Karan on digs at Kangana at IIFA: We went a bit too far

Karan Johar, Varun Dhawan and Saif Ali Khan took digs at Kangana Ranaut at IIFA 2017. They also chanted ‘Nepotism Rocks’. However, their jokes didn’t go down well with the audiences and three of them were bashed on Twitter. While Varun Dhawan took to Twitter to apologise about the incident, Karan in an interview with NDTV spoke about the same and agreed that they went too far with mentioning Kangana.

Karan stated, “The idea of that joke was entirely mine, so I take the onus of the idea of what we said. And I think we went a bit too far with the Kangana mention.”

“Of course I don’t believe that ‘nepotism rocks’. Of course, I believe that only talent rocks. If anything that rocks, it’s your talent, hard work and conviction. It’s the energy you bring to your job. What we said was meant to be a joke, which I think has been misplaced, misunderstood and I think it went wrong. I regret it,” he added. (Also Read: Nepotism rocks, not! Varun, Saif, Karan take a dig at Kangana, Twitter is enraged)

The word ‘nepotism’ became the talk of the town after Kangana appeared on Karan’s show ‘Koffee With Karan’. However, Karan regrets bringing up the issue time and again. He said, “No matter what I say or feel about my issues with what Kangana said on my talk show ‘Koffee With Karan’, I think I was raised to be a dignified, a chivalrous, and a decent person. That’s the upbringing that I was given and I feel that I failed on those accounts. I felt that no matter what my thoughts or personal issues on this, I should not have repeatedly brought that up. For that, I’m deeply regretful.”

Talking about the whole joke, Karan said, “It was something that we said in humour, it may be terrible humour, bad humour, misplaced humour, but our intention was not to hurt anyone. That very core is what failed. Then I got carried away in the moment and I regret that.”

“I want to once and for all say and close this chapter after this and subsequently I will not speak about nepotism nor Kangana because it would be distrustful for her and it would be ungraceful at my end, which I’ve already been. Nepotism is easy to access, nobody can deny that, but what you do with that access is what moulds you into a professional,” Karan concluded.

Murtuza Iqbal

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