It seemed like our entire country has united under one word- ‘Aww‘ after Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh smashed the goodwill coconut of Koffee With Karan’s season 8.
The single GenZ girls must have started their manifestation practices to attract a boyfriend like Ranveer whether or not they are Deepika Padukone. The good news is they can still try. Wonder what the married ones are thinking.
What’s Wrong with Karan??
The host of this show is the most trolled human in the film Industry. Yet, his show is the most awaited one. Nobody admits it out loud, but Disney+hotstar knows it, Karan Johar knows it and this season, even Cadbury, Audi, and Tata’s Coffee beans know it.
- A handsome mosquito (starting with an invisible ‘K’) has bitten Karan Johar this year which has completely altered his conscience (with a ‘K’). He never once did his signature neck twists and eyebrow dances after sporting those moves in the theme song.
- He swapped his colorful, funky clothes with the couch and wore plain monochrome.
- He did not throw off puzzling comments that hint at the fact that he knows something we don’t know about his guests and he is dying to tell us that he knows something that we don’t know, but can’t.
- He made no run for his wordplay to trap his guests into revealing their secrets.
- He did not ask DeepVeer to rate other actors.
- He didn’t ask criminal questions like who will you hook up with, marry and kill. Why does he ask this question and why do his guests answer it? They are actors, not psychopaths for heaven’s sake!
- He did not ask his 10-times-more-famous-than-him-guests to play his game of asking them to call sleepy stars and say ‘Hey Karan, it’s me.’
Ranveer was right to say- what is even happening here.
The Bollywood Royalty
It only seems apt that after 11 years of being together, Deep-Veer chose now to talk about their love story which started with pulling a crab out of The Deepika Padukone’s sparkly teeth. Practice before you preach, they did.
The man sat near his wife, cozily slumping on her, while his lady sat too upright diagonally without any back support, the entire episode. In case he gave out too much information, the wife had a hand over the husband’s leg to immediately slap him. Ranveer’s enthusiasm while narrating their love story made me think that Deepika had him on a leash all these years and banned him from talking.
In the wedding video, I loved how Deepika’s father said ‘We are all quiet people and he is so different’. And then added, ‘But it’s good. We four are so boring.’ I could feel the ground of the Padukone house shake when Ranveer steps into his in-laws’ house. The family must have been so dumbfounded to know that their quiet daughter chose a Naruto for a lifetime.
I am no fashionista but l always wondered why Deepika Padukone has her hair tied up in tight buns in most of her appearances. I have a theory now. It’s probably the same reason she has for Ranveer’s dressing sense- that sober, single-shade clothes will bring out his persona more strongly. She is such a boss lady, she won’t even let her long and strong, flying hair steal her glory and aura.
Of all the marketing moves KJo might have pulled to wipe out the red in his ledger, his talk about the video, his vulnerability and his mental health did the trick. For once, he made his audience tear up for him.
I’d say watch this episode, not for the lady and the men in black, but to convince yourself that the most successful, beautiful, rich people can have mental health issues and it’s alright to ask for help loudly. Or at least have a Ranveer Singh on the side.
Okay bye, now let me go tear a page from Deep-Veer’s little book of love, put on my favorite music, and dance until 4 in the morning.
