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Karan Johar on online hatred: 'It took a toll on my mom. I saw her literally crumble under that'
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2:40Now PlayingFilmmaker Karan Johar has now opened up about the online hatred that he has received lately. Talking about the time, when he was being targeted on cyberspace, Karan told Sucharita Tyagi, that it affected his mother Hiroo Johar. The filmmaker revealed, 'In the last three years, I felt there was a lot of hate that was coming my way and it had really taken a toll on my mom. I saw her literally crumble under that because she used to watch because she used to watch TV channels. She was reading stuff online. She was quite like that in the zones. She was watching TV anchors screaming and shouting and saying the most godawful things like me, demonising me for some reason. Then there were people who were kind of writing the same on Twitter and other social media platforms.' Karan also reacted on being referred to as 'movie mafia' and said, 'All I had to be was resilient at that time because I had to be strong for my own mom and for myself. You feel kind of naked after that has happened. Abhi toh kapde utar diye hain sabne. Abhi kya chupana? Kisse ladna?' He added, 'Everyone anyway has kind of stormed into your life, made assumptions. They don’t know the person I am. They just made this perception of mafia or something they keep talking about. They don’t know how a producer on a daily basis is trying to get his or her cast.' Karan was also asked whether he wanted to take Shah Rukh Khan for any role in 'Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani' and he said he didn't and added, 'Shah Rukh did the most defining scene for me in 'Ae Dil Hai Mushkil' and for that I will always be very grateful to him. I can’t keep using my privilege with Shah Rukh. I can’t push it. Do you remember he shot with us for 18 days for 'Brahmastra' with no monetary exchange. He just gave his heart, time, body everything for that sequence. It was a large sequence. If I go again to him, it will be too much. Shah Rukh never says no to me. But I can’t keep going to him. I think you need to keep that card very close. I will use it because I have that kind of access to Mr Khan but I don’t want to keep using it for no reason.' For more news and updates, stay tuned to ETimes.
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