Did Karan Johar lie about his relatives in his autobiography?

Producer-director Karan Johar's autobiography An Unsuitable Boy, released earlier this year, has riled quite a few members of the extended Johar clan. They find Johar's portrayal of his father's family more fiction than fact. Johar writes that on his paternal side, his relatives were all halwais. His father, he writes, was the only slightly educated member of the clan who could speak English, and that was the reason why he was put at the sales counter and quit shortly afterwards. In fact, Johar's grandfather, before he started a sweets shop in Delhi, was a government employee in Lahore. His eldest uncle, Ved Prakash Johar, graduated from Government College, Lahore, and was a close friend of poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz. He later got a degree in journalism from Columbia University, New York, and joined the IAS. Another uncle was in the Army. A college-educated aunt became a teacher. Only one uncle was a halwai and ran a flourishing sweetmeat shop and restaurant called Nanking in Connaught Place, Delhi. Furious at the cinematic licence of making out a rags-to-riches tale, the husband of one of Johar's cousins, Supreme Court senior counsel Rajiv Nayar, is contemplating suing Johar and the publisher for defaming the whole family.

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