KJO-KAREENA RIFT

THE 'VERY IDIOTIC'

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Some years ago, filmmaker Karan Johar wrote candidly in his autobiography about falling out with some of his closest friends in Bollywood

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One of those friends was actress Kareena Kapoor who played the mercurial ‘Poo' in KJo's 2001 blockbuster ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham'

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KJo offered Kareena the lead role in his next film 'Kal Ho Naa Ho,' which released in 2003

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Kareena, a top star at the time, asked for a salary equal to that of Shah Rukh Khan who had been cast already

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"She asked for too much money and we had some kind of a fallout at that time,” Karan Johar wrote in ‘An Unsuitable Boy'

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He turned Kareena down and the role went to actress Preity Zinta – with consequences for the KJo-Kareena friendship

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"Kareena and I didn't speak to each other for almost a year. For a year, we looked through each other at parties,” KJo wrote

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“It was very idiotic. She was a kid; she's a decade younger than me,” he added

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They eventually made up and Kareena Kapoor starred in the 2010 Karan Johar-produced ‘We Are Family'

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Karan Johar also made the baby announcement after Kareena and husband Saif Ali Khan welcomed son Taimur in 2016

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