Karan Johar says Jigra failure was ‘disappointing,’ feels a decade later individuals will say Alia Bhatt was ‘courageous’ to do it | Bollywood
Up to date on: Aug 13, 2025 10:19 pm IST
Alia Bhatt’s Jigra, which launched in 2024, emerged as a field workplace failure. Producer Karan Johar is reacting to the movie’s reception now.
Filmmaker Karan Johar has spoken out in regards to the field workplace failure of Jigra, which starred Alia Bhatt within the lead function and was launched final yr. In an interview with Suchin Mehrotra, Karan mentioned that all the group had religion within the movie and trusted Vasan Bala’s imaginative and prescient, so evidently the failure did depart them ‘disillusioned.’ Nonetheless, he additionally feels that the movie shall be remembered as one thing that ‘broke floor’ within the subsequent decade. (Additionally learn: Alia Bhatt chased Vasan Bala to pay money for Jigra script; director wasn’t proud of Karan Johar. Here is why)
What Karan mentioned about Jigra
In the course of the interview, Karan shared, “Vasan’s meta-referencing, quirks and magnificence of completely breaking the grammar of filmmaking, such issues could not at all times land, proper? However ought to he cease making movies like this due to that? No! He should at all times make movies that he believes in.”
‘I’m very happy with Jigra’
He added, “Sure, we had been disillusioned, dejected and unhappy. However we’re all very happy with that movie, even right now. Even now, now we have a gaggle comprising Vasan, me and Alia. Vasan has a superb self-deprecating sense of humour. He’ll make enjoyable of himself in probably the most distinctive manner doable. We nonetheless ship messages on that group. Like I’ll go and chat about this. I do imagine {that a} decade or two later, we are going to reference Jigra as one thing that broke floor, one thing that Alia was courageous to do, one thing that Vasan was courageous to contribute to and the remainder of us had been so courageous to do. I’m very happy with Jigra. There are movies that I’m not happy with which have failed… this movie could have failed on the field workplace however for me it’s a success story and I’ll preserve it.”
Jigra was an action-packed narrative centred round a jail break, showcasing the lengths a sister will go to guard her brother. Produced underneath the banner of Dharma Productions, Jigra hit theatres on October 11.
