storys have come in. They’ve their own take on love. And somewhere what I did in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai may seem outdated now.” Though Karan loves to spoof himself, we wonder if his colleagues Adi and Kunal Kohli are fine with it. After all egos come in various shapes and sizes.