'What the Love' host Karan Johar is "playing cupid" in this new dating reality show. But who is the filmmaker? Plus, is Karan Johar homosexual? Details!
If you might be at all desirous about matchmaking, cheesy dating displays, and/or Desi tradition, Netflix's new What the Love! with Karan Johar is A hundred % the reality show for you.
Personally, I'm already obsessed. It's type of the absolute best mix of recoil and heartwarming, and because I at all times like to stay my finger on the pulse of what's getting made in Bollywood, I determined to give it a shot.
You guys should actually watch it too, so I don't want to start by way of giving an excessive amount of away just yet. Instead, let me just stick to providing you with a style of the series and informing you about what you need to know about the What the Love host, Karan Johar.
How does 'What the Love' paintings?
Rest confident, the terrible identify of the show is some distance from the cheesiest thing about this show, however the fact that everyone's leaning in to the cheese is what makes it somewhat obsession-worthy, IMHO.
No, it's not some high-falutin idea show like The Circle — What the Love is in fact in reality, in reality elementary. Host Karan Johar arrives at a party of singles ("singletons" as they're referred to as on the show) and picks a handful to make over and make "ready for love."
Along with fashion knowledgeable Maneka Harisinghani, and make-up and hair marketing consultant Shaan Muttathil, Karan's "first step is to focus on the struggle within them and identify what is holding them back from finding love."
In different words, it's kind of like if a dating show met Netflix's Queer Eye, and it's superb.
Who is host Karan Johar?
For Indian audiences, Karan Johar, affectionately identified in the neighborhood as KJo, wishes no introduction. He's the multitalented filmmaker at the back of such acclaimed Bollywood titles as Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham and Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna. Recently, he was once awarded the title of Filmfare's Best Director for a 2d time for his 2010 characteristic My Name Is Khan.
But he isn't only recognized for his abilities in the back of the digital camera. He's additionally hosted TV presentations before, equivalent to Koffee with Karan, and has appeared as a judge on India's Next Superstars and India's Got Talent.
Karan just lately gushed about this newest venture of his in an interview with Indian Express. "Love, matchmaking, and hosting What the Love! with Karan Johar has given me three things that come naturally to me, all in one go!" he said.
"We all have been through difficult phases of self-doubt and low confidence, which often affects our ability to put ourselves out there. Through this show, I want people to look inward and truly love and accept themselves, so that they can find their path to their happily ever after," the big name continued.
Is Karan Johar gay?
One factor that in an instant jumped out to me inside of the first few moments of staring at What the Love is the fact that the show contains gay and lesbian contestants as smartly. While this turns out like quite the step forward for an Indian truth show, it turns out that the host is gay himself.
"Everybody knows what my sexual orientation is," he stated in his memoir, An Unsuitable Boy. "I don't need to scream it out. If I need to spell it out, I won't only because I live in a country where I could possibly be jailed for saying this."
"The reason I don't say it out aloud is simply that I don't want to be dealing with the FIRs. I'm very sorry," he added. "I have a job, I have a commitment to my company, to my people who work for me; there are over a hundred people that I'm answerable to. I'm not going to sit in the courts because of ridiculous, completely bigoted individuals who have no education, no intelligence."
Watch What the Love with Karan Johar on Netflix.
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