So this happened! Kangana Ranaut appeared on ‘Koffee with Karan’ along with her ‘Rangoon’ co-star Saif Ali Khan. The show was one of the most interesting ones till date and we just can’t stop hailing Queen Kangana for being real. She was real as it can get and made sure she gave Karan Johar the answers he didn’t want to hear.
Many a times, celebrity guests and Karan Johar made fun of Kangana’s language skills on previous seasons of Koffee with Karan. The filmmaker apologized to Kangana for the same on his latest episode. It all looked like a perfect ending! However, looks like it was all for the show and he didn’t really mean to be apologetic for being the ‘flag-bearer of nepotism’. Kangana accused him of nepotism and said he would play a movie mafia if there was a film or a book made/written on her life.
Karan Johar swiftly apologized to her for his ‘subconscious’ behavior of being a part of the gossip gang which laughed at Kangana’s every move. Soon after the show, the filmmaker made some not so popular comments. In an interview with talk show host Anupama Chopra at the London School of Economics, India forum, Karan Johar said, “I am done with Kangana playing the woman card and the victim card. I am done.”
Let’s decipher what the filmmaker said! What is a ‘woman card’ and a ‘victim card’? Did he mean that she was taking an advantage of being a woman and ‘victim’ of nepotism? Hell yes, she should then. The way he has spit venom against her after garnering the required TRPs for his show, proves that she was right. Karan Johar has been playing the ‘victim’ card for years now. No, we have no say on his sexual preferences or the route that he chose to have kids. Karan Johar never stood up for the long fight that many ‘homosexuals’ have been a part of in this country. In an interview with India Today, he simply played the ‘victim card’ which we believe is probably his choice and the right thing to do. Then why blame Kangana for paying the victim card? Hypocrisy much? Continued…
By Deepa Kalukuri
Here’s what he told in January 2017 to India Today, “I have become like the poster boy of homosexuality in this country. But honestly, I have no problem with people saying what they want about me. Twitter has the most abuse. I wake up to at least 200 hate posts saying, ‘Get out, you’re polluting our nation, you’re dirtying society’ or ‘Shove [IPC Section] 377 up your arse.’ I get this on a daily basis and I’ve learned to laugh it off. One man came up to me once very cockily at Heathrow airport and said, ‘Is it true that you are a homo?’ He was with his wife and child, and he asked me this. I looked at him and said, ‘Why, are you interested?’ And he said, ‘Hey, what-what what!’ And I said, ‘Don’t what-what me.’ And I walked out.” Yes, that was a great response and we’re tired of ‘homophobic’ people making such ignorant comments.
What homosexuals are going through in the country has been well documented and the new generation has been more accepting of it. Then why play the victim card? If you don’t believe it, read his biography, ‘An Unsuitable Boy’. Now let’s talk about the ‘woman card’. We can’t believe as an Indian man, he’s ignorant to all the violence, discrimination and inequality that Indian women have been faced with for centuries. That’s why may be his movies never speak of women empowerment. And please quit saying that ‘Saba’ from ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’ is an example of it.
Coming back to his interview with Anupama Chopra, he added, “You cannot be this victim at every given point of time who has this sad story to tell about how she has been terrorized by ‘bad Bollywood’ If it is that way then leave.” Who does Karan Johar really think he is? His statement clearly speaks of what the privileged 1 per cent of the film industry thinks. The industry is not owned by him of any of the Bollywood gangs which claims it.
He has the right to opinion but when someone is ‘giving it to him’ in his own words, then may be he should be as accepting as he is of the gossips he indulges in! The world is changing so should the mentality of men and women. If as a part of the modern society, we still accuse and blame women or men for speaking out, then it’ll take another millennium to bring back civilization. Make the world a better place, Karan!