KOFFEE WITH KARAN

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EPISODE 14
SUSHMITA SEN AND SANJAY DUTT

Karan: She's the ultimate diva, a total head turner. No wonder she was crowned Miss Universe in the year 1994. The term 'sex appeal' finds a new meaning when it comes to Sushmita Sen. The best part is that she can actually turn you on with just her conversation.

Karan: Call it media terminology or you're stuck with the tag. Do you think you are a diva?
Sushmita: The definition of a diva is not clear to me. A woman who I love and admire is also called a diva - Madonna. If you go by that definition, then thank you so much! (laughs)

Karan: The year you won Miss India… No offences here, but it was a complete shock to everyone in India, including you, because Aishwarya Rai was the touted winner.
Sushmita: I was shocked, Karan because I had taken back my form for the entry of the pageant knowing that Aishwarya Rai was entering the pageant. I thought, "Why bother?" But thanks to my mother who explained to me that there is a thing in life called an upset. And you will never know if you can be that to someone or someone else can be that to you, unless you've given it a shot.
Karan: Why do you think you deserved to win when you compare yourself to Aishwarya?
Sushmita: I don't compare. I think she was fabulous on stage. I think I was my best that evening and that's why I deserved to win. I also think I was lucky that evening and that's important in a competition, not just your hard work. Because there were 20 or 30 girls who put in equal or more amount of hard work (smiles).

Karan: My next guest is also a head turner and also a bed turner from what I've heard. But as somebody put it, in the entire industry, he's the original rock star.
Sanjay: I'm not a bed turner just a head turner. She is more than me (points at Sush) Sushmita: Welcome to the show. (laughs)

Karan: Sanju, it hasn't been easy for you in the industry, with the upswings and downswings in career and also on a personal level. What keeps you going?
Sanjay: One has to be a fighter in life - face a problem instead of running away. I did the running away bit with drugs but that doesn't help. Its only when you are down that you want to climb up.
Karan: Yes, but it does take a lot to combat all those problems. What are your thoughts today?
Sanjay: I have no regrets; these are lessons life has taught. I don't have bad feelings towards anybody. If I were in their situation maybe I would do the same, either when I was in my drug phase or when I was in jail.

Karan: We'll chat relationships now. There have been so many? What's with it - commitment phobia or boredom?
Sushmita: It's not boredom. Sometimes you outgrow relationships and people. Nothing comes with a guarantee. I think relationships are there for you to grow with. Sometimes they last, sometimes they don't. (smiles)

Karan: Sanju, you've had so many relationships too. What keeps you going, in that respect?
Sanjay: Karan, I love to be loved. I like to be held and cuddled. That keeps happening (laughs). I'm more romantic today. Marriage is commitment that you have to respect. I think those days are gone when women had to sacrifice a lot. I think the institution is dead.
Sushmita: Objection, your honor! I don't think the institution is dead. I think the whole concept of marriage has changed. Adjustment issues didn't exist earlier.

Karan: What about fidelity? Is it that much more difficult to be faithful to your spouse today?
Sushmita: Fidelity is something that people have to have their own meaning of. Most people associate fidelity with the physical aspect of it. If a man has another woman on his mind and me beside him, that doesn't mean faithful. For me, it's a mind thing.

Karan: The two of you were linked up once - after a show in London where you bashed someone up. What happened there?
Sushmita: I was being harrowed by this photographer. Sanju came and asked if I needed some help. I said I could handle it. Then the gentleman physically came and held me, and stopped me from going. Sanju just came, pushed him, took his camera off because the photographer was coming on to me. That incident got blown out of proportion, and it was termed an affair. (smiles)

Karan: Now I let you ask each other any questions you want. In case you ever wanted to.
Sushmita: Have you ever regretted being in a relationship?
Sanjay: No. Never.
Sushmita: How many times of all the times you've been in a relationship, have you really truly been in love?
Sanjay: All of them. I love to be in love.
Sushmita: If you are going to love every single woman that you're going to be with, then whom will you marry?
Sanjay: I love these heart attacks. (laughs)
Sushmita: (laughs) Marriage is a heart attack?

