2024-07-03 10:00:02
If there was a bingo card for Bollywood movies that never fail to make us cry, a few Dharma staples would no doubt feature on it. The scenes in question: Anjali smiling through her tears as Rahul practises his proposal speech for Tina on her from Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998); Nandini telepathically feeling her son’s presence in a London mall from Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham… (2001); Aman confessing his love for Naina through Rohit’s blank diary pages from Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003); a grief-stricken Mandira screaming at Rizwan to leave her alone on the pitch where their son was killed from My Name Is Khan (2010).
Turns out, Isha Ambani Piramal also turns to Karan Johar’s oeuvre when she needs a good cry. In a special outtakes feature from Vogue India’s July-August cover story, we asked the Ambani scion to list a few tearjerkers she swears by. “It’s the holy trinity of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham… and Kal Ho Naa Ho,” she revealed. Truly, are any of our tear ducts immune to “Har pal, har ghadi, har waqt, mere naina meri Naina ko doondhte hain”? Nobody is safe from the double dose of Johar and Shah Rukh Khan—not even a billionaire heiress.
We followed up this question by asking Isha to name her go-to karaoke song, and once again, she evoked Johar’s name. “I’m a die-hard Karan and Dharma fan so I will sing any of his songs at the top of my voice,” she laughs. Could some of them be ‘Bole Chudiyan’, ‘Channa Mereya’, ‘Mitwa’ or ‘Iktara’? Our guess is as good as yours.
With eagle-eyed paps keeping tabs on her family at all hours of the day, Isha longs for time away from prying eyes. Which would explain why she answered, “By myself, scrolling Instagram in a room with no noise and lots of sunlight” when asked how she would ideally spend a day with no commitments in Vogue India’s cover story. Perhaps this is also why she chose “invisibility” when asked to name her superpower of choice. “Just floating around different places that are really interesting but nobody knows I’m there,” she elaborated. If Johar reports an unseen presence on his next movie set, we’ll know it was just Isha dropping by under a functional cloak of invisibility.
