Karan Johar's much awaited next film

Karan Johar had taken a backseat and is making a comeback into direction after a long hiatus with My Name is Khan. His third film as a director and fourth film as writer; Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna came way back in 2005.

However, he has been into production since long with his last hit being Dostana 2008.

Karan has chosen to reach out to a global non-NRI audiences with his next film My Name is Khan. This Indian drama is based on a true story. It has a screenplay by Shibani Bathija, and stars Khan and Kajol. The musical trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy composed the film's score.Cinematography is by Ravi K. Chandran.
The film is slated for a December 2009 release.

The boy to play the childhood section of Shah Rukh’s life in the film is not only because of his facial likeness to Shah Rukh, but also because of the Tanay’s instant connectivity with the Mumbai slums and thereafter the Western audience.Karan now intends to cast Tanay as junior SRK whenever required, much in the way that Master Mayur played the young Amitabh Bachchan in a series of films.

Karan’s exposition on the Muslim identity will be experienced through this film.Though the take-off point for My Name Is Khan is 9/11 not a single shot is taken in New York.

The film is set in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Two of the most expensove cities in the US for shooting. While Karan Johar’s production of Rensil de Silva’s Kareena-Saif film on terrorism will have Philadelphia masquerading as New York , Johar’s own directorial take on terrorism and the isolation of the working-class Muslim has gone to the two actual US cities were the plot is location .

Karan shot in LA earlier this year. He will leave for San Francisco in May for a 40-day schedule. Putting his shoulder surgery behind him Shah Rukh with best friend Karan Johar and favourite co-star Kajol to accompany him, would be gone to San Francisco for 40 days in May and June .The first and last Hindi film to be shot in SF was Imtiaz Ali’s Love Aaj Kal.

With Aamir Khan vacationing with his children out of the country, the two purported architects and mediator Karan Johar for the solution for the multiplex crisis are all out of the loop putting a large question mark before the deadlock that threatens to shut the film industry.