An Unsuitable Boy by Karan Johar & Poonam Saxena

Author:Karan Johar & Poonam Saxena [Johar, Karan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789385990939
Publisher: Random House Publishers India Pvt. Ltd.
Published: 2017-01-08T22:00:00+00:00

Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna was also the toughest shoot in my life. We were combating weather. It was too big an outdoor project; it was Apoorva’s first big film. We were all a bit lost. And we were doing all this without my father. Everything that could go wrong was going wrong. There were production issues. I was learning, Apoorva was learning. It was at that juncture that Apoorva even questioned his decision to come back. He felt it was impacting our friendship, which he felt was more important to him than anything else. His position, the money, the status or the power, nothing could ever override the affection and friendship that we’d shared up to that point for nearly twenty-five years.

He kept telling me, ‘Karan, I am losing the friend I have in you.’

We were close friends but what happened was that he began instilling anxiety and fear in me. He was the one coming to me with all the bad news since he was the one in charge. And I just wanted to block that part because I wanted to direct the film. I was trying to run away from all the problems he was bringing.

He told me, ‘Listen, I have to address these problems. It’s not all good times, you know, there will be stresses.’

In the running of a shoot abroad, it is so easy to have a production meltdown. Some requirements are sometimes not met. When I wrapped up a shoot, I didn’t want to meet him because he would tell me about all the problems and issues, and I was too used to my father taking care of them and not bringing them to me. But why should Apoorva do that? We were equal in age. I, too, had to shoulder them. I didn’t have my father any more but subconsciously I was looking for that person who would take charge like my father used to. But Apoorva was also learning on the job, it was not his fault. And he needed me on board. I had to tell him, don’t do this, do this, because I knew the industry better, he didn’t. Now he knows everything. But then it was his first time.

We had a long chat at that time where he felt that ‘nothing is worth losing a friendship. It’s not what I want. I’ll go back.’

I said, ‘You can’t do that. I need you.’ I had nobody else.

So we went through that phase. I realized that when you work with somebody on a daily basis, it is tough to go back to being the best friends that you know you are. Especially when there is a different dynamic. Now I was the one leading the company, and Apoorva was working for me. Though he was doing much more than I was in terms of day-to-day modalities, etc., there was a shift in the dynamics. I had to address that.

We have managed to work together over the years, but it has been at the cost of our friendship.

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