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Acting, modelling, anchoring and hosting chat shows and award functions
- he enjoys playing various roles but making movies remains his first
love. Multi-talented director Karan Johar, who turned 35 Friday, plans
to take a break from multitasking to work on his fourth film.
He
is currently scripting a story about the pain, anguish and suffering of
an Indian couple post 9/11 in New York. Karan plans to cast his
favourites stars - Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol - for the main roles. But
he is not willing to reveal anything right now.
"I am working on
the script now so it is too early to talk about the film. I make movies
based on stories I believe in," he said, while in the capital to launch
Britain-based luxury brand Alfred Dunhill as its brand ambassador.
Apart
from the glitz and glamour, the director has also pitched in to share
his knowledge and experience with the world. Last year he spoke at the
Wharton India Economic Forum held at the prestigious Wharton School of
University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia as well as at the Hindustan
Times Leadership Summit in New Delhi in November 2006.
The same year he became the first Indian filmmaker to be a jury member in the Miss World competition in Warsaw, Poland.
After
making an impressive start with "Kuch Kuch Hota Hai", starring Shah
Rukh and Kajol in 1998, Karan's popularity soared with his second movie
"Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham" in 2001. The star-studded family drama was a
huge success and it cemented his position in Bollywood.
But he
wasn't so lucky when he made his third film "Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna"
(KANK) about marital discords. Critics panned it, his fans rejected and
the film fell flat at the box office. And he was baffled by the
response.
"I didn't know what went wrong with my film," he was quoted as saying about KANK on his chat show "Koffee With Karan".
Though
he's worked with almost all A-list actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Shah
Rukh Khan, Kajol, Rani Mukerji, Preity Zinta, Salman Khan and Abhishek
Bachchan, he says he is dying to work with Aamir Khan.
"I haven't worked with him yet. He is absolutely wonderful and I would love to work with him."
Once
an obnoxiously fat child, who never wanted go out of his house fearing
people would stare at him, Karan has certainly come a long way. But he
says that he never planned anything.
"Things just happen and I
enjoy it," said Karan, who promises to return to the small screen with
a chat show for NDTV's entertainment channel NDTV Imagine.
He will also soon be seen on the cover of fashion magazine L'Officiel as part of its five-year celebrations.
Indo-Asian News Service
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