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EPISODE 15
ABHISHEK BACHCHAN AND PREITY ZINTA

Karan: He is the son of a living legend. He is probably the most eligible bachelor in the country today. Suddenly emerging as the sexiest thing on Indian celluloid, my first guest on this show is back on popular demand because the girls couldn't get enough of baby Bachchan. He is ready to bed, wed and knock you dead. Let's welcome Abhishek Bachchan again on this show.

Karan: How does it feel to come again on the show?
Abhishek: I'm not too happy.
Karan: Why? I just said you were back by popular demand, we got e-Mails and letters and all kinds of phone calls saying bring the junior B back but this time with a girl. Why do you think that happened?
Abhishek: Because they all empathised with the fact that I didn't win the coffee hamper last time. So they wanted to give me an opportunity to win it again.
Karan: Don't tell me you are still sulking?
Abhishek: I am still sulking.

Karan: We will be talking about your single, sexy status. What does it really feel like? I mean you know I am quite shocked because I never ever thought you would be called sexy in my wildest dreams. You were this brat who where part of my childhood. You are sexy! Do you believe it?
Abhishek: (nods)
Karan: You are lying. You have women hitting at you all the time?
Abhishek: No.
Karan: Of course you do. Your father is not here, so come on, talk to me.
Abhishek: No, I really don't.
Karan: Of course, you do. You told me you do, so don't lie. I have a lie-o-meter. Women don't hit on you?
Abhishek: No. (smiles)
Karan: (beeps the lie-o-meter and says) Contemporary heroines don't hit on you?
Abhishek: They hit me, like I said the last time.

Abhishek: Karan's next guest tonight is somebody who I consider to be very special a very good friend. She is Preity Zinta a very talented actor and more importantly a wonderful human being, great fun. I would like to invite on stage Basanti.

Karan: How does it feel to not win for Veer Zaara? It was a major film of the year.
Preity: Well, it's OK. You know, I think what's important is the film did really well. I was appreciated and that was people's choice.
Abhishek: I will translate what she was saying. (grinning) "I can't believe I lost. Rani was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. Why couldn't they just give her that? I should have won Best Actress. Just because I didn't show up…"
Preity: (Nods with a surprise)

Karan: Tell me your response for not winning the award for Veer Zaara?
Preity: I won Jodi No1. (smiles)
Karan: With Shah Rukh, of course.

Karan: Preity, have you never been attracted to Abhishek?
Preity: Totally, but he has been ignoring me, Karan.
Karan: Be serious, no attraction?
Preity: No. I found an immediate comfort zone with Abhishek, which was a mad comfort zone.
Abhishek: I think we both were completely normal in front of each other. There was no pretence. She was being just the mad person that she is.
Preity: And he was being madder then I was…

Karan: Did you get calls from families saying, "Are you seeing Abhishek Bachchan?"
Preity: Oh, yeah. But it was great because I am his fan-o-meter. I know how many fans he has as all the women were calling me up.

Karan: Abhishek, they have questioned your performance level, they has questioned your body, they said you had put on weight in this age of being fit and muscular. You were somebody who has gone out of shape, and various other things like about your voice modulation. Did you feel today you want to get back to those detractors or did you learn from their criticism?
Abhishek: No, I don't want to get back. I would like to thank them. This industry makes you grow very faster. Today I realise that I was completely not prepared to be an actor. I had no idea. I was like a child who was given a toy.

Karan: What is the sleaziest pick up line you have heard of?
Abhishek: One lady came up to me and said, "That's a really cute ass." I almost fainted. I thought she was not talking to me and I turned and looked around.
Karan: It's not that terrible.
Preity: May be it would be terrible if she had grabbed it and said! (giggles) Sorry, Abhishek.

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Episode 16
KONKONA SEN SHARMA AND RAHUL BOSE

Karan: My first guest tonight is someone who has made her presence felt in a short span of time. Her solid sincerity, natural ease and an unconventional appeal have put her on the cinematic map. Critics and sensibility-driven audiences love her. So if you have seen her in Page 3 or in Mr And Mrs Iyer, you have to say here is an actor to stay. Let's welcome Aparna Sen's daughter and National Award winning actress, Konkona Sen Sharma.

