Professor KJo!
Karan Johar is taking his newly discovered role as Bollywood's academic ambassador very seriously. Last week, he was invited to lecture 500 students at New York University, and he says about the experience, "The response was overwhelming.
The subject of the course was Bollywood and our popular culture. It isn't so much about what I said to them, as what they asked me. I suddenly realised how far Bollywood was reaching out."
Karan is now being booked for Bollywood lectures in several cities in the US. "I enjoy these sessions, and I don't mind talking about our cinema as long as it doesn't interfere with my main work, which is making movies.
In any case, making movies and taking them to the maximum number of people goes hand in hand." This also gives KJo a chance to talk, and we all know how much he loves to do that!