‘My Father Will Die’: Karan Johar Called Viveck Vaswani After Shah Rukh Khan Refused To Work With Mahesh Bhatt

Karan Johar and Shah Rukh Khan share a bond that goes beyond being colleagues — it’s more like that of brothers. The two have delivered some of the biggest hits whenever they’ve come together for a film. During a time when Dharma Productions was going through a rough patch, it was Shah Rukh Khan who helped Karan revive the production house. In a recent interview, Viveck Vaswani revealed how one “yes" from Shah Rukh changed everything.

Vaswani, in an interview with Radio Nasha, spoke about the time when Ramesh Talwar’s Duniya (1984), Prakash Mehra’s Muqaddar Ka Faisla (1987), Mahesh Bhatt’s Gumrah (1990), and Mukul S. Anand’s Agneepath (1990) had all flopped, and the Johars were on the verge of losing everything. He shared, “Karan Johar called me in the middle of the night and said, ‘My