Manish Malhotra recently shared how he became friends with Karan Johar and talked about his famous fight with KJo over a lehenga.
Manish Malhotra is a renowned Indian fashion designer. His designs have spread the magic not only in the world of fashion but also in Bollywood. To date, Manish is the first name that filmmakers want as the costume designer for their films. Recently, the 57-year-old sat for an interview and spoke at length about his association with the film industry.
While speaking on the We Are Yuvaa YouTube channel's talk show, Be A Man, Yaar!, Manish shared how he became friends with the popular filmmaker, Karan Johar. The designer revealed that he met Karan for the first time on the sets of the 1993 movie, Gumrah, which KJo’s father, Yash Johar, produced. Manish mentioned that he would often call Yash Ji's house, and Karan would pick up the call.
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Further, Manish shared that one day, Karan questioned him why he never said a 'Hi' to him, which made him realise his mistake. He then greeted KJo. The two crossed paths on the sets a few times, and one night, they decided to go out for dinner. Sharing how they bonded, Manish added:
"Whenever I used to call Yash ji with questions, Karan would pick up the phone. I would just say, ‘Can I speak with Yash ji?’ One day, he just told me, ‘You never say hi’. And I said, ‘Oh, I’m so sorry. Hi Karan, how are you, can I speak to Yash ji’. So it became like that. And then I met him a couple of times on set, and one night we decided to go out for dinner, and we chatted at that time. That’s how we became friends."
Meanwhile, Manish also highlighted Karan's love for all things fashion. He shared that the latter was very fond of his profession and recalled an incident when KJo interfered in his work. Manish designed Juhi Chawla's clothes in the film, Duplicate, which was produced by Karan's father. The fashion designer said that he went on to rebuke Karan for interfering in his work by saying, "Why are you interfering in the clothes? You’re just the producer’s son."
In the same conversation, Manish described Karan as a ‘very warm’ person and called their friendship ‘honest’. He also mentioned that he was grateful to be friends with the filmmaker because that helped him get in touch with Aditya Chopra, which in turn led him to bag an opportunity to work in Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge. Sharing how it isn't easy to work with KJo, Manish said:
"He makes the effort. Through him, I met Aditya Chopra. I’m grateful to Karan for that. Dilwale happened through him. Our relationship is honest. That’s a difficult thing. For friends to work together for that many years, it’s very rare. Because Karan is Karan Johar, and not a lot of people would be comfortable telling him if something doesn’t work."
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Manish Malhotra then went on to talk about a fight that he had with Karan over a lehenga. When asked if they really ‘had a pillow fight with a lehenga’, as KJo himself said earlier, the designer laughingly revealed that the filmmaker might have exaggerated the incident a bit. He shared that they did not throw the lehenga at each other.
He recalled the incident that happened while they were shooting for Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, and mentioned that he was hurt when KJo did not like his choice of lehenga. Manish revealed that his face started going red, and he left KJo's office when the lehenga might have banged the table. He said:
"No, we didn’t throw the lehenga at each other. Not at all! He’s just exaggerating. So, basically, I took this lehenga very excitedly to his office, and he looked at it and said, ‘This I don’t like’. I was personally hurt. My face started going red. I was very upset. And I just walked out from the office. I might have banged the lehenga on the table."
Check out the full interview here.
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