Did You Know Karan Johar Tried To 'Sabotage' Alia Bhatt's Casting In Kapoor & Sons? Here's Why

Everybody knows how close Alia Bhatt is with Karan Johar. The talented actress made her acting debut with KJo’s ‘Student of the Year’ and later went on to prove her versatility as an actor by taking up interesting and challenging roles. Karan is extremely proud of Alia and the success she has achieved so far. It might now come as a surprise to you that KJo once tried to ‘sabotage’ the actress’ casting. In the movie Kapoor & Sons. Yes, you read that right!Kapoor & Sons starred Alia Bhatt alongside Sidharth Malhotra and Fawad Khan. Directed by Shakun Batra, the movie also starred Rishi Kapoor, Rajat Kapoor and Ratna Pathak Shah. Speaking during an ‘Inside the writers’ room’ session on the Clubhouse app, Karan confessed that he had a one-on-one session with the actress to convince her not to do Kapoor & Sons.’I tried to sabotage her casting because I had a one-on-one with Alia and I said, ‘Listen, you don’t have to do every Dharma film. You don’t like it, you don’t do it because the part is really nothing. She was like, ‘Yeah, I know but I love Shakun Bhatra, I’ll just hear it for him, he’s a…
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