"I want to take a break from the show. It has another 11 shows to go after which I won’t be doing it for the time being," said Karan Johar who was in the city for the launch of a high-end luxury brand store for men, for which he is the brand ambassador.
However, he was quick to add that he won’t be out of the silver screen completely, as he would be doing another show for a TV channel. "My next show would be based on a similar concept," he said.
Johar, who is now the only Bollywood director who is essaying a variety of roles ranging from a chat show host to walking down the ramp and being on the cover page of a fashion magazine besides being a brand ambassador now, adds, it’s not planned. Things just happen and I enjoy it."
Question him on chances of him facing the camera and he says, "Why do you want people to suffer seeing me facing the cameras. But I don’t mind it either."
He further adds, "Now, I will go and ask directors to give me chance to act in their movies," besides jokingly adding, "I cant act in Ram Gopal Verma's movies as he makes gritty ones and it does not go with my style."
Koffee with Karan has seen lot of celebrities talking about issues that they otherwise wont like to make public. He explains this phenomenon by saying, "I am friendly with all of them. I have known them for a very long time so when a friend is interviewing them, they tend to be really frank and open up."
He adds, "The best guest on my show has been Rakhi Sawant who really impressed me because she speaks her mind and is very bold."
Disputing any rivalry between Amitabh Bachchan and Sharukh Khan (SRK), he says, "I know both of them and they have tremendous respect for each other so all the talk of rivalry is pure gossip."
When asked about SRK, he says, "He is on the top. He is the best actor of the Indian film fraternity. His off-screen presence is as amazing as his on-screen and that is why he can connect to people," adding that Aamir Khan is an actor with whom he has never worked and would like to in the future.
Johar who is currently working on the script of his next movie, which will start rolling early next year, says, "I make movies about issues, which I feel about. When I made Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham , I felt for something else and now I feel about a different issue."