Karan Johar

Producer, Director and television host Karan Johar is widely considered a thought leader of the new generation of the Indian entertainment industry. His directorial debut, made at the age of 25, 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai' (1998), is credited to have redefined the mainstream Hindi romantic cinema.

While making the film Karan also assisted his father, Yash Johar, in the production of 'Duplicate' , and Yash Chopra in 'Dil To Pagal Hai'.

'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai' opened to widespread acclaim and earned him several prestigious awards for direction, story, screenplay and dialogues. He followed up this success with his second film in 2001, the opulent multi starrer 'Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham' , which took box office records to new heights. Besides featuring in the UK charts, 'Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham' also holds the distinction of being the first Indian film to enter the US top ten charts.

Karan continued his journey with 2004, blockbuster 'Kal Ho Naa Ho', that was written and produced by him and 'Kabhie Alvida Naa Kehna' (2006).

He has won numerous awards for his work, including Filmfare Awards, IIFA Popular Awards, Sansui Viewer's Choice Awards and Screen Awards.

He has also hosted ‘Koffee with Karan’, an extremely popular celebrity chat show.

He was chosen as one of 250 Global Young Leaders by the World Economic Forum 2006.

Along with various other Indian luminaries, he also spoke at the Wharton India Economic Forum 2006 held at the prestigious Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in New Delhi in November 2006.

On September, 30th , 2006 he became the first Indian filmmaker to be on Miss World jury. He is on the board of NDTV's Entertainment Company - NDTV Imagine.