DOTW: Why is K-Jo still allowed to make films? - Page 3

Huma, I absolutely agree. Even if people are fueling these sort of films, the filmmaker, as an artist, has the responsibility to not take advantage and serve audiences whatever crap they dig up.

I'm pretty confident that K-Jo is a homosexual, and he indirectly pours his love for men through his lame jokes on homosexuals. If he really wants Indians to take a step forward and accept homosexuality, then maybe, you know, HE SHOULDN'T MOCK THEM!

Huma, with regards to KANK, the idea was good, different and definitely unconventional. The execution was flawed and suffered from lack of thinking and complete inability to knit a story around that idea.

Extra marital affairs or relationships are NOT built on flimsy grounds. It takes a lot of courage, pain, thought, guilt, yes, no, yes, no and finally when the partners give in (particularly when both are married) there is a lot of intensity, commitment to each other and hidden emotions which are so strong that you start to "feel" even if you are a listener/counselor/friend/confidante.. So just imagine how deep such a bond is, when it breaks the fetters of society. There is much more to extra-marital affairs than two strangers suddenly discussing their private lives and ending up getting intimate. The way it has been put up here, it comes across at a more sensual level, making it seem that the protagonists are only after physical satisfaction

K-Jo handled such sensitvity with such a casual attitude....since the basic rendering of the theme was so poor and disappointing, the characters did not depict any sensitivity/intensity/guilt/reason for an affair... no point in going into other cinematic content... it is a long awaited but disappointing finale..Study human relationships next time... before you venture into adult stuff.. K-Jo fails to narrate anything; story or moral wise.

Lesson for Mr. K-Jo: There's a lot that goes into a movie to make it watchable than designer dresses, New York streets, and the most expensive and talented set of actors in Indian film industry. Please take charge of the movie and understand your responsibility and accountability to get the best out of them.

Great post!!

firstly, i would like to thank the person who made this post. this had been something that was in the back of my head for a very long time. Probably ever since KANK had released.

For me, Karan Johar's best and only good film is Kuch kuch hota hai. The film is simple compared to the other stuff he has made and this film shows the honesty that this film was made with. it shows this strive that Karan might have had during that time to make his first film with hard work and honesty. But i must say that over the time, his movies portray corruption to me.

K3G... well what can i say? I hated the way he conceived the character of Poo. she was totally corrupted! (i mean she must have been born n brought up in india n moved to london at the age of 11, n now is 20-21 yrs old n has embraced western culture in such a way that it seems hard to digest). i mean feeling the need to be sexy while praying? is that what the west teaches you? I don't know what London Karan went to coz the London that I'm from doesn't lack culture! I disliked the way he was showing how kids being brought up in western shores r more bound to succumb to bad ways of lives, well thats what i understood of it while watching his films!

KANK is something that had many many mistakes! Didnt he notice them while it was still in the scripting stage? He says that the four characters flawed individual (arent we all? but moving on...). Well firstly, srk n preity's characters were best friends at college right? then y this indifference? i mean, dont we all want our spouse to be someone who can be our best friends too? no one forced them to get married. As for rani n abhi's character, ok she feels like she has to return the favour for raising her etc. but then again, if u really r like a daughter for him, do u think he wud have taken offence if u had refused to get married? he wud have thank u for saving his sons life lol. but i guess karan needed an excuse to show loveless marriages.

Rani's character is so cold towards her husband, for no reason. she doesnt bother to give the marriage a chance. she looks for excuses while srk's character lets his wounded male ego take the better of him. Ok, i cud probably say that srk's character was slightly realistic in this case coz if a man wasnt earning n the wife had become the "man" of the house, that may hurt him. But from what i know of the film, it seemed as if both rani's n srk's characters were lookin for an excuse to cheat on their partners; it cud have been the doodwaala aur kaam waali bai for all we know, but it happened to be the main lead in the film. karan made infidelity seem as simple n common as "one day i woke up, i went to the supermarket, i got a loaf of bread, i commited infidelity, i went home and went to sleep"! I dont think the subject was treated sensitively or sensibly in the film at all.

n y did he make it such a glorified happy ending? two ppl got cheated on, did u forget about them? suddenly everything becomes sugarcoated and theres a happy ever after ending. that is selling to me that he is promoting infidelity😕 was that the intention?

