Karan Johar: Will never look at 'Kalank' as a failure but as a success

Perhaps one of the most anticipated films of 2019, Abhishek Varman's 'Kalank' sank without a trace despite the hype around it.

The film, produced by Dharma Productions, was Karan Johar's dream project and had an impressive line up of actors in it. Yet, the film gained mostly bad reviews and earned little over Rs 80 crore at the box office.

Now for the first time, Johar, while speaking to DNA, has opened up about the film's failure. "To me, when 'Kalank' fails, it is my failure. I’m the older one, I’m the wiser one. I’m the more knowledgeable person about what works and what doesn’t. If the film has faltered, it is largely my responsibility and my blame. Of course, no one person can take the blame, but I choose to because I felt that the material was something I was aware of for not one year but 15 years.”

The filmmaker said the film was a learning experience. “There are two ways I could have gone about this. I could have sunk in this failure or I could have questioned, ‘Why?’ Or I could have said, ‘Why did this happen and let me learn from this.’ Let this be a new 2.0 feeling where I am a lot more analytical. I am putting my projects through a lot more trials and tribulations before it is out there to an audience. When you fail and learn from it, that to me is a success. I will never look at Kalank as a failure. I will look at it as a success because it has taught me how not to fail like this.”

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'Kalank' featured Alia Bhatt, Madhuri Dixit, Sonakshi Sinha, Varun Dhawan, Sanjay Dutt and Aditya Roy Kapur in pivotal roles.