Manish Malhotra on his close bond with Karan Johar, ‘I was like, ‘Why are you interfering in the clothes?’

MUMBAI: Manish Malhotra, a fashion designer, and director Karan Johar have been friends for more than thirty years. Malhotra talked candidly about his "close" friendship with Johar and their friendship's beginnings in a recent interview. Manish disclosed that he initially got to know Karan when he was working on the 1993 film Gumrah, which KJo's father, Yash Johar, produced.

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Speaking of how the designer met filmmaker Karan Johar, he said, “I’ll tell you how I met him. Sridevi called me for Gumrah, which was produced by Yash Johar ji, and on set was where I met Karan. And then, whenever I used to call Yash ji with questions, Karan would pick up the phone. I would just say, ‘Can I speak with Yash ji?’ One day, he just told me, ‘You never say hi’. And I said, ‘Oh, I’m so sorry. Hi Karan, how are you, can I speak to Yash ji’. So it became like that. And then I met him a couple of times on set, and one night we decided to go out for dinner, and we chatted at that time. That’s how we became friends.”

He added, “Karan was very interested in clothes. He was very interested in what I do, designing for movies. We both loved films. That’s how we got close. And then Duplicate was being made, and I was doing Juhi Chawla’s clothes, and I remember he was interfering in the clothes. And I was like, ‘Why are you interfering in the clothes? You’re just the producer’s son’”

Manish explained that Karan and he share a warm friendship but yet it is not ‘easy’ working with him. He explained, “That’s a difficult thing. For friends to work together for that many years, it’s very rare. Because Karan is Karan Johar, and not a lot of people would be comfortable telling him if something doesn’t work.”

During the shoot of Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, Manish recalled an incident for the song Suraj Hua Maddham. He said, “I took this lehenga very excitedly to his office, and he looked at it and said, ‘This I don’t like’. I was personally hurt. My face started going red. I was very upset. And I just walked out of the office. I might have banged the lehenga on the table.”

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