“Speaking your mind in India can land you in jail”

ISLAMABAD: Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar has said that India is a tough country where speaking about personal life can land people behind bars and he did not fight the governance by talking of issues like intolerance.

“We are in a tough country and to speak about one’s personal life in today’s time can land you in jail,” the director-producer said at the ninth edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival.

He was in conversation with author Shobaa De and his biographer Poonam Saxena on his upcoming biography “An Unsuitable Boy.”

“I feel bound on every level be it what I put out on the celluloid or what I say in print.” “I feel like there is always some kind of a legal notice awaiting me everywhere I go,” he added.