Johar has repeatedly made jokes on his sexual orientation in the past, often on his chat show, but chiefly in the infamous AIB ‘Roast’ (2015)

“Everybody knows what my sexual orientation is. I don’t need to scream it out; I won’t, only because I live in a country where I could possibly be jailed for saying this. Which is why I, Karan Johar, will not say the three words that possibly everybody knows about me.”