Karan is back on TV with spicier combos

Love him or hate him", screams the tagline of the show. Karan Johar is back this season with another exciting innings of his celebrity chat show Koffee With Karan starting February 11 at 9 pm on Star One and Star World. "No one brews coffee and conversation like Karan does. We were unsure about what Karan will come up with this season, since he is a producer, director, actor, designer an anchor, all rolled into one.

This time he has exciting topics with new people and new looks," says Star Entertainment India CEO Sameer Nair. According to Karan, "Sameer and I have a great association. What started as a hobby for me turned out to become a popular show. It has increased my brand value and people are coming and watching my movies because of it. I have not changed anything with the show. This time, we have a hidden camera since that will make my friends more comfortable. The show continues to be about chatty and candid conversations, only the sets have been changed and it looks more like a Greenwich village that has been designed by Sharmista Chatterjee. The hamper has become bigger and I have grown two years older too."

The show continues to bring together interesting combinations of personalities. Family combinations like Sanjay Dutt with his sister Priya, Saif Ali Khan and sister Soha, love birds like John Abraham and Bipasha Basu, and Shahid and Kareena along with an appearance by sister Karisma will be on the show. Interesting combinations of personalities like Vijay Mallaya and Shobhaa De, and Mallika Sherawat with Sanjay Leela Bhansali.

"Though Mallika and Sanjay have nothing in common, it was one of the most interesting episodes since Mallika was at her very best and was looking good too. She also gave most of her quotable quotes. I also have shot an episode with Richard Gere, but he is a solo guest since he had so much to say," says the filmmaker.

The opening show will have Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Rani Mukherji since Karan worked with them in his first film Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. "What was more interesting is the fact that both Shah Rukh and I are hosting two different shows this season and driving off to two different studios at the same time," smiles Karan.

When asked how easy or difficult it was for him to ask questions since most of them are his friends, Karan replies, "It is difficult when the cameras are rolling and most of the times, I know the answers and still have to keep a straight face when I know that they are not telling the truth and at times, it's an eye-opener too. Like the episode with Raj Kumar Hirani. Some of his answers were eye-openers. I will also be having interesting episodes with television personalities like Ekta Kapoor, and am planning to rope in Sourav Ganguly as well since I met him recently."