Director and producer recently shared a cryptic story on Instagram. In the story Karan lashed out at the film industry for following trends. He later compared the trends to Instagram Reels. Read along.

Mumbai: Producer and director Karan Johar has been gaining attention in the entertainment industry. On April 4, 2024, K.Jo shared a cryptic post on his Instagram stories where he mentioned the trends” followed in the Bollywood industry. However, it is worth noting that Karan had openly lashed out at Bollywood for not producing original content. Hence, focusing on the standards of Bollywood, which blindly follows the trending topics. Take a look at what Karan Johar had to share.

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Karan Johar Shares Cryptic Post On Instagram

Taking to Karan Johar’s Instagram Story, the director wrote a descriptive passage regarding the trends” the film industry had glued for a long time. Karan wrote, Bada scale chahiye toh wo banaao. Action chali. Action banaao! Love story chali toh love story banaao! Chick-flick hit hui toh wahan jaao! Mausam har hafte badalta hai conviction har hafte marta hai! Box office hai bhaiya, Instagram reel nahi 30 second ki trending mein reh jaaoge wahin ke wahin!

(If you need a bigger scale then make it. If action films work then start making action movies. If a love story is on the trend so make a romantic film! If a Chick flick is hit then run after Chick flicks! The atmosphere changes frequently the conviction has been killed frequently! Brother, it is Box Office, not Instagram reels that you set on trending for 30 seconds, and then you stay there forever) (sic).”

Take a look at Karan Johar’s Cryptic Instagram Story:

A news report filed by Galatta Plus recalled a conversation with Karan Johar back in 2022 where he mentioned a similar statement, I think the core issue is that we come from a mainstream industry in Hindi cinema, and that includes myself, which does not have one very strong quality that every other cinema on this panel has. That is conviction. We kind of always go with the flow. We had such an original voice in Salim-Javed in the 70s. We created a certain character and the concept of that angsty, angry hero was derived from other cinemas. Then, in the 80s, suddenly something happened and there came a host of remakes. That’s where the conviction loss started. We started remaking every film popular in Tamil and Telugu (sic).”

Netizens on Reddit Take On Karan’s Cryptic Story

While many were confused regarding Karan Johar’s cryptic IG story users on Reddit were on the search to find what made K.Jo upset. A user commented, Kill teaser is going to come out today. Soon he will be all over the place promoting that film and Lakshya, boasting about how he launching a non-nepo” face. He’s going to become even more insufferable with his gyaan (sic). Another user wrote, Who pissed him off now? (sic).” The third user remarked, The guy’s whose favourite past time is to kill conviction is talking about conviction being taken out. He who popularizes, pushes and more often shoves his insta quality talents is complaining about insta reels quality of movies (sic).” The fourth comment read, Says the guy who wanted to buy the remake rights of hit Kannada film Sapta Sagaradaache Ello. Hypocrisy, thy name is Karan Johar” (In Indravadhan Sarabhai style) (sic).”

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