Atul Mehndi, the teddy-bear lookalike, took a pledge, with his hand over his chest, to never watch any Indian movie featuring Pakistani artistes after the attack on the Indian army in Uri. Karan Johar’s Ae Dil Hai Mushkil became highly contentious before its release since it featured Pakistani actor Fawad Khan. Atul Mehndi and his nationalist ilk criticised Johar and urged everyone to boycott the movie, lest they would be anti-national.
Karan Johar appeared in a video, double-chinned, gaunt and sombre, dark circles under his eyes — a perfect image for his morbid audience. He cried like a sissy, pleading his love for India. He implored the detractors, like a prayerful beggar on a train, to allow the release of his movie and promised to never work with any Pakistani in future.
Once the movie released, fawning reviews started flowing. As soon as it became apparent that Karan Johar had relinquished happy endings forever and that he had traded entertainment for darker issues surrounding the “first world”, he become a national hero. Atul Mehndi and his ilk not only watched the movie but extolled it with sheer sycophancy. All it takes is a sad ending to become a nationalist these days.
I won’t be surprised if it was another publicity gimmick to promote his movie. If people wanted to boycott movies with Pakistani connection, then why Raees came out two months later without any objection despite having Mahira Khan? (Interestingly, Mahira Khan had a significant role in Raees compared to Fawad Khan’s cameo in Ae Dil Hai Mushkil.)
Karan Johar has become a darling of the liberals just because he expressed his loathe for happy endings. He often talks about his depression that inspired him to make Ae Dil Hai Mushkil. He is cunning opportunist. He looks down on happy endings (because his own life is glum), yet he says that he cannot travel in economy class. Just see his contradiction. In an interview to a sycophant film critic, he said that he once travelled in economy class when he was a nobody (in the days of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge) and it was “very uncomfortable” for him even then. These “serious” filmmakers pontificate on the virtues of “sensible” cinema, depression and sad endings, yet they can never leave the comforts of business class. His idiotic fans justify him by saying that even though he cannot give up comfort, he compensates for it by making movies on the “first-world problems”; so that gives him the privilege to lead a lavish lifestyle as long as he leads a sad life. What a sick explanation by his equally sick, rabid fans!
By no means do I mean that he or anyone should give up affluence. It’s just the hypocrisy of these stupid movie buffs that’s laughable. If a lowbrow filmmaker had talked about his or her love for riches, people would have castigated that person for being thankless, as if the cure of cancer lies in the movies of Karan Johar and Anurag Kashyap.
He bribed the self-proclaimed film critic Kamaal R. Khan to trash the rival film, Ajay Devgan’s Shivaay, which was releasing on the same day. Ajay Devgan even wrote about it on twitter.
The brain-dead yuppies say that directors like Anurag Kashyap and the born-again auteur Karan Johar should stop making movies in India because Indian audience aren’t worthy of them. Since the neo-Nazis love Hollywood and Iraninan cinema, the duo should make movies in US and Iran. Karan Johar says that he can get arrested in India if he reveals his sexual orientation. So, one of the most powerful men of India claims that he can get arrested if he tells anyone that he’s gay. The man who hangs out with powerful people like Shobhaa De, Anurag Kashyap, Tanmay Bhat etc. fears prosecution because of his sexuality. It’s as preposterous as the politics of guilt he plays to get critical acclaim. Perhaps Karan Johar and Anurag Kashyap should make movies in Iran for a more deserving audience and enjoy the “tolerance” of Iran’s autocratic theocracy. Homosexuality is punishable by death there. I am not suggesting that they should relocate to Iran but merely replying to their hostile supporters who claim that India isn’t worthy of them.
A movie buff can go any length to get critical acclaim. The pledge taken by Atul Mehndi and others was just empty twaddle — much like the “sensible” values of Karan Johar. When depression becomes a virtue and bliss becomes a sin, Kamaal Rashid Khan’s idiocy is here to stay.
Karan Johar appeared in a video, double-chinned, gaunt and sombre, dark circles under his eyes — a perfect image for his morbid audience. He cried like a sissy, pleading his love for India. He implored the detractors, like a prayerful beggar on a train, to allow the release of his movie and promised to never work with any Pakistani in future.
