The common age of visitors on Koffee with Karan over time has solely been reducing. Do you keep in mind the final senior citizen who graced the Koffee sofa? Well, technically, it was Sunny Deol this season. He’s 65, regardless of giving a large blockbuster as a number one man this yr – and taking part in with teddy bears. (Also Read: Koffee with Karan Season 8: Karan Johar does not go down and soiled with sons of the soil Ajay Devgn, Rohit Shetty)
The cut-off age
In truth, 65 appeared to be the higher age restrict of visitors throughout the season – with the likes of Amitabh Bachchan, Javed Akhtar, and Anil Kapoor hovering round that mark after they final appeared on the chat present in Season 3, 2, and seven respectively. Amitabh was 67, a little bit above the cut-off age when he final appeared on the chat present 5 seasons in the past.
Cut to the newest episode on Season 8: the place the 79-year-old Sharmila Tagore graced the sofa with all her grey-hair knowledge, old-world allure, and youthful prospers intact. Her modern Amitabh Bachchan is 81 now, is pulling off 4 movies a yr, and sprinting to his seat on Kaun Banega Crorepati, however has been away from the Koffee sofa for seven years now, the place he was a fixture for the primary three seasons.
The solely previous exception to the 65 rule is veteran screenwriter Salim Khan, who was 78 when he appeared as a visitor on the inaugural episode of Koffee with Karan Season 4 alongside his son Salman Khan. But that was extra of a particular shock look for Salman within the final section, as an alternative of it being a full-episode drill. The distinction between Amitabh’s age on his final look (67) and Sharmila’s newest look (79) is 12 years! That additionally makes her the primary septuagenarian to have appeared on the present.
Old-world allure
Don’t get me mistaken: Actors, filmmakers, and celebrities from that era, who’re septuagenarians now, have been invited quite a few instances to the present throughout the seasons. Shabana Azmi, Jaya Bachchan, Hema Malini, Zeenat Aman, late Rishi Kapoor, Mahesh Bhatt, Richard Gere, and Shobhaa De have all appeared on the present – some even twice. But the previous 4 seasons have been obsessive about the youth and have a Gen-Z gaze throughout them, particularly for the reason that present switched utterly to Disney+ Hotstar from the now-defunct Star World.
Karan Johar has additionally fed into this Gen-Z focus for the reason that present is co-owned by his digital wing Dharmatic Entertainment. He’s self-admittedly notorious for shielding his midlife disaster with embracing the corporate, vogue, and lingo of the Gen-Z. But as he confessed within the final episode with Ajay Devgn and Rohit Shetty, he is an business child who’s deeply steeped into the world of outdated Bollywood, because of his cinema-loving mother and father. Waheeda Rehman and Sadhna had been actually his father’s Rakhi sisters.
Even Karan’s films reserve a particular place for dadi-nani characters. Farida Jalal in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), Achla Sachdev and Himani Shivpuri in Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001), Sushma Seth in Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003), Kirron Kher in Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006), and Farida once more in Student of the Year (2012) – these are all memorable characters essential to their respective narratives. In truth, his final directorial Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani was Kuch Kuch Hota Hai gone septuagenarian with Jaya Bachchan, Shabana and Dharmendra in a love triangle of dadas and dadis.
Gen-Z, take observe
When Karan revealed within the newest episode that he initially approached Sharmila for the position of Shabana, Sharmila defined that she mentioned no as a result of the world was nonetheless grappling with COVID then, she wasn’t vaccinated, and was at immense threat “after my cancer.” She dropped the C-bomb so casually, as casually as she posed in a bikini on the Filmfare journal cowl within the Nineteen Sixties.
Sharmila has all the time maintained a level of nonchalance in these strokes of riot. While she posed in a bikini solely as a result of she felt she “looked good,” she additionally corrected course after backlash by signing a non-glamorous but iconic position of Aradhana (1969) and aced it too. She admitted she would not confess she was in a live-in relationship with Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi in these days, however lauded Saif’s now-wife Kareena Kapoor for saying it to the world when she did over a decade in the past.
The Gen-Z, like all different generations, can be aware of how Sharmila has all the time struck the candy spot between silent riot and cognizant course-correction. She’s aged gracefully whereas remaining younger at coronary heart. A gesture as small as holding her glasses elegantly in her hand speaks volumes on a present the place the host has to clarify carrying studying glasses in each episode. Unlike Karan, Sharmila does not age all the way down to feel and look younger. She simply units new guidelines for what it is prefer to be on the eve of 80.
Like her daughter Soha Ali Khan, 45, and granddaughter Sara Ali Khan, 28, mentioned on the present, Sharmila is extra progressive than them at present. That additionally goes for her pretty forward-thinking son Saif Ali Khan. Seven years after he turned down a homosexual man’s half (Fawad Khan’s) in Shakun Batra’s Kapoor & Sons, Sharmila performed a queer dadi in Rahul V. Chitella’s Gulmohar. Again, the selection got here naturally to her, however she did put her issues on board. That’s most likely what the cocktail of age and expertise convey on board – riot with a shrug of shoulders and reception with a eager ear. We want extra of the identical on Koffee with Karan.
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