Karan Johar, the Baahubali presenter met Prime Minister Narendra Modi as part of a delegation representing the Indian film and entertainment industry on Tuesday. After the meeting, Karan Johar shared a photo of himself with PM Narender Modi on social media site- Twitter and wrote that he was enlightened to hear Modi share his views on cinema Industry’s soft power status and its strength. Coming on the pic, Karan Johar is seen shaking Narendra Modi’s hand.
Karan Johar wrote on Twitter, “It was enlightening to hear the honourable Prime Minsiter Narendra Modi share his views on our Industry’s soft power status and the strength of our cinema…He gave our media and entertainment representatives a patient and solid hearing….thank you Sir.”
Not only Narendra Modi, bot other actors and film makers like 2.0 villain Akshay Kumar and Ajay Devgn, filmmaker Rakesh Roshan, Censor Board chief Prasoon Joshi and Producers Guild of India President Siddharth Roy Kapu also met Narendra Modi.
Akshay Kumar also shared a pic and captioned it, “Heartfelt thank you to the honorable Prime Minister @narendramodi ji for taking out time to hear us at length, discuss issues pertaining to our industry and assuring positive consideration of suggestions”
On the work front, Karan Johar announced his next directorial Ventuer Takht which stars Ranveer Singh, Kareena Kapoor, Janhvi Kapoor, Alia Bhatt and Vicky Kaushal. The multi-starrer film is slated to release in the year 2020 and nothing apart from the lead cast has been announced as such. Recently during the media interaction, Karan Johar said, “The film is based on a true historical event that transpired. It is embedded in history and that is why it is important to tell the way it was.”
It is known news that Karan Johar has distributed the Hindi version of Baahubali (the directorial venture of SS Rajamouli) in North India.
It was enlightening to hear the honourable Prime Minsiter @narendramodi share his views on our Industry’s soft power status and the strength of our cinema…he gave our media and entertainment representatives a patient and solid hearing….thank you Sir!! pic.twitter.com/BIl8ubQwYa
— Karan Johar (@karanjohar) December 18, 2018