Back to karan, y does he have to waste so much money on irrelevant things and hundreds of firangi dancers? seriously dude, at times, we just dont care n wait for the song to finish so that we can get on with the film! n what was with the priety's character in KANK? she was the chief editor of some western magazine? n so was priyanka in Dostana. im not trying to sound rude but in the media industry in the west, it is rare that u will see an asian at the top, unless its for an asian magazine or channel. there r still some discriminations that go on. he really needs to do some research. not every asian person in the west live in mansions n walk the streets half naked. we have morals too dude!

N something that i really really really dislike is that he himself confessed that he makes films for the NRI audiences. erm do u actually knw what they want? have u ever bothered to ask them what they want? no, rather u force feed them expecting them to lurvee ur "masterpiece"... n then u wonder y u dont win many awards anymore! Yes i agree srk is a superstar n most NRI audiences wud love to see him, but plz stop giving ur actors such shabby characters. have u ever wondered y Chak De India n Srk's character was liked so much? Maybe becoz it wasnt another plagiarised done to death love story!

I see a lot of superficiality in his films. if u aint got money n u aint got the looks, u aint wanted here! thats what his films usually scream out to me. whether its in the form of the chubby rohan in k3g, the tomboy anjali in kuch kuch hota hai or even the chashmish naina in kal ho na ho! inner beauty takes a walk in his films! its all about loving ur exterior, hai na K-JO? 😉

ok i think i shud stop writing. written an essay on my feelings, but honestly i dont hate him😆. i just dislike it when things cud have been made with simplicity and honesty but r made with such artificiality n baseless opinions.

when i heard about him making "serious" films now, it got me even worried! i dont think hes such a efficient director to make such films. im not denying the fact that he has experience, but someone who refuses to go out of the confort zone for a film, (i.e. not casting srk) is quite doubtful to me. i wonder how much the directors of kaal n dostana had to fight to not cast srk?

Huma, excellent point...

Originally posted by: roxthefox

It was worse enough to sit through the torture of Dostana, and now he's making more shallow garbage on terrorism? 🤢 Why is this guy allowed to make films? He's ruined Bollywood's name in the international cinema by producing pompous, self-absorbed, garbage, a la Dostana and KANK.

The sad part is, no one realizes it. Dostana was the biggest hit of last year. Let's make carictures out of gay people and mock homosexuality... har har!

I was already aware of the theme before I went to see the movie, but to be frank I never expected such prudent matter will be used to literally make non-sense, what eccentrics the movie to deviate from it's theme is the way protagonists strive to make a run for their love interest but still not keeping the dignity of the social status attained unwillingly, absolutely horrendous.

Such a mature subject matter was handled with immense immaturity, and this has not only degraded the social stature of people belong to the stream but also embarrasses everyone while watching it alongside their pals.

Two straight Indian men acting gay......Ha! ha! ha!, and how long can you carry that as a joke? Apparently, enough for it to make a sequel for our naive Indian audiences. And I heard people saying that it takes a giant leap from the conventional Bollywood stories. 🤢 This movie definitely doesn't elevate Indian cinema to the "next level" but, rather drops Indian cinema below the great quality of some of the classical productions. This movie takes Indian cinema backwards, into a cultural cesspool of miss matched Westernized Indians trying to look cool, and hip.

And now K-Jo is on his moral crusade once again, this time, with terrorism as his victim. Such a sensitive topic should not fall into the hands of an amateur and juvenile 'filmmaker.' I can totally predict a contrieved and preachy mess of a film, with Kareena Kapoor giving a bhashan on how goras are so evil and sadistic, and in between, she'll probably start singing 'Sarey Jahan Se Acha'...K-jo takes himself way too seriously and tries to force a message that no one wants to hear.

It is the arrogance of people like Johar who produce such COMMERCIALIZED CRAP, which is WHOLLY disconnected with India that the main criticism must be directed against.

Talentless hack.

Discuss your views freely on this :)

Actually, i LOVE KARAN JOHAR, and his MOVIES! so yeah!

I do agree with certain points about Dostana.

that is tru
but its comedy so RELAX
nothing wrong ok
its like the 21 century things gotta change
personally i still am against gay people but i dnt think he mocked them
i mean how else would you potray them??
they are apparently not normal

and then the nerve this man has to say hes brought it out in the open and its no longer a taboo...