Less stars in industry a crisis: Karan Johar

Filmmaker Karan Johar terms the minimal number of stars in the film industry as a “crisis” and hopes that the country starts loving more and more stars very soon. Present at the launch of a digital portal Talent Next, Karan, asked about the few options filmmakers have to cast in their films in terms of stars, said, “Yes, big problem. 100 movies to make and six of them only that can sell your movie, suddenly you take anyone else and they say ‘you won’t get the budget otherwise, then the music won’t sell, overseas won’t sell, satellite won’t sell, digital won’t sell, nothing sells then.

“We’re going through a crisis. There really are those many actors who are in trade parlance are viable, saleable. It is very limiting, we have very few movie stars and I hope the country starts loving more and more stars very soon. And gives them longevity as movie stars so that we can actually have the choice. The way that we used to love our movie stars up to the 1980s that madness and insanity is definitely depleting with time,” he added.