Slam Gopal Varma and Karan Johar have had an uncommon condition with one another on the public stages considering in 2013 RGV watched Understudy of the Year and tweeted, "In the event that somebody takes off from Karan Johar's 'Understudy of the year' and makes 'Educator of the Year', it will end up being the 'Calamity of the Year'." Karan immediately concocted a reaction by means of web-based media and composed, "'Debacle of the Year' is your domain Ramu...no one can at any point supplant the agreeable spot you have made for yourself there." The contention has consistently broken out among them and as of late RGV visit with Bollywood Air pocket to clear his stand. 

"I fundamentally generally approve of anyone including Karan Johar. Since I don't give anyone that a very remarkable thing to cherish or abhor me, it's friendly. Indeed, as of late, when he made the film Bhoot Returns, he asked me for the title, I promptly gave it and he said thanks to me over Twitter. So I don't object to anyone." The film RGV is alluding to is Bhoot Section One: The Spooky Boat which delivered in 2020 featuring Vicky Kaushal and failed to meet expectations in the cinema world. The RGV's Bhoot featuring Ajay Devgn and Urmila Matondkar came out to rave audits in 2003 and frequently alluded to as the best thriller in Hindi film. 

At a press occasion in 2020 in regards to Bhoot Section One: The Spooky Boat, Karan Johar said that in 25 years of his reality in the entertainment world he has never seen such tremendous liberality as when RGV gave him the title. After SSR's passing, RGV has tweeted for Karan Johar when he was blamed for nepotism line.