Strange But True: Yash Chopra, Rakesh Roshan & Karan Johar’s Fates Linked?

But then, Karan Johar took UTV as the distribution partner for his several films and sold My Name Is Khan to Hollywood studio Fox. Similarly, Rakesh Roshan sold his Kites to Reliance Big. Ever since the changes have happened, the films of all the three banners – Yash Raj Films (Yash Chopra), Filmkraft (Rakesh Roshan) and Dharma Productions (Karan Johar) – have not had consistently excellent or extraordinary runs at the ticket windows. Yash Chopra’s Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi worked big time but his films like Dil Bole Hadippa! failed to click. Karan Johar’s Kurbaan, My Name Is Khan and Wake Up Sid didn’t do the business which his earlier films like Kuch Kuch Hota Hai etc. did. Rakesh Roshan’s Kites, which Reliance Big Pictures reportedly bought for Rs. 110 crore (including the expenditure on promotion and prints), has also bombed.

So what does all this mean? That the kismat of Yash Chopra, Roshan and Johar are inter-linked? That their best comes out when Roshan and Johar have business dealings with Chopra? Interestingly, both, Rakesh Roshan and Karan Johar, have been making handsome under-production profits by selling their films to corporates, but at the box-office, their recent films don’t seem to have the magic of their earlier films.