Karan Johar on brutal response to Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna 20 years ago: Called ‘anti sanskaari’, got immense hate
Twenty years after the release of Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, filmmaker Karan Johar has revisited the making and reception of his 2006 directorial in an emotional Instagram post. The film, centered on extra-marital affairs, had received a hugely polarising response when it had released then. Karan Johar directed the 2006 film Kabhi Alvidaa Na Kehna. Looking back at it all, Johar recalled an incident from a paid preview the night before its release, when he quietly watched the film with an audience. “I was sitting behind a very traditionally dressed middle aged couple (and for some reason they seemed angry and the anger was taken out on the poor popcorn they were chomping on!)” he wrote. At one point, when Dev and Maya (Shah Rukh Khan and Rani Mukerji‘s characters) enter the elevator of a hotel and begin to make love (despite being married to other people), the woman reacted with shock. “At that point Lady Saree looked at Sir Kurta in shock and dropped her popcorn. He turned back and said (in Gujarati) – …
