When Kareena Kapoor and KJO Stopped Being Friends

Kareena Kapoor Khan’s best friend in  the entertainment industry and  her go-to person  for all the gossip she wants and  all the heartaches she gets,  is  indisputably  Karan Johar. They  are  inseparably close.

 But there came a  phase  in their kinship when they stopped talking to each other completely.Since I was  privy to this  fall-out here is a  true  account of   what happened. This was  when Karan was planning Kal Ho Na  Ho with his favourite  Shah Rukh Khan  and  second-favourite  Bollywood diva Kareena(after Kajol).

Kareena  shocked Karan and his father Yash Johar by quoting a price that sent the father-son staggering out  of  the Kapoors’ residence. Karan gently asked his Bebo Darling to  reconsider the  price. But she  wouldn’t budge.

This, rightly, hurt Karan.

“My father  was  seriously unwell(he later passed away).She could  have shown a bit more sensitivity,”  Karan had confided in a friend.

He  stopped all communication with   Kareena.  For almost a year  they  looked  through each  other at every social gathering that  they attended.  And since they had  plenty  of  common friends  they  kept bumping  into  and ignoring each other, much to the  shock of mutual friends.

 It  was Karisma  who  put an end  to the  Kjo-Bebo  cold war.  She made them  both sit down and  open up the wound which  was  festering  in their relationship.

Says a  source, “Karisma reminded her sister that  Karan  was  the brother they never had,  and  she reminded Karan that Bebo  and  Lolo were the sisters he  never had. That  was  it. In no time,Karan and Kareena were  sobbing and  hugging one  another.”

Kareena  went on to  act in  many  Dharma  Productions. She  insisted she won’t charge money after  what  happened regarding  Kal Ho Na Hao. But  Karan  insisted  on  paying her.