Karan
Johar
has
always
been
known
to
be
generous
towards
his
colleagues'
works,
unless
the
colleague
happens
to
be
Ram
Gopal
Varma.
Little
did
he
know
that
a
harmless
and
warm
congratulatory
tweet
to
his
friends
Akshay
Kumar,
Riteish
Deshmukh,
Arjun
Rampal,
Deepika
Padukone
and
Lara
Dutta
for
their
film
Housefull
would
spark
off
a
series
of
nasty
comments
barbs
and
innuendos
from
across
the
world.
Baffled
and
amused,
Karan
spoke
from
New
York
to
say,
"I
normally
wish
all
the
best
for
all
my
colleagues
and
their
work,
both
to
the
people
and
involved
and
on
public
platforms.
In
fact
just
some
time
after
I
wished
the
team
of
Housefull
I
also
said
good
things
about
my
friend
Gurinder
Chadha's
new
film
It's
A
Wonderful
Afterlife.
No
one
seemed
to
mind
that."
From
the
minute
that
Karan
tweeted
about
Housefull,
his
email,
phone
and
SMS
have
been
swamped
by
indignant
angry
and
abusive
responses.
Says
Karan,
"I
know
it's
free
world.
But
it
doesn't
mean
people
can
say
whatever
they
like.
Many
of
the
messages
are
downright
abusive.
I've
praised
so
many
films.
But
I
didn't
even
praise
Housefull.
I
just
congratulated
the
team.
And
I
started
getting
abusive
messages
asking
how
I
could
support
a
film
like
this.
Arrey,
what
I
choose
to
support
or
not
support
is
entirely
my
prerogative."
Karan
is
clueless
about
what
could've
triggered
off
this
reaction.
Housefull
producer
Sajid
Nadiadwala
says
he's
aware
of
the
backlash
on
the
internet.
"Not
only
Karan
Johar,
even
my
friend
Salman
Khan
tweeted
about
Housefull.
While
no
one
has
any
unkind
thing
to
say
about
the
film
in
print
or
on
television,
on
the
internet
it's
a
different
matter.
This
is
why
I
say,
stay
away
from
social
network
when
it
comes
to
my
film."
Unluckily
for
Nadiadwala,
almost
all
the
members
of
his
Housefull
cast
are
on
Twitter.
Says
the
harried
producer,
"They
are
all
so
active
on
Twitter,
it's
scary.
If
you
notice
all
the
major
troubles
in
our
country
lately,
including
the
IPL
scandal
have
started
on
Twitter.
That's
why
I've
put
a
non-disclosure
agreement
on
people
working
in
my
films." The
next
step
for
Sajid
Nadiadwala
is
to
ask
his
actors
and
technicians
to
stay
off
the
social
networks
on
websites
as
long
as
they
are
working
in
his
films.
Says
Sajid,
"I
cannot
by
contract
persuade
them
to
stay
off
social
networking
websites.
But
I
can
request
them
to
do
so."
As
for
Karan
Johar's
growing
avalanche
of
hate
mail
for
supporting
Housefull,
Karan
says,
"I
don't
care
what's
tweeted
against
me.
It
won't
stop
me
from
supporting
my
friends'
films."