Karan Johar: Kalank was a global disaster

Karan Johar is one producer who is not shying away from taking the responsibility of delivering a flop like Kalank. When the 47-year-old producer announced his most-ambitious project ever in 2018, all eyes were on the magnujm opus. From the looks of it, it had everything - a great star cast, opulent sets and great music. But a weak storyline and excess dosage of gloss worked against it. And the film fizzled out at the box office.

At India Today Conclave Mumbai 2019, Karan Johar was asked about being the numero uno in Bollywood, courtesy his production house Dharma Productions. To which, he replied, " We just released a film that was a global disaster [Kalank]. It was a setback for us."

He said that drawing comparisons between Dharma Productions and Yash Raj Films is innocent because it is the writers who are the real king.

"I don't think that anyone is larger than other. Everyone is doing their bit. All the big ticket films have not proved their worth. It is no longer about big actors or sets attracting the audience but the content. Writers are the strongest in cinema these days. We are in an industry that is acknowleding writers," added Karan Johar.

Karan, who has been in the industry for long, said that no one should consider themselves to be a superstar. It is the audience who is the superdstar in the true sense.

"They will come to you if you give them strong content. If our film has failed at the box office, then we have given them [audience] something wrong," added KJo.

Kalank, which was made on a budget of Rs 150 crore and had big names like Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt, Aditya Roy Kapur, Madhuri Dixit, Sanjay Dutt and Sonakshi Sinha to back it, failed miserably at the ticket window. Despite a good opening, it failed to even cross the Rs 100-crore mark.

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