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KJo apologises for nepotism comment during IIFA 2017

Karan Johar caused controversy over the weekend when he dragged the nepotism controversy up again, along with Saif Ali Khan and Varun Dhawan, on the IIFA stage in New York.

To make matters worse, he linked the nepotism row once again to Kangna Ranaut. In an interview with NDTV, he said, “This is something I need to say to clarify, of course I don’t believe that nepotism rocks. I believe that only talent rocks. If anything that rocks, it’s your talent, hard work and conviction. It’s the energy you bring to your job. What we said was meant to be a joke, I think it was misplaced, misunderstood and I think we went wrong.”

The nepotism row erupted during ‘Koffee With Karan’, where Ranaut branded Johar “the flag bearer of nepotism” in the Indian film industry. Talking about this, he said, “No matter what I say or feel about my issues with what Kangana said on my talk show Koffee with Karan, I think I was raised to be a dignified, a chivalrous and a decent person. That’s the upbringing that I was given and I feel that I failed on those accounts. I felt that no matter what my thoughts or personal issues on this, I should not have repeatedly brought that up. For that I am deeply regretful.”

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