Karan Johar's drug announcement received the support of Bollywood friends; Aliya, Sonam and others Join

 Karan Johar's clarifying post on the alleged drug connection has received a lot of support from industry friends such as Alia Bhatt, Sonam Kapoor, and others who support him.

As Karan Johar broke his silence about the Bureau of Narcotics Control taking an investigation into his controversial 2019 video, he received a lot of support from some Bollywood stars. The director denies having ever used any drugs, and the post has been approved by the film industry authorities. Including those who starred in the scandalous video.

Karan Johar backed by Bollywood stars on statement

Celebrities such as Manish Malhotra, Amrita Arora, Alia Bhatt's mother - actor Sonia Hrazdan, Twinkle Khanna, Punit Malhotra, Pulkit Samrat, commented on his post by raising their thumbs up, clapping emoticons and words like “you said hug”.

Among the stars who liked the post were Alia Bhatt, Sonam K Ahuja, Abhishek Bachchan, Varun Dhawan, Chunky Pandey,  Riteish Deshmukh and Sussanne Khan. Two stars, who were present in the controversial video, Vicky Kaushal and Malaika Arora also backed the post.

Karan Johar criticized "misleading messages", "defamatory and malicious statements" against his name in connection with the ongoing Bureau of Narcotics Control investigation into the Bollywood drug cartel. The producer's announcement came after reports argued that he too should be called to NCB as Rhea Chakraborty was arrested and names such as Deepika Padukone, Sara Ali Khan, Shraddha Kapoor and Rakul Preet Singh emerged.

"In his statement, Karan Johar had stated, “I would like to further state that Kshitij Prasad and Anubhav Chopra — I do not know these individuals personally and neither of these two individuals are 'aides' or 'close aides'. Neither I, nor Dharma Productions can be made responsible for what people do in their personal lives. These allegations do not pertain to Dharma Productions.

"I wish to further state that Anubhav Chopra is not an employee at Dharma Productions. He was briefly associated with us for only two months in the capacity of 2nd assistant director for a film, between November 2011 and January 2012 and as assistant director for the short film in January 2013. He has thereafter never been associated with Dharma.Mr. Kshitij Ravi Prasad joined Dharmatic in November 2019 as one of the executive producers on contract basis for a project which eventually did not materialise.”