In a recent interview with a leading media organisation, Bollywood director-producer Karan Johar said that people should stop judging homosexuals. “When a man loves a woman or a man loves a man, the level of intensity is not something that you are supposed to judge. It's something you have to evolve with, it's something you have to accept, and it is a part of the human DNA.”
He further added that many people who are gay get married under societal pressures. “When you don't have an understanding and awareness of what it is, how deeply rooted and emotional it is, well that's how it is. I think the most important thing is when there are information and awareness, it leads to understanding it and then it leads to get you an emotion towards it,” the filmmaker said, adding that the lack of understanding about sexual individuality among people is depressing.
Karan also said that he didn’t feel the need to announce or publicise his sexual orientation. “I don’t think I’m not living in a way people will say or judge. So, I do what I like and I do what I love. They say, as a filmmaker I should not dance on a reality stage and I say ‘who said this is a rule?’ I don't want to do anything to conform with what the world says. When you do that with confidence and you do that with conviction, let me tell you nothing can come in the way of that.”