Karan Johar Reveals Yash, Roohi Ask Him About Their Birth Mother: 'Whose Stomach Was I Born In?'

Karan Johar said that his twins have started asking him about their mother. Karan said that Yash and Roohi, who call the filmmaker’s mother ‘mumma’, have begun to point out that she is in fact their grandmother. The filmmaker said that he has sought help to deal with this development, including reaching out to their school counsellor.

Karan told Faye D’Souza in a recent chat, “It is a modern family. It is an unusual circumstance, so now I am also dealing with the questions about ‘whose stomach was I born in? But mumma is not mumma really, she is my grandmother’. I am going to school, to the counsellor, to ask how do we navigate the situation. And it is not easy, being a parent is never easy.”

Karan Johar welcomed his twins Yash and Roohi via surrogacy in 2017. He is a single parent and raises the kids with his mother, Hiroo Johar, who is 81 years old. The kids turned 7 years old in February this year and Karan penned an emotional note for them and his mother.

He wrote, “Happiest birthday to the brightest sunshines (x2) of my life! My life is forever changed, for the best with you two coming into it with your goofy and adorable laughs, unadulterated sass towards ME and of course – an abundance of love to give to the world! Never change…grow up but never change.” “And thank you to my mom, who is forever the strength of our family…and being a mother figure to Yash & Roohi! Love you forever mom,” he added.

Karan has also often spoken about how he feels lonely due to the lack of a partner. “I have two children. Obviously, I’m co-parenting them with my mom (and) not with a partner. That means I have a single status. And that single status is filled in with a lot of work. I push in so much work in the day that I don’t think about that status. That’s what we all do when you’re single, you’re lonely and you’re perhaps not wanting to address that loneliness. You pack in your day with things because you want to distract yourself from the core. Then you believe that if you have great friendships and a great family life, it can actually compensate for the lack of a passionate intense romantic relationship. Nothing can replace that,” he said at an event.

“Life is full of boxes – parents fill one, children fill the other, friends fill the other. But there’s a box for an intense love romantic relationship that if you don’t experience there is a sense of incompleteness that nothing can ever fulfill. That loneliness can actually really kind of consume you and it has consumed me. I have not been in a in a relationship for very many years. I know what that really feels like. Fortunately, I can live vicariously through cinema. I can create those stories, and characters that perhaps that I would like to either romantically be inclined with or just fulfill that part of love and romance in my life. Not everybody has that leverage,” he added.