Karan Johar speaks on Vasan Bala’s comment on the Jigra script

Filmmaker Karan Johar breaks his silence on Vasan Bala’s comment on the Jigra script and also on Alia Bhatt.

For the first time, after director Vasan Bala’s comment on the Jigra script, filmmaker Karan Johar has spoken on the matter. The director’s recent comment about Karan sending his unfinished script to actor Alia Bhatt attracted a lot of headlines. Now, Karan Johar has spoken on the same.

Karan Johar pens a lengthy note reporting the misinterpretation of Vasan’s comment.

Karan Johar took to Instagram on Sunday and penned a lengthy note reporting the misinterpretation of Vasan Bala’s comment. In an interview with Tried&Refused Productions, Vasan said he was “really not happy” with Karan forwarding his ‘roughly drafted’ script of Jigra to Alia Bhatt without hygiene checks.

What did Karan Johar write in his note?

Karan Johar, on Instagram, shared a photo of a person placing their finger on their lips. The picture read, “We have to be strong to ensure our life is stable enough to shut some negative people’s mouth. –I’m, Salmiah.” Captioning the post, he wrote, “Twitter became X and became my X a while ago… I broke up with the nauseous noise and muted the unwarranted angst … but social media is like the Lockness (Loch Ness) monster it gets to you even when you can’t see it.. so was flooded with Vasan Bala’s interview, which he answered with pure innocence and so much love …”

The filmmaker talked about the misinterpretation of Vasan Bala’s comments.

He continued in the caption, “The gore misinterpretation of his comment about me sending the script to Alia without his grammar checks made me laugh initially at the ludicrousness of it all, but now is truly annoying me … Vasan continues to be one of my most talented and wonderful collaborators, and if you see his interview and hear his tone you will totally get it! BUT NO … much ado about nothing is all over the place…I fold my hands and tell everyone please hear and read entire interviews before making click bait assumptions. (Red heart emoji)! Loads of Love to all of you ….”

Vasan Bala, earlier in an interview, said, “I had sent one very kaccha pakka (roughly drafted) email, very stream of consciousness thought, sent it to Karan. I think six or seven hours later, he called saying, ‘I’ve already sent it to Alia.’ I was really not happy with it. I was like, ‘I would have at least done some spellcheck, grammar check, hygiene, written some very nice hero entry. So that email was sent, I was like, ‘Why did you do this?’ Karan said, ‘No, no, this is how it works.’” In the same interview, Alia Bhatt said, “So my first response to him after he sent me the first half was, ‘Where’s the second half?’ Because I said, ‘I’m not feeling complete. I need the second half.’ I chased him for one month for the second half, and then it came together.”

Jigra is set to hit the theatres on October 11.