Kal Ho Naa Ho Director Nikkhil Advani spills the beans over his fallout with Karan Johar
Kal Ho Naa Ho Director Nikkhil Advani spills the beans over his fallout with Karan Johar
Despite Director Nikkhil Advani garnering overnight fame with his magical film Kal Ho Naa Ho, sadly he wasn’t credited for his directorial debut.
Even as some didn’t even notice that KHNH wasn’t directed by Karan Johar, but it was Nikkhil who helmed the film, others just wondered if KJo ghost directed it. The two had a public fallout post the film, and recently the filmmaker made shocking revelations over his fallout in his life post.
In a media interaction, Advani revealed what went wrong to his career following his exit from Dharma Productions.
Nikhil was literally the wall amidst Karan Johar and others. He assisted him on Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham and later shouldered the responsibility to helm Kal Ho Naa Ho.
Nikhhil Advani directed Kal Ho Naa Ho, which was very close to Karan Johar’s heart.
In his autobiography,
An Unsuitable Boy, Karan revealed that he regrets not directing the film. Later in an interview Advani said, he doesn’t blame him for regretting it. He wrote it from his heart. But, he feels he underestimated himself, and thought that he won’t be able to do justice to it. Now when he says that, Nikhil feels his pain.
In an earlier interview Nikkhil Advani talked on.how Karan Johar and he both had egos in 2004, eventually leading to their fallout. But they started talking after Yash Johar’s death. In the same interview, the Salaam-E-Ishq director also revealed that he was very close to Karan and one of the people the filmmaker trusted a lot till people started telling things to both them about each other.
Interestingly, Nikkhil was KJo‘s school senior who later went to assist him in many of the Dharma films.
After he walked out of Dharma Productions, he directed, Salaam-E-Ishq-, Chandni Chowk To China, and Patiala House, as he wanted to prove he was the same man who directed Kal Ho Naa Ho. He finally achieved his calling with D-Day starring Rishi Kapoor and Irrfan in lead roles.
On the work front, Nikkhil was last credited as the creator of Sony Liv’s web series Rocket Boys. He produced the Rani Mukerji starrer Mrs Chatterjee Vs Norway. He last directed Batla House starring John Abraham.
News input KV Raman
