Karan Johar, in a new interview, shared how he injected some of own insecurities in Tota Roy Choudhury’s character in his latest release, Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani.
Karan Johar‘s latest release Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani has managed to impress the audience and is enjoying a good run at the box office. In a recent interview, the filmmaker shared that he poured some of his own life experiences into the character of Rani’s father which was portrayed by Tota Roy Chowdhury.
In the film, Choudhury’s character is also a Kathak dancer. A sequence features him getting mocked for performing at a sangeet hosted by a Punjabi family. Karan, in a new interview, shared that this part came from his own life experiences. The filmmaker said that while his father always supported him when he would dance to Sridevi and Jaya Prada’s songs in his youth, he discovered after going to college that people weren’t going to always be as kind.
KJo shared, “(The idea was) to subvert it, because it’s also about the things I believe in personally. As a child, I was very effeminate, and I used to dance in my own room to Hindi film songs, to Lata ji’s songs. My dad thought it was great. My father used to watch me dance to Jaya Prada’s parts in ‘Dafli Wale’ and clap. Every time his friends came over, he would put on the song and ask me to dance for everybody. And no one told me there was anything wrong with that. I grew up thinking this is fine.”
