Karan Johar is up there not because he is an insider, because his films are seen by millions: Ram Gopal Varma

Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma in a series of tweets slammed people who linked Sushant Singh Rajput's death by suicide with nepotism. People accused Karan Johar and he has been trending on social media pages for 'promoting' nepotism. Now, RGV defended Karan Johar via his tweets. He started by writing, "How politicians like Mulayam, Uddhav etc give sons, relatives first preference, Like how Dhirubhai will give all his monies to Mukesh, Anil, Like how all families will give their own families first preference similarly Bollywood families do same... So where’s nepotism not there?"

Varma also wrote, "Blaming @karanjohar for what happened is ridiculous and just shows a lack of understanding of how the film industry works... Even assuming Karan had a problem with Sushant it’s his choice of who he wants to work with, as its any filmmakers choice about who they want to work with."

He further tweeted, "If Sushant after 12 yrs of fame and money took his life because he was made to feel like an outsider then a 100 actors suicides per day will be justified who couldn’t reach anywhere near Sushant. If u can’t b happy with what u have u will never be happy with whatever u have. Period!"

Talking about Karan Johar, RGV penned, "Also all insiders of Bollywood were sometimes outsiders starting from @SrBachchan onwards ... @karanjohar is up there not because he is an insider but because his films are seen by millions... We all know as many failures coming from film families as much as from outside."

Check out his tweets below:

How politicians like Mulayam,Uddhav etc give sons, relatives first preference ,Like how Dhirubhai will give all his monies to Mukesh ,Anil ,Like how all families will give their own families first preference similarly Bollywood families do same ..So where’s nepotism not there ?

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) June 16, 2020

Blaming @karanjohar for what happened is ridiculous and just shows lack of understanding of how film industry works ..Even assuming Karan had a problem with Sushant it’s his choice of who he wants to work with,like its any film makers choice about who they want to work with

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) June 16, 2020

If Sushant after 12 yrs of fame and money took his life becos he was made to feel like an outsider then a 100 actors suicides per day will be justified who couldn’t reach anywhere near Sushant. If u can’t b happy with what u have u will never be happy with whatever u have.Period!

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) June 16, 2020

Also all insiders of Bollywood were sometimes outsiders starting from @SrBachchan onwards ..@karanjohar is up there not because he is an insider but because his films are seen by millions ..We all know as much failures coming from film families as much as from outside

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) June 16, 2020

No matter how many supposedly conspired to drive Sushant out (For what reason I can’t fathom when he can make money for them ) there were umpteen others wanting to work with him. ..But like it was his choice not to do with them,it’s the others choice not to work with him

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) June 16, 2020

And for all the sound being made on social media about the super talented guy being sidelined the truth is it’s the people who are watching the other actors more than sushant and @Karanjohar couldn’t be holding a gun to the audiences head

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) June 16, 2020

And if Sushant hung on ,then in about 15 or 20 years he would have become an insider when he’s launching his own son and some outsider Prashant would have blamed him like how everyone now is blaming @Karanjohar

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) June 16, 2020

Of the people who are venomously targeting @karanjohar partly they are outright ignorant of how things work in film industry and partly they hate his success and are just taking advantage of poor Sushanth’s death to vent their suppressed jealousy towards @karanjohar

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) June 16, 2020

Nepotism spoken in a negative context is a joke because entire society is based on only a family loving concept ..Should @iamsrk launch someone unknown instead of Aryan just because someone is more talented (in whose view is the point?)

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) June 16, 2020

Will any of the umpteen @karanjohar hating social media warriors chose anybody outside beyond their friends and families ??? It’s fundamental human nature to do only for the near and dear ones

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) June 16, 2020

And for all the hue and cry about the super talent being suppressed I will take a bet that 48 hours before now for many many months there wasn’t a single social media comment demanding to see Sushant from all the millions who are now blaming @karanjohar for not showing him

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) June 16, 2020

Talent is never an absolute but merely a perception based on various factors like different individuals,critics,box office etc and my proof is that two days before no one in the social media was crying hoarse why Sushant is not bigger than Ranveer Singh and Ranbir Kapoor

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) June 16, 2020

WITHOUT NEPOTISM SOCIETY WILL COLLAPSE BECAUSE NEPOTISM(FAMILIAL LOVE ) IS THE FUNDAMENTAL TENET OF A SOCIAL STRUCTURE..Like u shouldn’t love others wife more, u also shouldnt love others children more

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) June 16, 2020

Just want to say this to the ignorant social lynch mob that @karanjohar is a bigger victim in this context compared to their ill perceived and suddenly discovered victim Sushant

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) June 16, 2020

And my prediction is once this fake storm settles all the new outsiders from all over will still queue outside the insider @karanjohar ‘s office becos they know that the social media warriors can do nothing about creating work whereas Karan can provide actual work

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) June 16, 2020

Social media warriors can only create snap entertaining tweets for job less bored people, but people like @karanjohar @ektarkapoor #AdityaChopra etc can create actual physical work which will actually feed people

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) June 16, 2020

He concluded by tweeting, "And my prediction is once this fake storm settles all the new outsiders from all over will still queue outside the insider @karanjohar‘s office because they know that the social media warriors can do nothing about creating work whereas Karan can provide actual work."