Karan Johar slams podcasters for inviting guests with ‘nothing to lose’ who make ‘disrespectful’ comments about film industry: ‘This needs to stop!’

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In recent times, several celebrities have appeared on various podcasts and made unfiltered remarks about the film industry, often sparking controversies. Now, filmmaker Karan Johar has stepped forward, slamming such podcasters who invite guests and astrologers to say seemingly harmful and disrespectful things about people in showbiz. In a lengthy social media post, he also called out the practice of creating clickbait content to get more views, which needs to stop now.

Taking to his Instagram stories on Saturday, he wrote, “While I have utmost respect for credible and respectable members of the media! One sub-culture of podcasters (basically chat shows with new age terminology) who have emerged from the woodworks… woods that no GPS can locate… they invite guests who have nothing to lose. Who haven’t been invited since World War 2, and those guests spew venom and say the most disrespectful things about hardworking and legendary members of our fraternity!”

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Karan added, “This needs to stop! Also, psychics and astrologers giving awful and scary revelations, even about people’s impending death, is both insensitive and disgusting! Free speech? Yes. Clickbait for followers? No!!” The filmmaker, however, refrained from taking names of podcasters or hosts of any show.

Check out his Karan Johar’s post here:

Karan Johar's Instagram story on podcasters who invite guests and astrologers to make seemingly harmful and disrespectful remarks about people in showbiz. Karan Johar’s Instagram story on podcasters who invite guests and astrologers to make seemingly harmful and disrespectful remarks about people in showbiz.

Karan Johar’s son ‘doesn’t want to be launched’ by his father

Meanwhile, on Saturday, the filmmaker shared a funny video of his son Yash on social media, in which Yash was wearing a t-shirt, with the text ‘nepo baby’. In the clip, Karan said, “Oh my god, do you know what this t-shirt says, that you are nepo baby?” Yash responded, “Yeah, but I don’t want to be launched!” He then runs away, while Karan quips, “What! Who is launching you anyway?”

On the professional front, Karan Johar recently co-produced Dhadak 2, featuring Triptii Dimri and Sidhant Chaturvedi. The social drama was a remake of the Tamil film Pariyerum Perumal. He will also make a special appearance in Aryan Khan’s directorial debut The Ba***ds of Bollywood. The show will release on Netflix on September 18.

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