'It was the beginning of our friendship': Karan Johar reveals Kajol had a 'big crush' on Akshay Kumar

Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar and actress Kajol are known to be best of friends as they are have got each other's back for years now. A trait of the actor-filmmaker's friendship is taking digs at each other, and those fun-filled banters set major 'friendship goals' for the fans. 

As the celebrity duo recently appeared in a chat show together they spilt quite a few the beans about each-other and in one of the most interesting was a revelation made by Karan Johar who said that Kajol once had a huge crush on her 'Yeh Dillagi' co-actor Akshay Kumar.

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While talking about how they became friends, Karan said that they met for the second time on the premiere of 'Henna' and at that time as Kajol had a huge crush on Akshay, she was busy searching for him throughout the party. Their friendship grew when Karan came forward for help and assisted her for the same. 

For the unversed, Kajol and KJo have been friends ever since the latter was an assistant director (also actor) on ‘Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge’. They later delivered successes on the director’s first two films ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’, ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham’ and then ‘My Name is Khan’, apart from his production ‘We are Family’. She was often considered his ‘lucky mascot’ and even made cameos in ‘Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna’ and ‘Student of the Year.’ 

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However, they drifted apart around the time Karan’s ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’ and Kajol’s husband Ajay Devgn's 'Shivaay' were locked in a box office war during Diwali 2016. The couple expressing shock over an audio clip of Kamaal R Khan claiming KJo paid him 25 lakhs to run down ‘Shivaay’ made matters worse. Karan even wrote about the rift in his autobiography. However, Karan and Kajol patched up after the filmmaker became a father. Even Ajay appeared on ‘Koffee with Karan.’