The upcoming season of Koffee With Karan will be the final one, host-filmmaker Karan Johar himself has confirmed the same. Curtains are set to fall on one of Indian television’s most iconic shows.
We go down memory lane and round up five of the most controversial moments of the chat show: Episode 16, season five is the big one- which kickstarted the entire nepotism debate across the country. Because of their appearance on Koffee With Karan, on episode 12 of the sixth season, cricketers KL Rahul and Hardik Pandya’s cricketing careers almost ended. Because of his association with the episode, kL Rahul got into trouble largely.
“This is more of an emotional message than a professional announcement… this show gave me so much. I have reached a point in life where I realise all good things must come to an end. As referenced by Karan himself in the video, Koffee With Karan has given us countless headlines- be it getting ex lovers together, or raising a storm with its content. Kangana Ranaut had come with her Rangoon co-star Saif Ali Khan, and ended up referring to Karan as ‘movie mafia, flagbearer of nepotism’. Before these, she insinuated that the ‘rejections, mocking’ by Karan were a ‘driving force’ in her career. There was a massive controversy over the interaction. It was the third episode of the third season, when then-contemporaries Deepika Padukone and Sonam Kapoor appeared together. During the episode, both made bitter remarks about Ranbir Kapoor, who had been in a relationship with Deepika till some time back. Reportedly Ranbir’s parents, actors Neetu Kapoor and late Rishi Kapoor were upset when the episode aired. The Board of Control for Cricket in India wasn’t amused: they suspended both the players provisionally, and fined them as well. Both the cricketers later apologised.
With a very heavy heart I say this will be the last season of Koffee With Karan,” he said in the accompanying video. She even said if she ever made a biopic, he would play the Bollywood biggie who looks down on outsiders. Karan, later in the same year, mocked the accusation at an awards show on stage, where he, along with Varun Dhawan and Saif said ‘Nepotism rocks! Sonam, who had also initially been linked to him, said she wasn’t sure if Ranbir was good as a boyfriend, while Deepika said she would want to gift him ‘a box of condoms’. Hardik said he proudly told his family after losing his virginity ‘aaj main kar ke aaya hai’. When asked if they would both date the same woman, Hardik said ‘It’s based on talent; whoever gets her takes her’.
He took to Instagram on Wednesday to confirm the same. It led to such massive backlash that as of today, it is no longer available on JioHotstar.
Actor Emraan Hashmi and uncle, filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt’s episode was loaded with a lot of content. It was the ninth episode of the fourth season. The fans of the actress criticised the remark while it blew up.
One remark stood out in particular: during a rapid fire, when asked to name any one person from the industry who came to mind when he said ‘plastic’, Emraan, without batting an eyelid, took Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s name.