Karan: How does it feel post Page 3? It has met with so much mainstream success.
Konkona: I am surprised and grateful. I am surprised because I have no expectations from any of my movies. I mean, you never know. I enjoyed it. You cannot please people. I am very grateful as I feel it's all luck.

Karan: A film like Mr and Mrs Iyer, which is such a credible film, wins National Awards but does not get the audiences. Then a Page 3 comes your way and you taste mainstream success. Everyone knows who Konkona Sen is today because of Page 3 and not because of Mr and Mrs Iyer.
Konkona: It does not really matter to me either way. They may not like the next movie I make.
Karan: What about your views on accepting mainstream films?
Konkona: Some are so much fun. I enjoy watching them occasionally. I liked Main Hoon Na and Kal Ho Na Ho. They are long but so much fun.
Karan: All our films are long but so much fun. We can't help it.

Karan: You have done some good work with Rahul Bose. You have done Mr and Mrs Iyer and now you are working with him again?
Konkona: Yeah, we are doing another film together. It's called 15 Park Avenue. It has Shabana Azmi, Waheedaji, Shefali Chaya and I play a schizophrenic.
Karan: Are you in anyway close to the character?
Konkona: Oh yeah, I am. (laughs)

Karan: My next guest tonight is someone whose butt shot in English August was a talking point for quite sometime. But that does not take away from this boy's inherent passion for good cinema. He has done an enviable lot of niche audience films that have an indelible mark on the minds of the sensible cine-goers. Let's call the multiplex man himself, Rahul Bose.

Karan: How was the experience on the sets on Mr and Mrs Iyer?
Konkona: It was my best movie ever.
Rahul: It's very rare that you get 5 or 6 factors coinciding beautifully - a great director, a great story, a great role, a great co-actor and socio-politically, something you believe in. It was like the planets aligning once in a million years.

Karan: A big mainstream filmmaker comes to you with a big film, but you don't identify with it. Would you do it for a career upswing?
Konkona: I have never identified with any of the characters I played.
Karan: Would you play the sexy chemistry teacher of Main Hoon Na?
Konkona: If I could, Karan, I would do it in a heartbeat. No chance. I am just Mrs Iyer.

Karan: Rahul, you once said that Jhankar Beats is the only film, which you have done where you think that you didn't identify with the scenario. You felt it was a slightly mainstream cinema?
Rahul: I did Jhankar Beats because there was a perception that I was a very intense actor, and underplayed. So I had to shoot that myth and hopefully, I shot it.
Karan: You did that to prove a point?
Rahul: Yes, I actually believe that films that are gripping in a narrative do not need songs. Am I against musicals? Definitely not. I think they have their own grammar. Stick to the grammar of what you are doing.

Karan: Has there been a vibe between the both of you?
Konkona: A vibe? Yeah, I love him.
Karan: Are you admitting it then?
Konkona: Officially? Will I get a coffee hamper for it?

Karan: To what extent would you go skin showing? Are you a prude?
Konkona: I don't think I am a prude. But I can't show skin. May be if I had a gorgeous body, I would flaunt it.
Karan: I saw you at a party and it looked super hot.
Konkona: I am not comfortable. But I may do a little bit for myself, for fun. The only thing I can do is kissing.
Karan: Have you done a single film that you have been really uncomfortable with?
Rahul: I think that the two films that didn't turn out the way the script was written were Bombay Boys and Mumbai Matinee. I felt these films were a let down from the way I had seen the films in my mind's eye. But I would still do the movies again if I were offered them. I still stand by my performances in the films. I could not do better.

Karan: What happens when your female actor takes the lime light?
Rahul: I feel intensely jealous and hateful and bitter.
Karan: That's the answer I wanted. (smiles)
Rahul: So what I do is I just think very carefully. And I clean my mind of all the hatred. And decide to, at some point, kill them. (laughs)

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EPISODE 17
PRIYANKA CHOPRA AND ARJUN RAMPAL

Karan: She is the latest 'A' list, mainstream girl. She is sexy, she is earthy and she's got what it takes. She is known for her curves, charisma and her controversies. You praise her onscreen performance and she will accept it in her Andaaz. Say anything about her alleged affairs, there will be an Aitraaz. Let's welcome Miss World 2000, Priyanka Chopra.

