Raat Aur Dean…When Karan Johar Asked Rishi Kapoor To Play Gay
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Karan Johar’s Student Of The Year clocked six years on October 19. It is also the only occasion in his career when the super-versatile Rishi Kapoor played a gay man. In an unpublished conversation Rishi Kapoor told this writer, “When Karan came to me with this offer I was like, ‘Tu paagal hau kya. Me play gay?’ But then I read the script and began to respond positively to the role. It really didn’t matter after a point whom my character loved. It was the feeling that mattered.” The most interesting character in Student Of The Year was Yogendra Vashisht,