Karan Johar: “Everybody knows what my sexual orientation is”

Karan Johar has always been under scrutiny for his sexual orientation, expressing he doesn’t need to address the subject publicly. However for the first time the filmmaker has decided to put things straight, through a biography titled ‘The Unsuitable Boy’.

As Times of India reports on excerpts from the biography, Johar states, “Everybody knows what my sexual orientation is. I don’t need to scream it out. If I need to spell it out, I won’t only because I live in a country where I could possibly be jailed for saying this. Which is why I Karan Johar will not say the three words that possibly everybody knows about me.”

He went on to talk about what he went through during his earlier years, “While growing up, I was combating a hundred issues in my head. The thought of sex made me awkward; it almost rattled me. I thought, am I asexual? Why am I not feeling this? Why am I not doing anything? There was a lot of turbulence in my head. For me to address it, talk about it, discuss it, was a big no-no. I brushed it under the carpet all through the making of ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’ (1995) and ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai'(1998). At that time, I was also very large and was grappling with my weight issues. I felt physically undesirable.”

“Post ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’, I had actually started working a little on my looks. I had lost some weight and had groomed myself a bit. Finally, I had developed a little spring in my step, a little confidence,” he went on to add.

The biography includes more about Johar’s life where he talks more in detail about the issues on his sexual orientation as well as other aspects of his life.