Karan Johar opened up about his depression and earned a lot of respect. Without blaming the pressure of the industry that many succumb to, KJo bared his heart out. In the same interview, he also spoke about being soft targets of political parties and how his films have always been targetted. He said, "I feel vulnerable and scared while even saying this. I completely feel the pain and anger. If my film is targeted because of this, it will make me exceptionally sad because my intent was to put out a product out of love and nothing else. I beseech everyone to look at it holistically and understand the situation, that there is a larger situation here and it has nothing to do with banning talent. I am just a filmmaker, telling a love story."

And he went on to saying how these situations make artists and people like him to literally request people to leave them and their films alone. He said,

"Today I feel, I am a vulnerable soft target. I have faced it, felt the repercussions of it in the past and I have constantly combated that. Sometimes, you just want to fold your hands and say, ‘We are a creative industry. Please leave us alone. We make movies, we spread love. There are millions in the world, in our country who are happy with the work we do, allow us that. I think we should not be those soft targets anymore. We don’t matter in the scheme of things but we can make things happier and better."