Before Kajol, Here's Why Karan Johar Had A Fall Out With Kareena Kapoor Khan

The internet is exploring Karan Johar’s biography – An Unsuitable Boy, one chapter at a time!

After an ugly fall out story with Kajol, the latest celeb in question is Kareena Kapoor Khan. In an excerpt quoted by Bollywood Life, the filmmaker has thrown light on his argument with Bebo during the making of Kal Ho Na Ho. Apparently she was asking Karan for the same fee as SRK was charging, which was out of question for Karan. Bebo had just delivered a flop (Mujhse Dosti Karoge) with Kunal Kohli who was Adi Chopra’s assistant at Yash Raj. She claimed that newbie Nikhil Advani was no better which pinched K Jo and he decided to stop all conversations with her for almost 9 months, until she came to know about Yash Johar’s battle with cancer to console him.

The excerpt reads: “My first problem was with Kareena. She asked for too much money and we had some kind of a fallout at that time. Mujhse Dosti Karoge! had just released, directed by Kunal Kohli. She said, ‘Aditya Chopra’s assistant Kunal Kohli has made this flop, so Karan Johar’s assistant, Nikhil Advani is not to be trusted either’. The weekend of Mujhse Dosti Karoge’s release, I offered her Kal Ho Naa Ho, and she asked for the same money that Shah Rukh Khan was getting. I said, ‘Sorry’. I was very hurt. I told my father, ‘Leave that negotiation room’ and I called her. She didn’t take my call, and I said, ‘We’re not taking her.’ And we signed Preity Zinta instead. Kareena and I didn’t speak to each other for almost a year. For a year, we looked through each other at parties. It was very idiotic. She was a kid; she’s a decade younger than me.”

Karan added, “We were releasing Kal Ho Naa Ho in November. We had shot the film in June, July, August and in September I had to shoot the songs, make the promos and so on. So I had to head back, while my father continued the treatment in New York. That was the time Kareena Kapoor called me. It was August. We had not spoken for nine months. She called and said, ‘I heard about Yash uncle.’ She got really emotional on the phone, and she said, ‘I love you and I am so sorry I haven’t been in touch. Don’t worry.”

While he saved one friendship from biting dust, he unfortunately isn’t going to feel the same way for Kajol ever again!

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