Karan Johar recalls falling in love with Sridevi and seeing her for the first time: 'My knees were rattling'

Karan Johar

recently shared his

fanboy moment

with the late actress

Sridevi

on his popular show

Koffee With Karan

8.
In the upcoming episode of the show, Karan opened up about his undying love for

Janhvi Kapoor

and

Khushi Kapoor

's mother Sridevi. He then talked about the first time he met Sridevi in person and was simply mesmerised by her aura.
Karan

began by saying, "I have to say one thing you do know and I've said this time and again about how crazy and madly in love I was with your mother. I was her biggest fan. You all have lived through different beats of technology. But for me, the video phase was the cinema halls. Nobody in the side of town that I lived in used to go and watch Hindi movies. That was the phase where your mom and Jeetu ji did movies. I've seen all of them."

He continued, "The time when I saw her finally, in Mr. India, it was a premiere and the next time in cinema, and I was like, Oh God, I think I'm obsessed. So the first time I met her was actually in 1993 when she did a film for my dad, called Gumrah and I went to this photoshoot that Rakesh Shreshtha was shooting and my knees were rattling, because I was so nervous. My dad introduced me and I don't know what I said or what I have done and that's also the first day I met

Manish Malhotra

in my entire life."

"I thought he was really snooty and snobbish because I said, she's looking fabulous. He was like go, tell her and I was like, I can't just walk up to Sridevi and you're looking great. I couldn't do it,"

KJo

added.
On the work front, Karan marked his comeback to the director's chair with Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani after almost seven years. The film starred Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhatt, Dharmendra, Jaya Bachchan, and Shabana Azmi. The film turned out to be a hit.