Karan Johar’s opens up about his sexuality and special relationship with SRK!

Filmmaker Karan Johar has always been an open book except when it comes to his sexuality. For years’ people have asked whether the filmmaker is gay or not. 

In his forthcoming biography The Unsuitable Boy, KJo gets upfront and speaks from his heart on his sexual orientation, according to a famous tabloid. He told, "Everybody knows what my sexual orientation is. 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. Which is why I Karan Johar will not say the three words that possibly everybody knows about me."

"This whole homophobia is so disheartening and upsetting," discloses Johar.

There were rumours floating about him and Shah Rukh khan who he calls, "a father figure, an older brother."

Here's an excerpt from the book about him and SRK:

Today, people think that I have all the possible avenues to have all the sex in the world. But that's not who I am at all. To me, sex is a very, very personal and a very intimate feeling. It's not something that I can do casually, with just about anyone. I have to invest in it. I've always handled the rumours that came my way. There has been so much conjecture about my sexuality. For heaven's sake, for years there were rumours about Shah Rukh and me. And I was traumatised by it. I was on a show on a Hindi channel, and I was asked about Shah Rukh. 'Yeh anokha rishta hai aap ka,' the interviewer said. He worded it in such a way that I got really angry. I said, 'If I asked you if you are sleeping with your brother, how will you feel?' So he said, `What do you mean? How can you ask me this question?' I said, 'How could you ask me this question?

For me, no matter what ups and downs Shah Rukh and I have been through, he is a father figure, an older brother to me. For me to look at him in that way or be subjected to those rumours was just ridiculous. But it didn't bother him. He told, 'People talk nonsense, and if a man does not have an extramarital affair, he is supposed to be gay.'