Karan Johar is a popular personality in the world of Indian entertainment. He is known for his versatile skills in the field of acting, writing, directing, producing, designing and also anchoring. A reputed anchor of the show `Koffee With Karan`, Johar is always in news because of its popularity.

Karan Johar is the only son of the late Yash Johar and was born on May 25, 1972 in India. Karan was a student of Greenlawns High School and later at H. R. College in Mumbai, India. Karan is also a Masters degree holder in French. Dharma Productions is his production company, which was founded by his father. Johar aimed at various activities like dress designing, scriptwriting, anchoring and also reporting but finally he joined his father`s Dharma Productions.

Career of Karan Johar
Karan Johar first appeared as an actor in the movie Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (1995); here he played the character of Shahrukh Khan`s close friend, Rocky. He was also the assistant director of this film and helped Aditya Chopra for the screenplay. This was the introduction, when Karan started to Shahrukh Khan`s costumes, something he always did for him in other movies like Dil To Pagal Hai (1997), Duplicate (1998), Mohabbatein (2000), Main Hoon Na and Veer-Zaara (2004).

The directorial debut of Karan Johar was in 1998 with Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. The film was a major box office hit. Kuch Kuch Hota Hai was awarded eight Filmfare Awards in 1998 including Best Movie, Best Director and all four Best Actor awards for both the leading and supporting roles. His second directorial effort was the multi-starrer family drama Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham. It was also highly successful film released in 2001. Abbreviated as K3G, this film won five Filmfare Awards.

In 2003, he produced and at the same time wrote the script for Kal Ho Naa Ho. Nikhil Advani, his assistant director from Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, directed this film. This film was also a box office hit. Eventually the career of Karan Johar proved to be a golden one in the Indian film industry. In early 2005, he produced another movie, named Kaal. It was directed by Soham Shah and was a hit amongst the horror series of Bollywood.

After taking a break of four years from directing, he began working on his third film as a director and the fourth film as scriptwriter in September 2005. Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, abbreviated as KANK, was released on August 11, 2006. It was a big hit in USA and UK but received a mixed response in India.

Johar is also considered as one of the most popular and mass friendly host. He started off as the anchor of a television chat show called Koffee with Karan sponsored by Star World, in which he interviews of celebrated personalities from Bollywood and India`s glamour world confronted the twisted and interesting questions of Johar. Karan describes his show to be a "casual, cooler and hipper" interview forum, aiming to attract the Indian fans of Bollywood. Bollywood favorites like Kajol, Rani Mukherjee, Hrithik Roshan Abhishek Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan have been invited to this show.

Johar has also hosted many film award ceremonies in India in the recent years. On September, 30th, 2006 Johar was honored to be the first Indian filmmaker to become a jury member in the Miss World competition, in Warsaw, Poland.

The Geneva-based World Economic Forum 2006 chose Karan Johar as one of 250 Global Young Leaders. He is believed to be one of the emerging India`s young thought leaders. He also participated and delivered a speech at the Wharton India Economic Forum held at the prestigious Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in New Delhi in November 2006.

Directorial Style of Karan Johar
Karan Johar`s movies are a collection that denotes difference of strokes and emotion. The films are generally classified as emotional melodramas and find a wide appeal among audiences in India and also abroad. The shooting locations are spellbinding and the entire glamour cannot be denied. His movies glorify the traditions and values of India. Although the films focus on the urban sections of India, they have a typical charm of its own that never make it monotonous.

Inspired by Yash Chopra`s approach of filmmaking, most of Johar`s films are graded high in the "feel good" and "glamorous realism" factor. Karan Johar movies constantly celebrate material luxuries and are distinguished by the elaborate sets, wonderful costumes and charming songs.

Karan Johar as a scriptwriter