New Delhi: Karan Johar has been one of the ace film makers in Bollywood. He has given several superhit movies and has worked with several A-listers.
Most of his movies have been the audience’s favourite; however his 2012 release ‘Student Of The Year’ which bagged a lot of attention. The reason for all the media glare was the for the first time KJo was working with three newcomers – Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt and Sidharth Malhotra.
While the movie was an instant hit and all the three newbies became an overnight star, KJo has confessed he wasn’t happy making the SOTY with the newcomers.
“When I was making 'Student Of The Year', I used to feel very sad on the set, there was no star on that set ever... We definitely have to launch faces, we make films with big budgets, we have to sell them. We are producers at the end of the day. I'm not a corporate studio, I'm not funded internationally, I don't have that pool of wealth lying to take that chance with, I need to have a selling face, then work around it,” Karan told IANS
He further stated, "When I made 'Student Of The Year', it was a chance I took, fortunately things worked out but it doesn't work like that always" .
Karan also emphasised on the crisis of having minimal number of stars in the film industry.
He said, “100 movies to make and six of them only that can sell your movie, suddenly you take anyone else and they say 'you won't get the budget otherwise, then the music won't sell, overseas won't sell, satellite won't sell, digital won't sell, nothing sells then.
"We're going through a crisis. There really are those many actors who are in trade parlance are viable, saleable. It is very limiting, we have very few movie stars and I hope the country starts loving more and more stars very soon. And gives them longevity as movie stars so that we can actually have the choice. The way that we used to love our movie stars up to the 1980s that madness and insanity is definitely depleting with time." Karan added.
