Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar faced severe backlash after the untimely demise of Sushant Singh Rajput, where netizens blamed him and Alia Bhatt for banning the late actor. In fact, an FIR was filed against him along with Salman Khan, Ekta Kapoor, Sajid Nadiadwala and Sanjay Leela Bhansali in Bihar. This backlash seems to affect Karan Johar in a big way as we witnessed a good amount of drop in his followers on Twitter. KJo has also mysteriously unfollowed many accounts and is now following only four celebs apart from his production house's official accounts. These celebs include Akshay Kumar, Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan and PM Narendra Modi. Also Read - Dostana 2: Has Akshay Kumar stepped in for Kartik Aaryan in the Karan Johar film?
Bollywood producer, director and actor Karan Johar has unfollowed everyone on Twitter barring eight personalities. This follows massive backlash for his alleged encouragement of nepotism in Hindi. Earlier, heartbroken with the lack of support from people he thought were closest to him, Karan Johar unfollowed almost every film actor on Twitter. His current following count stands at 8, and he now follows only three actors – Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar and Shah Rukh Khan.
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- Karan Johar is at the receiving end of heavy criticism for allegedly favouring Bollywood insiders over the likes of Sushant Singh Rajput, whose untimely demise has re-ignited the debate about nepotism on social media. Following Sushant's death, thousands of people unfollowed Karan on social media.
- Karan Johar turned a proud parent to twins Yash and Roohi in February 2017. Soon after their birthday the daddy dearest had updated his Twitter bio, which aptly described his state of mind as a.
On SSR's demise, Karan Johar expressed his grief on Instagram and wrote, 'I blame myself for not being in touch with you for the past year..... I have felt at times like you may have needed people to share your life with...but somehow I never followed up on that feeling...will never make that mistake again...we live in very energetic and noisy but still very isolated times ...some of us succumb to these silences and go within...we need to not just make relationships but also constantly nurture them....Sushants unfortunate demise has been a huge wake up call to me ...to my level of compassion and to my ability to foster and protect my equations.....I hope this resonates with all of you as well....will miss your infectious smile and your bear hug ....' Also Read - Is Vijay Deverakonda's film with director Sukumar shelved? Here's the truth
On the professional front, Karan Johar will soon start the shooting of his ambitious project Takht, which features Ranveer Singh, Vicky Kaushal, Alia Bhatt, Anil Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Bhumi Pednekar and Janhvi Kapoor in lead roles. Also Read - From Kartik Aaryan to Salman Khan – 5 actors who had ugly fallouts with their directors
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