I Am Ready to Make a Legit Gay Love Story: Karan Johar

I really hope the Indian audience is ready to accept it, says the filmmaker.

KJo is ready to make a film on a same--sex love story. 

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Karan Johar is currently at Davos in Switzerland, attending the ongoing World Economic Forum 2019. The filmmaker was a part of a panel discussion on the LGBTQ community there, and says he enjoyed being part of the panel very much and is himself keen to make a homosexual love story with two of India’s leading actors.

According to India Today, KJo also commented on how much the Sec 377 verdict means for the LGBTQ community.

I have attended three sessions till now at the [World Economic] Forum and one of them was on the topic of the LGBTQ community. I really loved that session... The judgment makes a huge difference to the LGBTQ community of the country. It is a feeling of validation. When your country doesn’t validate you, the feeling eats into you and I think the abolishment is the bravest move that has been made by the judiciary.”

Karan Johar

Karan, whose short film Ajeeb Dastan Hai Yeh for Bombay Talkies did deal with same-sex love, is hoping to make a mainstream film on the topic soon.

“Being a leading filmmaker, I can make movies on the subject. I would love to make a homosexual love story and would want to cast two leading actors in the film. I don’t have in mind specific names of the actors I want to cast in the film, but I surely want to make such a film... I am ready to make a legit gay story, but I really hope the Indian audience is ready to accept it. I would want to start working on it right after I am done directing <i>Takht</i>, which is likely to hit the theatres in 2020.”

(Source: India Today)