'My search for love ended when Roohi and Yash were born': Karan Johar pens emotional note on V-Day

In a Facebook post, Johar, who became father to twins through surrogacy in 2017 and had dropped ample hints about him being a gay in his biography, wrote: "Valentines Day for me for many years has been a day I either partied with other singles or then lamented the lack of a relationship or then celebrated my independence and solo status … it’s always been a blend of so many feeling and emotions!"

"But when Roohi and Yash were born I realised my dependency and search for love ended with their arrival into our universe! I celebrate them along with my mother everyday but today is the day to say to all of us parents that we have forever valentines in our children!"

The filmmaker said to him Valentine's Day now is a "paternal love story".

"A paternal love story is the most satisfying, unconditional and exceptionally rewarding! So raise a toast and if no one sends you flowers today send yourself an emoji," he concluded.

Johar became a father to twins Yash and Roohi through surrogacy in February 2017.

The twins were born at Masrani Hospital in Mumbai.

Johar named his son Yash after his father, and his daughter Roohi was named by rearranging his mother's name Hiroo.

KJo's sexual orientation 

In his 2017 book An Unsuitable Boy, which he co-authored with journalist Poonam Saxena, Johar, who has often been deried by the gay community for not going official in clear terms about his homosexuality, almost declared his sexual orientation as he wrote:"Everybody knows what my sexual orientation is, I don’t need to scream it out. If I need to spell 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.”

However, in 2018, in a historic judgement that can be called a milestone in the movement for gay rights in India, the Supreme Court ruled that homosexuality is not a crime in the country anymore with the top court moving to scrap Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, a British era law that treated the practice as unnatural.