Karan Johar unfollows all actors except Akshay Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh on Twitter

Tribune Web Desk
Chandigarh, June 18

The debate behind nepotism reignited once again after the news of Sushant Singh Rajput's death came out. Behind the actor's sudden death speculations of "professional rivalry" has come up. 

Ever, since, then filmmaker Karan Johar has been at the receiving end of heavy criticism. Karan has unfollowed several accounts on Twitter. 

Currently, he follows just eight accounts, with four of them belonging to his banner Dharma Productions and its CEO, Apoorva Mehta. 

The only three actors followed by him at present are—Akshay Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan. 

He also follows Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

On Sunday, Karan shared a picture with Sushant and said that the news of his death came as a ‘huge wake-up call’ to him. 

“I blame myself for not being in touch with you for the past year..... I have felt at times like you may have needed people to share your life with...but somehow I never followed up on that feeling...will never make that mistake again...we live in very energetic and noisy but still very isolated times ...some of us succumb to these silences and go within...we need to not just make relationships but also constantly nurture them,” he wrote.

“Sushant’s unfortunate demise has been a huge wake up call to me ...to my level of compassion and to my ability to foster and protect my equations.....I hope this resonates with all of you as well....will miss your infectious smile and your bear hug,” he added.

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I blame myself for not being in touch with you for the past year..... I have felt at times like you may have needed people to share your life with...but somehow I never followed up on that feeling...will never make that mistake again...we live in very energetic and noisy but still very isolated times ...some of us succumb to these silences and go within...we need to not just make relationships but also constantly nurture them....Sushants unfortunate demise has been a huge wake up call to me ...to my level of compassion and to my ability to foster and protect my equations.....I hope this resonates with all of you as well....will miss your infectious smile and your bear hug ....💔💔💔

A post shared by Karan Johar (@karanjohar) on Jun 14, 2020 at 4:07am PDT

Meanwhile, actor Swara Bhasker defended Karan and  Alia Bhatt, saying that holding them responsible for Sushant’s death was the "height of idiocy and hypocrisy".

Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma also argued that blaming Karan was "ridiculous."

“Just want to say this to the ignorant social lynch mob that @karanjohar is a bigger victim in this context compared to their ill perceived and suddenly discovered victim Sushant,” he tweeted.

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