SOTY
As Student Of The Year clocks 10 years, Karan Johar has a special message for its cast. Check out
New Delhi/IBNS: As 'Student Of The Year' clocked 10 years on Wednesday, film's director Karan Johar has a special message for the three actors- Alia Bhatt, Sidharth Malhotra and Varun Dhawan-who debuted in Bollywood with this venture.
Karan Johar, in his note, wrote: "SOTY started of as me making a "holiday film"... A film that certainly wasn't intended to move any cinematic mountains but a film that was young , fun and entertaining... What I didn't realise then that this film would give me so much more than memories or a commercial success... would give so much more than a film in my directorial archives... this film gave me three of my most defining relationships."
The filmmaker shared how he found a family in Alia, Varun and Sidharth through the film and he added, "Sid, Varun and Alia went on to become my family...besides my mom they are the three people I think I talk to every single day...
"I never knew way back then that I would have children of my own ...but my first protective parental feeling was for all three of them... I love you SID! I love you VARUN and I love you ALIA (yes yes I know I am not supposed to keep saying it but what the heck love is love )... I say it to my kids and I want to say it to all 3 of you...Love you to the moon and back."
Johar also posted a throwback video, in which he says, "Student Of The Year, to me, is a celebration of everything I love about cinema.... The youth, the zest, the zing, the music, the energy, the comic timing...Everything I have ever loved about Hindi cinema is a part of Student Of The Year.
"It's very cliched to say that we are one happy family because we never really are because everyone is screaming and trying to get work done but this felt like I was an old student in high school," said he.
The filmmaker also shared throwback pictures with Alia Bhatt, Sidharth Malhotra and Varun Dhawan in a separate post and he wrote: "Down the years with my students of every year! So proud of their cinema journey! It's no Raaz(I) that they have mastered the ABCD of their craft and emerged as Shershaahs of goodness and talent! Love you! #10yearsofsoty."
Student Of The Year marked the Bollywood debuts of Alia Bhatt, Sidharth Malhotra and Varun Dhawan. The second installment of the film was released in 2019 and it featured Tiger Shroff, Ananya Panday and Tara Sutaria.
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