KJo opens up about rumoured sexual fling with SRK

Despite being one the tightest of friends, Karan Johar and Shah Rukh Khan have always been dogged with rumours that their has been some sort of sexual involvement between the two.

While the two have never spoken about the silly hearsay, Johar has opened up about this very topic in his upcoming biography ‘An Unsuitable Boy’. In the book, there’s an excerpt, which refers to the ongoing rumours. He said, “Today, people think that I have all the possible avenues to have all the sex in the world. But that’s not who I am at all. To me, sex is a very, very personal and a very intimate feeling. It’s not something that I can do casually, with just about anyone. I have to invest in it…. I’ve always handled the rumours that came my way.

“There has been so much conjecture about my sexuality. For heaven’s sake, for years there were rumours about Shah Rukh and me. And I was traumatized by it. I was on a show on a Hindi channel, and I was asked about Shah Rukh.’Yeh anokha rishta hai aap ka,’ the interviewer said. He worded it in such a way that I got really angry. I said, ‘If I asked you if you are sleeping with your brother, how will you feel?’ So he said, ‘What do you mean?’

“‘How can you ask me this question?’ I said, ‘How could you ask me this question?’ For me, no matter what ups and downs Shah Rukh and I have been through, he is a father figure, an older brother to me. For me to look at him in that way or be subjected to those rumours was just ridiculous. But it didn’t bother him. He said, ‘People talk nonsense, and if a man does not have an extramarital affair, he is supposed to be gay.'”

In the book, Johar also talks about India’s regressive approach towards homosexuality.