“Don’t Consume Or Promote Drugs”: Karan Johar Slams “Malicious Campaign”

Mumbai:

Filmmaker Karan Johar on Friday stated that he didn’t personally know two folks being probed in a widening investigation into drug abuse allegations in Bollywood, refuting media studies that described them as his “aides”.

“A number of media/information channels have been airing information studies that Kshitij Prasad and Anubhav Chopra are my ‘aides’/’shut aides’. I wish to place on document that I have no idea these people personally and neither of those two people are ‘aides’ or ‘shut aides’,” he stated in an announcement.

The producer-director stated that Anubhav Chopra was not an worker at his firm Dharma Productions although he had labored on two tasks with the corporate in an unbiased capability between 2011 and 2013.

Kshitij Ravi Prasad joined Dharmatic Leisure, an organization linked to Dharma Productions, in November 2019 as one of many govt producers on contract foundation for a undertaking which finally didn’t materialise, he stated.

“Neither l, nor Dharma Productions may be made accountable for what folks do of their private lives. These allegations don’t pertain to Dharma Productions,” Karan Johar stated.

The filmmaker, who has been the goal of harassment and abuse by a piece of social media customers and TV channels because the dying of actor Sushant Singh Rajput in June, lashed out on the “malicious marketing campaign” that started with accusations of encouraging nepotism and later spiralled into allegations of rampant drug abuse.

He rubbished studies that recommended medication have been consumed at a celebration he hosted at his house final yr in July and stated, “These slanderous and malicious statements, information articles and information clippings have unnecessarily subjected me, my household, and my colleagues, and Dharma Productions, to hatred, contempt and mock.”

“I wish to unequivocally as soon as once more state that I don’t eat narcotics and I don’t promote or encourage consumption of any such substance,” he stated.

“Prior to now few days, the media has resorted to distasteful, distorted and false allegations. I hope the members of the media would train restraint else I can be left with no choice however to legally shield my rights in opposition to this baseless assault on me,” Mr Johar added.

Kshitij Ravi Prasad and Anubhav Chopra are among the many rising listing of members of the Hindi movie trade in Mumbai who’ve come underneath the lens of the Narcotics Management Bureau (NCB) for alleged drug abuse that has additionally known as prime actors like Deepika Padukone for questioning.

The allegations emerged following the investigation into the dying of Sushant Singh Rajput that uncovered expenses of drug abuse by him and led to the arrest of a number of of his associates together with girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty, additionally an actor, for allegedly serving to him rating contraband.