{"id":321940,"date":"2026-02-28T14:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T14:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/321940\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T14:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T14:34:14","slug":"karan-johar-calls-actors-insecure-says-loyalty-is-missing-in-bollywood-they-are-absolutely-nobodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/321940\/","title":{"rendered":"Karan Johar calls actors \u2018insecure\u2019, says loyalty is missing in Bollywood: \u2018They are absolutely nobodies\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"content\">Filmmaker and producer Karan Johar has never shied away from speaking his mind about the realities of the entertainment business, and this time, he\u2019s taken aim at the industry\u2019s shifting loyalties. In a recent conversation with Sarthak Ahuja of SCREEN, Karan opened up about the challenges of running a talent management agency.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/ht-img\/img\/2026\/02\/27\/400x225\/Karan_1772186938480_1772186943825.webp\" alt=\"Karan Johar\" title=\"Karan Johar\" width=\"360\" height=\"202\" loading=\"eager\"\/>Karan Johar<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Talent management, not a fairytale<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Karan, who co-owns Dharma Cornerstone Agency (DCAA), said that most actors today lack professional loyalty. Without naming anyone, he remarked, \u201cEvery two years, people are shifting from one agency to another because they are so insecure that they feel we are time-bound. Nobody is loyal in this business; actors just keep hopping and skipping. So you put two years of your life into a talent and they suddenly move somewhere else \u2014 and then they don\u2019t like it there and want to come back. This is a vicious circle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Karan also said that getting into talent management came naturally to him, explaining that most of the work revolves around understanding and managing people. \u201cNinety percent of this business is about handling people, egos, insecurities and it\u2019s not easy,\u201d he said. He also emphasised that \u201cif you look at talent management as a business opportunity, nothing is going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Reflecting on his long career, Karan added, \u201cAfter being in the business for 31 years, I have become zen about success and failure because I feel like my joy and sorrow cannot be the result of my success and failure because then I will be in an ICU.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">\u2018Artists are nobodies\u2019 without loyalty<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Karan went further to say that agencies can\u2019t rely only on commissions anymore and must look for equity-based partnerships with their talent. \u201cJust commission on artists is going to give you nothing because artists are nobodies. They are absolutely nobodies, voh kisi ke nahi hain,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">His remarks come months after Janhvi Kapoor left DCAA to join Collective Artists Network, sparking speculation about internal shifts within Dharma\u2019s talent division. Currently, Karan\u2019s agency represents names like Sara Ali Khan, Rohit Saraf, Shanaya Kapoor and Rasha Thadani.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Filmmaker and producer Karan Johar has never shied away from speaking his mind about the realities of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,149638,8554,149639,149637,149640,149641,270],"class_list":["post-321940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jahanvi-kapoor-leaves-dharma","tag-karan-johar","tag-karan-johar-calls-actors-insecure","tag-karan-johar-celebrities","tag-karan-johar-jahanvi-kapoor","tag-karan-johar-wife","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}