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Karan Johar

Filmmaker, producer and television host

Karan Johar is a filmmaker, producer and television personality in Hindi cinema. He is the son of the producer Yash Johar and runs Dharma Productions, which has launched many actors and directors. He has won four National Film Awards and eight Filmfare Awards, and the Government of India awarded him the Padma Shri in 2020.

His directing debut, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), won him the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment and Filmfare Awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay. The family drama Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001) and the musical romance Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006) were big hits in India and overseas. The social drama My Name Is Khan (2010) won him a second Filmfare for Best Director.

As a producer he made the spy thriller Raazi (2018) and the biopic Shershaah (2021), both of which won Filmfare Awards for Best Film. On this guide he directed Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham and My Name Is Khan, all three starring Shah Rukh Khan.

He has hosted the talk show Koffee with Karan since 2004.

Credits in detail

Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001, Hindi) was released 14 December 2001. Karan Johar directed it. The cast also includes Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan.

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998, Hindi) was released 16 October 1998. Karan Johar directed it. The cast also includes Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Rani Mukerji.

My Name Is Khan (2010, Hindi) was released 12 February 2010. Karan Johar directed it. The cast also includes Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol.

Known for

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai · Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham · My Name Is Khan

Work on ShowBuzz

  • Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham

    Film · 2001 · Director. A rich Delhi family splits when the adopted son marries against his father’s wish. Karan Johar directs. It is melodrama at full volume, and it is the family film a huge diaspora audience still puts on.

  • Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

    Film · 1998 · Director. Karan Johar’s first film. A college triangle becomes, eight years later, a father’s attempt to keep a promise to his wife. Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol lead. Salman Khan plays Aman. It is one of the films that fixed the late-1990s Dharma look.

  • My Name Is Khan

    Film · 2010 · Director. Rizwan Khan, a Muslim man with Asperger’s, crosses America after 9/11 to tell the president that his name is Khan and he is not a terrorist. Karan Johar directs. Shibani Bathija wrote it. Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol lead.

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