First look: Meet Karan Johar, the all-bad guy

Never to do anything in half measure, the filmmaker-chat show host-general Bollywood diva is going all-black in Anurag Kashyap's Bombay Velvet. In the first look of the film shared by Johar on Twitter, he is looking everything his character Kaizad Khambatta is supposed to be

We have seen him in blink-and-you-miss-it appearances in films earlier but it is for the first time that Karan Johar will be starring in a full-fledged role.

And never to do anything in half measure, the filmmaker-chat show host-general Bollywood diva is going all-black in Anurag Kashyap's Bombay Velvet.

In the first look of the film shared by Johar on Twitter, he is looking everything his character Kaizad Khambatta is supposed to be - manipulative, devious and debonair.

"The villain in @anuragkashyap72 's #BombayVelvet… Kaizad Khambatta essayed by yours truly!!!," Karan tweeted.

Playing a businessman in the '60s Mumbai, Johar will be shown at loggerheads with Ranbir Kapoor's Johnny Balraj. The film also stars Anushka Sharma in a pivotal role.

Bombay Velvet is based on a Gyan Prakash book called Mumbai Fables. The film is a story of Bombay in the swinging '60s and the two protagonists -- a boxer, essayed by Kapoor, and an aspiring jazz singer, played by Sharma.

The film will hit theatres on May 15, 2015.

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