New Delhi: An old video of Karan Johar talking about how he once wanted to end Anushka Sharma’s career is doing the rounds on the internet and the filmmaker has been receiving flak for it. 


The video is from the 18th MAMI Mumbai Film Festival in 2016. Karan attended the event with his 'Ae Dil Hai Mushkil' actresses Anushka and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan for the promotion of the film. Speaking to Rajeev Masand and Anupama Chopra, KJo had said in jest: "I completely wanted to murder Anushka Sharma's career because when Aditya Chopra showed me her picture, I was like no no, there is no need for you to sign Anushka Sharma. There was another lead actor whom I wanted Adi to sign. I watched the film reluctantly, but when I watched 'Band Baaja Baarat', I felt like I owed her an apology and a compliment, an apology because I felt so embarrassed that I would have ruined the graph of an exceptional talent.”


Writer-editor Apurva Asrani, who is known for his work in 'Aligarh', and 'The Kashmir Files' director Vivek Agnihotri slammed KJo for what he said, even if it was said in a fun way. 
 
Sharing the same video on his Twitter, Apurva Asrani tweeted on Thursday: "'I totally wanted to murder Anushka Sharma's career' - Karan Johar confesses to Rajeev Masand and Anupama Chopra in 2016. Said in jest, I'm sure, but still a worthy point in the raging insider-outsider debate." 







 
Vivek, who took notice of the tweet, shared it on his feed adding his opinion to the same as he wrote: "Someone's only hobby is to make or break careers. If Bollywood is in gutter, it's because of some people's dirty 'backroom' politics against talented outsiders." 


 






Earlier, Priyanka Chopra’s statement about politics in Bollywood had also put Karan Johar in a tight spot with Kangana Ranaut and others blaming him for the same. 


Priyanka spoke to Dax Shepherd on his podcast, saying, "I was being pushed into a corner in the industry (Bollywood). I had people not casting me, I had beef with people, I am not good at playing that game so I kind of was tired of the politics and I said I needed a break. This music thing gave me an opportunity to go into another part of the world, not crave for the movies I didn't want to get but I would require to schmooze certain clubs and cliques of people. It would require grovelling and I had worked a long time by then that I didn't feel like I wanted to do it.”   


"So when this music thing came I was like 'fu** it I'am going to America'," she added. 


After her comment, Kangana took to Twitter and blamed Karn Johar for ganging against Priyanka.