Karan Johar’s warning to his filmmaker friends in the ongoing battle between the mediums of films and television
Along with juggling film production and direction, Karan Johar is also a known name on television thanks to his talk show Koffee With Karan and his judging of dance/talent-based reality shows and the like.
It was all about the money being offered at first, but now, KJo schedules his shoots around his TV shows. “Very clearly, I have no problem facing the camera. I initially did it because they were paying really well, but I have to say I started enjoying it.
ventually I enjoyed judging Jhalak Dikhla Jaa and India’s Got Talent. Both shows have an amazing connect. Wherever I travel in the country, people don’t come and talk to me about the movies I made. At the time of Jhalak, they would only want to know who was winning or talk to me about Koffee With Karan. And I am like, ‘Dude I make movies, will someone ask me about my films?’”
Though he is partial to films, Karan is of the opinion that TV will soon overtake films as medium of choice. Films, he feels, will remain elusive, but TV has a far bigger connect. He says, “TV has an infinite reach and even as we speak, it is hitting the roof. I think it is going to be the most powerful tool in the country.
All of us in cinema, better pull up our socks because let me tell you, we are fighting television. We don’t know it and we think no end of ourselves. We think films are a superior medium and we all need a reality check. Yes, cinema is great and it has some exotic-ness, beauty and dynamism attached to it that you can never take away, but the ground reality is that television is winning this battle.”
On a lighter vein though, he adds that his mother is most happy with him being on both mediums as she loves television. She is hooked to the small screen, so much so, that he has to actually struggle to make conversation with his mother during prime-time. “Oh, she loves it. She is the consumer that makes television what it is. Her prime-time starts at 7 pm and goes on till 2 in the morning. I talk to my mother during commercial breaks. Our conversation is limited to that,” he says.
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