Recently, Jigra director Vasan Bala said that Karan Johar sent an incomplete script of his movie to Alia Bhatt without his permission, revealing that he become "no longer happy" about this movement. This revelation led to a backlash against Johar and ignited conversations approximately nepotism and favoritism in Bollywood. Now, Karan has eventually addressed the casting controversy surrounding Jigra and said, "I fold my fingers and tell all people please pay attention and examine complete interviews earlier than making clickbait assumptions". Taking to his Instagram take care of, Johar penned, "Twitter became X and have become my X a while in the past… I broke up with the nauseous noise and muted the unwarranted angst … however social media is like the Lockness monster it’s gets to you even when you may’t see it.. So turned into flooded with Vasan Bala’s interview which he answered with pure innocence and so much love." The filmmaker introduced, "The gore misinterpretation of his remark approximately me sending the script to Alia with out his grammar checks made me snicker initially at the ludicrousness of all of it however now is clearly disturbing me … Vasan remains certainly one of my most proficient and remarkable collaborators and if you see his interview and pay attention his tone you may totally get it! BUT NO … tons ado about nothing is all around the place…"

"I fold my palms and inform all of us please pay attention and study whole interviews before making click on bait assumptions. Loads of Love to all of you," he concluded. Vasan noted that he had sent a instead hard e mail to Johar, describing it as a stream of consciousness in which he definitely jotted down his ideas. He recalled that a few hours later, Karan called him to say that he had already despatched the e-mail to Alia.

Vasan expressed his dissatisfaction, declaring that he became sad with the selection and questioned why it had been despatched in such an unrefined state, noting that he might have at the least done a spell test, corrected the grammar, and likely progressed the hero's entry.