Karan: There is a new stand Priyanka is taking - no exposure suddenly?
Priyanka: It's a conscious decision. It's required when you are performing. When I played Aitraaz, it was more of a character that I was playing. I don't want to be known for exposure.
Karan: Are you trying to say that the girls who show skin are not going to ever make it into the big league?
Priyanka: No, I never said that. That's how I started. It happened with me in the beginning. I did do an Andaaz. I did wear a bikini. It's not something I can say I am ashamed of. But it is not something I want to do now. I want to be known more for my performance.
Karan: How many times recently have you refused kissing scenes in films?
Priyanka: I have not done any! (smiles)
Karan: Anyone you want to kiss onscreen?
Priyanka: No, those things I keep for privacy. (laughs)

Karan: My next guest tonight is a super model-turned-actor, Greek-god-gorgeous, has women going weak in the knees as they see him, but not much can happen because he is happily married and intends to keep it that way. That's what he says. So let's call Arjun Rampal.

Karan: 'Good looking' - you have heard that a lot, has it ever frustrated you?
Arjun: It's got nothing to do with me. This is the way I am, they find me good looking and I make money.

Karan: What happens when you have a string of flops? How does it bother you?
Arjun: It does bother you. Because all you want to do is good films and I consciously do want to do it because I am very passionate about films and I want the films to work. I work on every film really hard. But I guess you just got to be strong. Mr Bachchan had 10 to 12 flops before he became Mr Bachchan, so there is a man who has rocked it even after so many flops and disasters and is a great example.

Karan: You have been from the modelling world, when they said there is a casting couch even for men. Have you been subjected to it?
Arjun: (laughs) I don't know. I have not seen it. I have not experienced it. It is not the people from the fraternity but people from outside.

Karan: Have you felt the vibe around you ever, Priyanka?
Priyanka: When it comes to the casting couch, no. I have never had to go through it or been even offered or felt the vibe of it because when I came into the industry I was already Miss World and before that Miss India just happened. So it always started with the media knowing who I was.

Karan: So much talk about the alleged romance with Akshay Kumar, Priyanka.
Priyanka: I am honestly tired of it because there is enough that's been said, speculated, thought of. Opinions of people do not matter to me as they does not matter to my family.
Karan: Does it upset your working relationship with a man?
Priyanka: Of course, it does. I just seem to be crowned as the Controversy Queen and I detest it. I just want to be known for my work.
Karan: Do you want to say anything to the media who go on and on writing about it?
Priyanka: Aren't you tired of it? Let's talk about something interesting and fresh. (laughs)

Karan: Are you seeing anyone?
Priyanka: No
Karan: You are single and ready to mingle?
Priyanka: Pretty much actually. I am sick and tired of this whole thing. I just want to work.
Karan: You are only 21! How could you be sick and tired?
Priyanka: 22! See I am being honest. (laughs)

Karan: You have an international look. You don't look like filmi prototype. Do you think that comes in your way?
Arjun: No, I don't think so. If somebody is just saying, "That's a good-looking guy", how long can you watch him? You have to hold the story. I hope people start looking at me as a good actor.

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Big B-SRK-Jaya-Kajol together

There's some good news and some bad news. Lets start with the bad one first. Karan Johar's popular show on Star World 'Koffee With Karan' is coming to an end. Now you may be asking with such a shocker what will be the good news. Well before shutting down, Karan will be coming up with some fresh combos for his show that include Shahid Kapur and Esha Deol, Hema Malini and Zeenat Aman and Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh. And wait, that's not all! The best is yet to come.

For the grand finale of his show Amitabh is planning a deadly combination. Two of his personal favorites and undoubtedly Bollywood's biggest superstars - Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan! And to make it a more memorable experience Karan has called in more of his colleagues. Karan has even invited today's topmost directors - Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Farah Khan and Farhan Akhtar and Big B and SRK's perfect screen partners - Jaya Bachchan and Kajol respectively. So what if most of the celebrities have already made it to the show, this sums up for a complete mega-starrer spectacular in the traditional Karan Johar style.

All the additional invited celebrities will talk about Bachchan and King Khan on the show. The show was recently shot on April 4 in complete secrecy. Watch out for this one. Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Ghum: Part 2 anyone?