When Karan Johar’s Father Didn’t Approve His Idea Of Assisting Aditya Chopra On His First Film ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’ & Said, “Assist Yash Chopra, He’s A Big Man…”

Karan Johar is one of the most established directors in Bollywood and comes from a legendary family where his father, Yash Johar, was a renowned director and producer and made some of the most iconic films of Hindi cinema. Today, we bring you a throwback to when KJo told his father Yash that he wanted to assist Aditya Chopra with his first film ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’ starring Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol and his father’s reaction to it. Scroll below to read the scoop!

This is from when Aditya was about to direct his first-ever film ‘DDLJ’ which, little did everyone know, turned out to be a massive hit at the box office. It is one of the most iconic films in the history of Indian cinema, and Mumbai’s Maratha Mandir has been successfully running it for over 27 years.

In an interview with Karan Thapar once, Karan Johar recalled an anecdote about the time when he told his father he wanted to assist Aditya Chopra with ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’. He revealed how Aditya approached him for the same and said, “One fine day, he said now that you have been so closely associated with the screenplay, why don’t you assist me? I told him I can’t make a Hindi film. It’s not in me. I can’t direct a film. He said, ‘think about it; you have it in you.’”