The filmmaker's next, a period romance was actually Yash Johar's idea, for which he visited Lahore
Student of the Year was a risky proposition for Karan Johar, by his own admission. But the game has paid off, what with the film doing well at the box office. But rather than rest on his laurels, Kjo has laready moved on to his next.
It is a project that is very close to his heart; says the filmmaker, a love story his father, the late Yash Johar, had envisaged and researched on. Says KJo, "It's period love story and it's script I have had for the past eight years. In fact, my father had researched the film. He had gone to Lahore for three months before he passed away. After his demise, I had such an emotional attachment with the script that I couldn't bring myself to work on it."
Instead of working on his father's unfinished project, he got busy making Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna and the script remained untouched. However, the story and the idea refused to let go of him. "The story kept coming back to me. It's an epic romance and my friends who've heard it kept telling me to make a film based on it. So after SOTY released, I decided I had to make this film."
Karan plans to fly out by end November just to write the script and will start shooting the film by November next year. In the last eight years or so, this is perhaps his quickest return to his original role of director.
"My father would have been baffled with everything I have achieved in the last eight years," says the prolific director-producer."I am proud to say I have launched 10 filmmakers with a success ratio of 80 percent. My father always wanted the company to grow bigger and make Dharma Productions a brand to reckon with. I guess I did a lot of it very fast, and he would have been very proud had he been alive,"says Karan.
Apart from this labour of love, there's a lot else happening in Karan's life. The filmmaker's new house is ready and Ritesh Deshmukh, who has done up the interiors, is busy lending finishing touches.
Asked if he is the proud owner of an entire building, he quips, "Itna lucky nahi hoon main. I have bought the top two floors of the building which is at Carter Road.My pad has a view of the sea and mom always wanted that!" The actor plans to move in along with his mother within the next three months.
Student of the Year was a risky proposition for Karan Johar, by his own admission. But the game has paid off, what with the film doing well at the box office. But rather than rest on his laurels, Kjo has laready moved on to his next.
Instead of working on his father's unfinished project, he got busy making Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna and the script remained untouched. However, the story and the idea refused to let go of him. "The story kept coming back to me. It's an epic romance and my friends who've heard it kept telling me to make a film based on it. So after SOTY released, I decided I had to make this film."
Karan plans to fly out by end November just to write the script and will start shooting the film by November next year. In the last eight years or so, this is perhaps his quickest return to his original role of director.
"My father would have been baffled with everything I have achieved in the last eight years," says the prolific director-producer."I am proud to say I have launched 10 filmmakers with a success ratio of 80 percent. My father always wanted the company to grow bigger and make Dharma Productions a brand to reckon with. I guess I did a lot of it very fast, and he would have been very proud had he been alive,"says Karan.
Apart from this labour of love, there's a lot else happening in Karan's life. The filmmaker's new house is ready and Ritesh Deshmukh, who has done up the interiors, is busy lending finishing touches.
Asked if he is the proud owner of an entire building, he quips, "Itna lucky nahi hoon main. I have bought the top two floors of the building which is at Carter Road.My pad has a view of the sea and mom always wanted that!" The actor plans to move in along with his mother within the next three months.
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