Now... it’s all about loving the children: Karan Johar’s first interview after becoming a father

HT Brunch accompanies Karan Johar to office on his first day at work after a two-month paternity leave. The filmmaker chats about fatherhood, its joys and challenges, and baby poop!

To get Karan Johar to bare his soul, you must have coffee with him. I do that on Good Friday afternoon, at his Dharma Productions office in suburban Mumbai. But the man sitting opposite me, dreamily sipping a tall, cold Caffe Frappuccino, is not Sunday night’s stylishly-attired hotshot impresario of India’s most watched celebrity chat show. Karan looks zoned out. And sleep deprived.

Filmmaker Karan Johar feels fatherhood is a breathtaking ride(Rohan Shrestha)

For Karan Johar, now it is all about loving the children. (Sayan Mukherjee)

“I’m going to bring Roohi and Yash to the office. Why not! Aren’t they productions of Dharma Productions? . I want them to be all over the place.”

“I took my babies straight into the room where my father’s picture is placed. When I saw their reflection in the glass, merging with his image, I closed my eyes in gratitude and experienced the awe of the moment.”

“I have an entire library of books on baby care. I haven’t read any of them!” (Rohan Shrestha)

“I was ready for fatherhood. But was I prepared for twins? I was ready for triplets!”

Karan feels he could give paranoid mothers a master class. (Sayan Mukherjee)

“People have been dropping in non-stop to see them, they come in shifts, and I’ve been running around serving them tea and snacks. Alia Bhatt comes every other day and sits for hours.”