Karan Johar is playing an influential media mogul in Anurag Kashyap's upcoming film Bombay Velvet and the character is apparently on the lines of Rustom Khurshedji Karanjia, popularly known as Russi Karanjia, the founder-editor of Blitz, India's first weekly tabloid.
According to sources, Karan plays Kaizad Khambatta -- a quick-witted, impeccably dressed flamboyant journalist with a devil-may-care attitude. There is an uncanny resemblance to colourful and controversial newspaper baron who ruffled quite a few feathers with his fearless exposes and had the wit and gumption to feature an actress nude on the cover of the very first edition of his entertainment magazine, Cine Blitz.
Historian Gyan Prakash in his book paints him as: "He brashly promoted himself and his paper. During his long editorship of Blitz, he took many controversial and unpredictable positions. He railed against the powerful but was not averse to cozying up to those at
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