The Fame Game release or Alia Bhatt's Gangubai Kathiawadi? Here's what's making Karan Johar anxious and nervous
“I don’t know what I am more nervous about. The Fame Game or Gangubai.I haven’t seen Gangubai as yet. But I know the magic Sanjay Bhansali is capable of creating with Alia. The girl is blessed. I am so proud of her. I have been waiting for the two of them to work together,” Karan Johar says.
Karan Johar currently in London has double reasons to be nervous and anxious. His first web series The Fame Game which brings Madhuri Dixit back into the limelight starts streaming on Netflix on the same Friday (25 February) as his god-daughter Alia Bhatt’s litmus test in Gangubai Kathiawadi releases in theatres.
During an informal chat from London, Karan sounds like an anxious mother whose children await admission into a prestigious school. “I don’t know what I am more nervous about. The Fame Game or Gangubai.I haven’t seen Gangubai as yet. But I know the magic Sanjay Bhansali is capable of creating with Alia. The girl is blessed. I am so proud of her. I have been waiting for the two of them to work together.”
As for The Fame Game, it gives us one more super-talent, writer Sri Rao, from Dharma Production.
Says Karan enthusiastically, “Sri is a US-based writer. He is amazing. How did I find him? I just did. I guess keep my eyes and mind open. But I take no credit for the talent that comes out of Dharma. These directors writers actors and technicians all have it in them. Varna main kis kaam ka(otherwise what am I worth?).”
Madhuri Dixit, he reveals, was always the first choice for The Fame Game. “We needed a superstar to play a superstar.”
Overt modesty apart, Karan hopes Gangubai Kathiawadi would be a smash hit. And not only for his darling moohboli beti Alia. “The industry needs success. We are struggling desperately post the pandemic.”
Subhash K Jha is a Patna-based journalist. He's been writing about Bollywood for long enough to know the industry inside out.
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