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Karan Johar: Neither I nor Dharma Productions can be made responsible for what people do in their personal lives

Last year, Karan Johar had shared a video of a party that took place at his house in Mumbai. The party was attended by many big names from Bollywood like Varun Dhawan, Shahid Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor, Vicky Kaushal, Zoya Akhtar, Deepika Padukone, Malaika Arora, and others.

Well, the video became viral on social media, and on Twitter, a politician posted that these celebs were under the influence of drugs. In 2019, Karan had given a clarification that there were no drugs at his party.


However, in the current scenario, when Bollywood celebs are under the scanner of NCB, the video of Karan’s party has once again become the talk of the town. Even there were reports that two employees of Karan’s Dharma Productions have been summoned for investigation by NCB.

Last night, finally, Karan broke his silence and shared a statement on social media about the whole scenario. In the statement, the filmmaker has stated, “Certain news channels, print/ electronic media and social media platform(s) are wrongly and misleadingly reporting that narcotics were consumed at a party that I, Karan Johar hosted on July 28, 2019 at my residence. I had already clarified my position way back in 2019 that the allegations were false. In view of the current malicious campaign, I am reiterating that the allegations are completely baseless and false. No narcotics substance was consumed in the party. I WOULD LIKE TO UNEQUIVOCALLY ONCE AGAIN STATE THAT I DO NOT CONSUME NARCOTICS AND I DO NOT PROMOTE OR ENCOURAGE CONSUMPTION OF ANY SUCH SUBSTANCE. All these slanderous and malicious statements, news articles and news clippings have unnecessarily subjected me, my family, and my colleagues, and Dharma Productions, to hatred, contempt and ridicule."

“I would like to further state that several media / news channels have been airing news reports that Kshitij Prasad and Anubhav Chopra are my "aides" / "close aides". I would like to place on record that I do not know these individuals personally and neither of these two individuals are "aides" or "close aides". NEITHER I, NOR DHARMA PRODUCTIONS CAN BE MADE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT PEOPLE DO IN THEIR PERSONAL LIVES. THESE ALLEGATIONS DO NOT PERTAIN TO DHARMA PRODUCTIONS. I wish to further state that Mr. Anubhav Chopra is not an employee at Dharma Productions. He was briefly associated with us for only two months in the capacity of 2nd assistant director for a film, between November 2011 and January 2012 and as assistant director for the short film in January 2013. He has thereafter never been associated with Dharma Productions for any other project. Mr. Kshitij Ravi Prasad joined Dharmatic Entertainment (sister concern of Dharma Productions) in November 2019 as one of the executive producers on contract basis for a project which eventually did not materialise. However, in the past few days, the media has resorted to distasteful, distorted and false allegations. I hope the members of the media would exercise restraint else I will be left with no option but to legally protect my rights against this baseless attack on me. – Karan Johar,” he added.

Meanwhile, NCB has summoned Deepika Padukone, Sara Ali Khan, and Shraddha Kapoor for investigation. All three actresses are being questioned today.

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