Karan Johar On His Biggest Hichki: I Used To Get Teased A Lot For My Girlish Voice As A Child
Karan Johar is known to be one of India’s most celebrated talk show host and a supremely successful director-producer. However the filmmaker disclosed that he felt like a ‘lesser’ person as a child.
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oi-Madhuri
By Madhuri
He
is
India's
most
celebrated
talk
show
host
and
a
supremely
successful
director-producer.
Karan
Johar,
the
man
whose
cup
of
coffee
gets
everyone's
attention,
has
dealt
with
a
stunning
Hichki
to
come
this
far
in
life.
In
a
startling
revelation,
the
filmmaker
disclosed
that
he
felt
like
a
'lesser'
person
as
a
child
because
he
had
a
feminine
sounding
voice.
Karan
revealed,
"When
I
was
a
child,
there
were
many
Hichki
moments.
The
one
that
I
wouldn't
have
changed
today,
is
that
I
had
a
very
girlish
voice
when
I
was
a
child.
I
had
a
very
squeaky
voice
and
I
used
to
get
teased
a
lot."
He
adds,
"Sometimes
in
my
building,
or
at
school
by
seniors,
or
when
I
went
to
inter
school
competitions,
I
would
get
teased
that
I
am
a
pansy
and
that,
I
sound
like
a
girl.
So
when
I
began
college,
I
went
into
public
speaking.
A
gentleman,
who
used
to
conduct
public
speaking
classes,
Mr
Nazareth,
told
me
that
you
are
very
conscious
of
your
voice.
When
I
told
him
that
I
used
to
feel
awkward
about
my
voice,
he
said
that
firstly
I
should
never
be
ashamed
of
who
I
am.
And
then
to
improve
my
voice
(it's
texture),
he
worked
out
a
course.
So
for
three
years,
I
would
go
to
him
and
his
wife,
thrice
a
week
and
they
gave
me
speech
training.
It
helped
me
speak
and
project
and
train
my
voice
to
find
baritone.
But
I
just
feel
like
today,
I
would
not
change
how
I
sounded.
I
wouldn't
do
what
I
did
and
I
wouldn't
make
my
children
do
the
same."
The
makers
of
Rani
Mukerji's
Hichki
are
promoting
the
film
uniquely
by
asking
prominent
personalities
to
share
their
untold
weaknesses
and
how
they
eventually
converted
them
into
massive
strengths.
Karan
explains
that
with
changing
times,
hiccups
imposed
by
societal
and
public
perception
don't
matter
as
much
today,
and
that,
he
would
have
lived
with
his
hiccup
more
comfortably.
He
says,
"At
those
times,
societal
pressures
were
such
that
it
(my
voice)
was
a
big
hichki.
I
felt
lesser
and
I
was
made
to
feel
abnormal.
And
I
felt
like
I
needed
to
overcome
this
to
be
the
person
that
I
wanted
to
be.
But
today,
times
are
different
and
we
are
all
more
evolved.
I
hope
that
if
this
kind
of
a
hiccup
comes
in
people's
lives
that
they
shouldn't
change
their
core
persona.
But
I
did."
Check
out
the
video
here
where
Karan
speaks
to
Rani
about
overcoming
his
'Hichki'-
Directed
by
Siddharth
P
Malhotra
and
produced
by
Maneesh
Sharma,
Hichki
is
set
to
touch
the
hearts
of
audiences
when
it
releases
on
March
23.