Karan Johar uploaded a video on his Instagram, where he can be seen talking to Kirron Kher about the traditional headgears
Filmmaker Karan Johar is facing outrage on social media and is being trolled as netizens slam him for allegedly 'insulting' the culture and the traditional headgears of the people of the Northeast.
Karan uploaded a video clip on his Instagram handle on November 10, shot during the show India's Got Talent, where he and actress-politician Kirron Kher along with actress Malaika Arora are co-judges.
The video shows Kirron Kher wearing a spiked bamboo Arunachalee hat and the Takht director exclaiming, "oh my god, what is that on your head?"
On this Kher replied saying, "People from Arunachal Pradesh have brought it for me and they have got this for you," showing him an Assamese 'Japi', traditional hat made of bamboo, dried leaves and pieces of coloured cloths.
To her query- "Why are you not wearing your hat," Karan Johar is heard replying, "Because you have guts, I don't."
The filmmaker jocularly continues, "You are looking you are going to break into some kind of qawwali."
The BJP MP quips back, "How can I break into a qawwali in a bamboo hat. What's wrong with you? You don't know the states of this country."
Check out the video here:
One netizen, responded to Karan Johar's video clip saying, "Our Prime Minister, President wear this Japi proudly when they visit northeast and they are leaving no stones unturned for the development of Northeast. At that time there are people like you who actually don't know about NorthEast and are actually insulting our culture".
Japi is the "pride of Assam", insisted another Instagram user.
"So plz if u can not love it dn u dont have right to insult itpeople of north east has verry rich culture. U can think us junghli but we are not (sic)," another post said.
Yet another agitated Instagram user remarked, "Japi from Assam, it's our emotion. Yahh no doubt you don't know about Japi because this Assamese tradition is bigger than your film industry And I have a free advice to you, please come to our Northeast and we'll teach you how we can wear Japi without having the gut (sic)".
Meanwhile, Karan Johar will be back on the director's chair with period drama Takht, which stars Kareena Kapoor Khan, Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhatt, Vicky Kaushal, Janhvi Kapoor, Anil Kapoor and Bhumi Pednekar.
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