{"id":33714,"date":"2024-04-23T18:28:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T18:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/23\/managing-india-awards-2024-karan-johar-wins-director-of-the-year-for-rocky-aur-rani-kii-prem-kahaani\/"},"modified":"2024-04-23T18:28:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T18:28:22","slug":"managing-india-awards-2024-karan-johar-wins-director-of-the-year-for-rocky-aur-rani-kii-prem-kahaani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/23\/managing-india-awards-2024-karan-johar-wins-director-of-the-year-for-rocky-aur-rani-kii-prem-kahaani\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing India Awards 2024: Karan Johar Wins Director Of The Year For Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"738\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2024-04\/tq7isqs_vicky-_625x300_23_April_24.jpeg?resize=1200,738&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Managing India Awards 2024: Karan Johar Wins Director Of The Year For Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani\" title=\"Managing India Awards 2024: Karan Johar Wins Director Of The Year For Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">Filmmaker Karan Johar receives the director of the year award<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">New Delhi: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Filmmaker Karan Johar on Tuesday said producer Aditya Chopra and superstar Shah Rukh Khan are the &#8220;two pillars&#8221; in his life to whom he owes his 25-year career in cinema.<\/p>\n<p>Johar assisted and featured in a brief role in Chopra&#8217;s hit directorial debut <em>Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge<\/em>, the 1995 musical romance film starring Khan and Kajol. Three years later, both the actors fronted<em> Kuch Kuch Hota Hai <\/em>which marked Johar&#8217;s beginning as a director.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was also part of my destiny to have met Aditya Chopra and Shah Rukh Khan. Two pillars, two reasons why I sit here today. They acknowledged something about me that I didn&#8217;t see in myself. I will always be grateful to them for that. The rest was a lot of just passion&#8230; I may have been as sincere as I was. But what happens when you don&#8217;t have people who are in powerful positions like that? &#8220;You can make it entirely on your own still because your belief system can be strong enough to combat all odds. But I was fortunate that my struggles came later. My first step was because two people who are not related to me by blood or family believed in me strongly. It has a lot to do with destiny, but nothing happens without hard work,&#8221; the filmmaker said.<\/p>\n<p>Johar was in the national capital to attend the All India Management Association (AIMA)&#8217;s ninth National Leadership Conclave, where he was honoured with the &#8216;director of the year&#8217; award for 2023&#8217;s <em>Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The 51-year-old, who sat down for a fireside chat at the event, looked back at his career, mistakes, failures, and the role of cinema in society.<\/p>\n<p>Not just Khan and Chopra, Johar &#8212; son of late producer Yash Johar &#8212; said it&#8217;s not easy to maintain a professional outlook when one is working with actors one looked up to while growing up like Amitabh Bachchan, who starred in his home banner Dharma Productions films such as <em>Dostana <\/em>(1980) and <em>Agneepath<\/em> (1990).<\/p>\n<p>Johar shared an interesting anecdote about directing Bachchan for the first time in his second directorial venture <em>Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember I fainted a day before directing him&#8230; I am grateful to Amit uncle for allowing me to be a director, give instructions,&#8221; he recalled.<\/p>\n<p>The director, also known for films such as <em>Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna, My Name is Khan<\/em>, and last year&#8217;s hit &#8220;Rocky Aur Rani&#8230;&#8221;, said he doesn&#8217;t believe in resting on past laurels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you can deal with failure and success in the same way, you will always be a successful human being. That doesn&#8217;t mean you equate success with just money. You equate that with self happiness and what you&#8217;re feeling within. I acknowledge failure, I accept and embrace it. I also analyse it, and I move on. But the thing I move on the fastest from is success, because resting on our laurels is wasting a whole lot of time,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Recalling Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s comments on films being soft power, Johar said cinema is &#8220;an enormously impressionable medium&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are an impressionable soft power when we can connect to millions of people through our communication. We have, time and again, realised the ramifications of what&#8217;s good and what&#8217;s bad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have tremendous power and therefore, with tremendous power comes tremendous responsibility&#8230; What we project, what we say, you have to account for it with some amount of salt and sensitivity because people take the said word seriously,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>One film, he said, cannot change the fabric of society but cinema can highlight big issues like women empowerment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nothing happens overnight, but I believe the consciousness of our society has been enhanced considerably by what cinema has projected in the last decade or a decade and a half. Of course, there&#8217;s a flip (side) to that as well. There have been films that continue to kind of be harmful. But I hope those filmmakers realise the importance of the platform they have and their voice,&#8221; Johar added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/entertainment\/part-of-my-destiny-to-have-met-aditya-chopra-shah-rukh-khan-karan-johar-5506402#publisher=newsstand\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filmmaker Karan Johar receives the director of the year award New Delhi: Filmmaker Karan Johar on Tuesday said producer Aditya Chopra and superstar Shah Rukh Khan are the &#8220;two pillars&#8221; in his life to whom he owes his 25-year career in cinema. 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