Karan Johar denies rift in his friendship with Shah Rukh Khan

Director-producer Karan Johar and megastar Shah Rukh Khan have shared a long-standing friendship. The two have forever shared mutual respect and have showered each other’s work with praise from time to time. Karan and Shah Rukh have also worked together more than once with the director roping in the actor for the lead role in all of his directorial ventures except his most recent film, Student of the Year. Shah Rukh Khan has starred in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham (2001), Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006) and My Name Is Khan (2010) and has jointly produced the film Student of the Year with Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions.

Despite all of this however, recent rumors of a rift between the two surfaced. Karan Johar however denies it all saying, "Aditya Chopra and Shah Rukh are the two reasons I am in the industry. Shah Rukh is like my older brother, and I am bound to him for emotional, spiritual and professional reasons. Like wine, he keeps getting better with age.” The director also went all out with praise for Shah Rukh’s recent film by the late Yash Chopra titled Jab Tak Hai Jaan "From Kuch Kuch Hota Hai to MNIK or even Jab Tak Hai Jaan... he has grown in strength, stature. The intensity and maturity with which he performed his role of a lover and soldier in Jab Tak Hai Jaan speaks of a man who has seen life,” added Karan.

For Karan Johar, the Shah Rukh Khan he knows on-screen is unlike the person he knows in real life. The director said, "I always tell him, his off-screen persona makes him a bigger star than his on-screen presence. It would be exciting for any filmmaker to work with him now." One thing’s for sure. There’s no breaking Shah Rukh Khan and Karan Johar’s bonds of friendship!

Karan Johar and Shah Rukh Khan’s friendship remains unbreakable

Rumor-mills have forever been spinning yarns and some of the most recent gossip to make headlines is an ongoing rift in director Karan Johar and Shah Rukh Khan’s friendship. The two have been close friends since a while now and have worked together in several blockbusters before including Karan Johar’s directorial ventures like Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham (2001), Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006) and My Name Is Khan (2010). In all of these films, Shah Rukh Khan has starred in the lead and has been termed as Karan Johar’s lucky charm. For his most recent film titled Student of the Year, Karan decided to rope in a newcomer cast, one of the reasons that sparked of false rumors of a fallout.

"Adi (Aditya Chopra) and Shah Rukh are the two reasons I am in the industry. Shah Rukh is like my older brother, and I am bound to him for emotional, spiritual and professional reasons," said Karan Johar however, pushing these rumors to the ground. Just recently, the director spent a vacation with Shah Rukh Khan and his family in the United Kingdom. “I am here to spend time with Aryan and Gauri. Shah Rukh, Gauri and I are a unit that has evolved beyond the realms of the film fraternity,” said Karan speaking from London.

While Shah Rukh Khan might not have made an appearance in Karan’s latest film, he has co-produced Student of the Year under his Red Chillies Entertainment banner with Dharma Productions.