Once the movie released, fawning reviews started flowing. As soon as it became apparent that Karan Johar had relinquished happy endings forever and that he had traded entertainment for darker issues surrounding the “first world”, he become a national hero. Atul Mehndi and his ilk not only watched the movie but extolled it with sheer sycophancy. All it takes is a sad ending to become a nationalist these days.
I won’t be surprised if it was another publicity gimmick to promote his movie. If people wanted to boycott movies with Pakistani connection, then why Raees came out two months later without any objection despite having Mahira Khan? (Interestingly, Mahira Khan had a significant role in Raees compared to Fawad Khan’s cameo in Ae Dil Hai Mushkil.)
Karan Johar has become a darling of the liberals just because he expressed his loathe for happy endings. He often talks about his depression that inspired him to make Ae Dil Hai Mushkil. He is cunning opportunist. He looks down on happy endings (because his own life is glum), yet he says that he cannot travel in economy class. Just see his contradiction. In an interview to a sycophant film critic, he said that he once travelled in economy class when he was a nobody (in the days of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge) and it was “very uncomfortable” for him even then. These “serious” filmmakers pontificate on the virtues of “sensible” cinema, depression and sad endings, yet they can never leave the comforts of business class. His idiotic fans justify him by saying that even though he cannot give up comfort, he compensates for it by making movies on the “first-world problems”; so that gives him the privilege to lead a lavish lifestyle as long as he leads a sad life. What a sick explanation by his equally sick, rabid fans!
By no means do I mean that he or anyone should give up affluence. It’s just the hypocrisy of these stupid movie buffs that’s laughable. If a lowbrow filmmaker had talked about his or her love for riches, people would have castigated that person for being thankless, as if the cure of cancer lies in the movies of Karan Johar and Anurag Kashyap.
He bribed the self-proclaimed film critic Kamaal R. Khan to trash the rival film, Ajay Devgan’s Shivaay, which was releasing on the same day. Ajay Devgan even wrote about it on twitter.
People are judged by the company they keep. How can anyone who considers Kamaal R. Khan a film critic be called an intellectual? Johar has nexus with Fascists like AIB and TVF and harangues people about free speech, when in truth they are the most intolerant people in India. They police people’s taste in cinema, music etc. and get hostile when anyone criticises them. When Mohammed Rafi’s fans peacefully protested on the derogatory remarks about Rafi in the movie, yuppies chastised them. If a mainstream movie criticised an American TV show like Breaking Bad or any Hollywood legend, would these yuppies stay quiet? At least Rafi’s fans are peaceful. Aamir Khan once mildly criticised AIB Roast and the liberals nearly destroyed his career.Hear what self proclaimed no. 1 critic and trade analyst Kamaal R Khan has to say. https://t.co/wRc7moSlsZ— Ajay Devgn (@ajaydevgn) 1 September 2016
The brain-dead yuppies say that directors like Anurag Kashyap and the born-again auteur Karan Johar should stop making movies in India because Indian audience aren’t worthy of them. Since the neo-Nazis love Hollywood and Iraninan cinema, the duo should make movies in US and Iran. Karan Johar says that he can get arrested in India if he reveals his sexual orientation. So, one of the most powerful men of India claims that he can get arrested if he tells anyone that he’s gay. The man who hangs out with powerful people like Shobhaa De, Anurag Kashyap, Tanmay Bhat etc. fears prosecution because of his sexuality. It’s as preposterous as the politics of guilt he plays to get critical acclaim. Perhaps Karan Johar and Anurag Kashyap should make movies in Iran for a more deserving audience and enjoy the “tolerance” of Iran’s autocratic theocracy. Homosexuality is punishable by death there. I am not suggesting that they should relocate to Iran but merely replying to their hostile supporters who claim that India isn’t worthy of them.
A movie buff can go any length to get critical acclaim. The pledge taken by Atul Mehndi and others was just empty twaddle — much like the “sensible” values of Karan Johar. When depression becomes a virtue and bliss becomes a sin, Kamaal Rashid Khan’s idiocy is here to stay.
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