Karan Johar says fatherhood is ‘an out-of-body emotional experience’!

Karan Johar is termed as the godfather of Bollywood he has launched and made many careers in the past few years. The filmmaker who has been a father figure to many star kids like Alia Bhatt, Ananya Panday, Varun Dhawan to name a few. 

He welcome twins Yash Johar and Roohi Johar via surrogacy in February 2017 and it has been two-and-a-half years since the Kuch Kuch Hota Hai director embraced fatherhood. 

The 47-year-old director-producer has always seen talking about how fatherhood has changed his life, especially him. In a recent interaction with journalist Rajiv Masand, Karan openly talked about was asked how becoming a father shaped him as a person, he said, 

I think it’s changed me in more ways than I can actually explain. I can’t believe that I have people who call me ‘Dadda’…who kind of say ‘don’t go’ when I am leaving the room and who kind of come and just need me to hug them. I’ve never felt that before. I’ve never been in a really serious relationship. So, this kind of love, it just hits me really hard. I don’t think I’ve been loved in that kind of pure innocent way ever. Like you know there has been love from friendships and love from parents and members of my family but I haven’t seen this pure unadulterated love. I’m sure it’s impacting me as a human being. I know it’s made me more responsible in a certain way. I’m feeling a certain sensitivity in general that I don’t think I had earlier in my head and heart and soul…I can’t believe they are mine and I can’t believe they will be mine forever. I just can’t get over it. I have an out-of-body emotional experience every morning I see them and when they call me ‘Dadda’ and I say ‘my son, my daughter’ and I am like ‘they are my children’. I’m still grappling with that emotion. It’s beautiful…like a huge ball of love in my heart right now and I just don’t know what to do with it.

- Karan Johar

During the same interaction, Karan was asked if Kalank’s failure was the reason behind Takht’s delay, and how did he cope with the aftermath. Taking the blame of the failure on himself, the filmmaker said, "The person responsible for Kalank is me and no one else, I was the leader of that team. 

"I think I got carried away with the film, and when Abhishek Verman had the idea of a palette that he wanted to give it and a certain vision, I was so sucked into that world that I lost complete objectivity. I gave everybody unnecessary wings to fly. That film had commendable talent with Abhishek, Alia, Varun, Sonakshi, Aditya, Sanju and Madhuri. I could have just helmed the film better."

Reasoning with why Takht was delayed, Karan said, "There was a reason for which I moved from September to February, as there were logistic issues, date crunching issues and long commitment from the actors. How does the stress of one film affects the other film, when both are totally different feature films? Have you asked me? I am making Takht. I have been making it since last two years and will be making it for the next two years." "Yes, Takht is on a track. It starts in February, I am vastly excited and very very stressed out," he added

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Credits: DNA