Sunday, September 27, 2009

Episode 8 - Guests: Karan Johar and Sonam Kapoor



Theme: Weighty Issues

This episode saw Karan Johar and Sonam Kapoor come and speak about their struggle with their weights. By seeing the two of them, it is difficult to believe that there was a time when Karan weighed 120 Kilos and Sonam weighed 90 kilos. They talk about how they overcame their weight problems, what kind of difficulties they faced due to their weight and also about how society puts certain conditions and pressures where one's physical appearance and look is concerned.

Both Karan and Sonam share interesting anecdotes from their childhood when they used to eat hiding from their mothers, eat to overcome depression and when their schoolmates and friends would tease them and hurt them. They also play some fun games where they guess calories of different food items.

The Main Hoon Na for this episode was Probir Kumar Dey, whose wife has left him because he is overweight and is with some other person now. Probir still loves his wife and is hopeful of her coming back and even requests the same through the show.

Anecdotes:
1. Karan says his maximum weight was around 120 kilos.
2. Karan says it was his mother who always was in denial that her son is fat and used to feed him more, he was made to wear really tight clothes as a child. There were times that his confidence level was zero.
3. When in school, he never had any friends and the only sport in which he was accepted was 'Tug of War' because they needed someone who was 90 kilos and he fitted the bill. That is the only gold medal he has.
4. Karan decided he has to get in shape after he saw himself on television when he received an award for something. He says about what he felt ' Main Insaan nahi lag raha tha, aisa lag raha tha , I main poora Sheher hoon." It was then he deided that he had to lose weight.
5. Karan says today he loves to add people from his school on facebook who used to tease him regarding his look. He wants to show them that today that he is in shape and he looks ugly.
6. Karan used to order cakes faking his mothers voice.
7. Karan has not had carbohydrates like rice, sugar and such food in ten years.
8. Sonam Kapoor put on 40 kilos in 4 months when she was put in a boarding school out of depression.
9. She used to have ten meals a day, two large pizzas all by herself.
10. She was 90 kilos when Sanjay Leela Bhansali offered her ' Saawariya' and he told her you don't have to worry about your weight, you have such a pretty face that you can be shot from al angles.'
11. Anil Kapoor used to call her ' Latino Papita'.

Highlights

  • Both Karan and Sonam are made to guess calories of different food items in a game. Food items like burger, bananas, butter etc. are brought.

  • A rapid fire round is played with Karan and Sonam where Farah asks questions like: To Karan: "Would you prefer 60 kilos Kajol or 36 kilos Kareena in Tashan. He prefers Kajol.

  • More fun filled questions are asked to both of them and they give some interesting answers.

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