21. Book Review : An Unsuitable Boy : Inside look into Karan Johar's Life



So yesterday night I came home late and bought Karan Johar's book "An Unsuitable Boy" and started reading it. I was apprehensive about what it would be about but I found it a great read. It feels like that now I know Karan Johar as my next door neighbor. One of the reasons I liked the book was because the stories that were written in the book, I had grown up with those stories. I know Shahrukh Khan, Kajol, Aditya Chopra and everyone Karan knew like they were my buddies. I have grown up watching movies by Karan Johar and I always loved his films. Not any recent ones. There were so many things that I assumed about him. Like he was filthy rich and had a comfortable life. Well he was rich but to his own standards he was middle class, probably because he hadn't seen middle class. His love for Shahrukh and Aditya really moved me. I was really emotional reading what he thinks about Aditya Chopra. Karan i guess is someone who really wants someone really close to him. He is desperate to have closeness. I can understand that because when i was a kid, I would see other kids playing with their sisters and i really wanted a sister in my life. I never got one. I compensated by making other girls my sister but it never worked. They never loved me the way i wanted to be loved. I was possessive about them and was ready to stand with them but they were not. I was always a friend to them whom they also called brother. Blood is blood and nothing can compensate that.

Karan desperately tries to fall in love with people. He wants someone who is juts his and no one else but no one is ready to live for him. Everyone around him has their own life and soon they would move to their own life leaving him alone looking at them and waiting for them to come back, but they never did. Whatever he wrote has inspired me to make my own movie and has made my life really simple. If this guy has so much problems, then i am fucking so much lucky that i don't have any problems. I am fighting with anyone any day. I am just me and I can choose to live my life anyway I want. 

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