Karan Johar Slams This Famous Comedian For 'Poor' Mimicry Of Him: Comedian Apologises

A comedian's mimicry of Karan Johar on a TV show has left the Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani director visibly upset. It so happened that on Sunday night, Karan Johar shared a statement on his Instagram stories and talked about a comedian mimicking him "in poor taste." He recounted the experience while he was watching television with his mother. Without name-checking the show or the comedian, Karan Johar wrote, "I was sitting and watching television with my mom…and saw a promo of a reality comedy show on a supposedly respectable channel… a comic was mimicking me in exceptionally poor taste…I expect this from trolls and faceless and nameless people but when your own industry can disrespect someone who has been in the business for over 25 years it speaks volumes about the times we live in…this doesn't even anger me it just makes me sad!”

Film producer and a dear friend of Karan Johar, Ektaa Kapoor shared his statement on her Instagram Stories and extended her support. “Happened so many times! Ugly humour sometimes on shows. And even at award functions. And then they expect you to attend! Karan please ask them to imitate one movie or classic of yours,” Ekta wrote. Karan reposted the story and replied, “Love you Ektu.”

Even though the director did not name the comedian in his post, many social media users on reddit attempted to decode Karan Johar's cryptic post. Many guessed he was talking about Kettan Singh, a comedian on Sony TV's comedy show Madness Machayenge basis a promo recently shared by Sony Entertainment Television. In the promo, comedian Kettan Singh can be seen mimicking the director and calling his chat show Koffee With Karan by the name Toffee with Churan.

Earlier, the filmmaker shared a cryptic post on Instagram in which he wrote about current box office trends. "Bada scale chahiye toh wo banaao. Action chali. Action banaao! Love story chali toh love story banaao! Chick flick hit hui toh wahan jaao! Mausam har hafte badalta hai... conviction har hafte marta hai! Box office hai bhaiya, Instagram reel nahi... 30 second ki trending mein reh jaaoge wahin ke wahin." (If a big scale project works, make one, Action films works, make action. If a love story does well, make a love story. If a chick flick is a hit, make that. The weather changes every week. It's box office, not a 30-second Instagram reel.. that will remain in trending)."

Karan Johar returned to direction after many years with the film Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani last year. Now he is all set to produce Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari with Janhvi Kapoor and Varun Dhawan and an untitled project with Kartik Aaryan.

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Kettan told Times Now in an interview that his intention was never to hurt Karan., "I would like to apologise to Karan (Johar) sir. First of all, whatever impersonation I do because I watch a lot of Karan Johar on the coffee show, I am a fan of his work. I have seen his latest film, Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani 5 to 6 times. I am a huge fan of his work and his show. If my actions hurt him, I would like to apologise to him. My intention was not to hurt him. I just wanted to entertain audience but if I did something extra, I would like to say sorry to him."

Kettan said Karan likely did not watch the full episode but just the promo. “I would like to see the reactions of people and Karan sir after watching the episode. I don't want to offend, sir. Many artists don't mimic Karan sir. I used to do it a couple of years ago on The Kapil Sharma Show. I did it for the first time on Madness Machayenge. Apart from my apology, I am not thinking of anything else,” he said.