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'He will think you are a bad person', Filmmaker Karan Johar shares OCD insights of SRK

Karan Johar shares a humorous detail, saying, 'Shah Rukh Khan has OCD'.

By Punam Chakraborty

Dec 23, 2025 18:25 IST

Shah Rukh Khan, also known as the badshaah of Bollywood, is loved for his versatile acting, intelligence, sense of humour, and romance, and he lives in the hearts of millions of people, from children to the elderly.

Recently, on the manyavar shaadi show, filmmaker Karan Johar revealed that besides his charming acting career, he has some unique personal habits. SRK's close friend revealed surprisingly funny information about the actor. According to him, Shah Rukh has a serious obsession with one thing, which is the fit of jeans.

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Karan Johar talks about Shah Rukh Khan's OCD

In that show, Karan opened up about Shah Rukh Khan's unique habit. He says, "He (Shah Rukh Khan) has OCD about the fit of the jeans." According to Karan, SRK is particular about the jeans, even noting the tiniest details, when it comes to denim, and believes that well-fitted jeans say a lot about a person.

Karan also added, "He can judge you if you wear badly-fitted jeans. He will think you are a bad person."

Karan Johar recalls the memory of SRK on the DDLJ sets

Karan Johar shared that the obsession started during the initial days of Shah Rukh's career on the sets of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenhe. In those days, Karan Johar worked as an assistant director, also responsible for Shah Rukh's clothes. After observing Srk's body type, Karan advised him to switch to another brand of jeans that would suit him better. Although that brand was not available in India at that time in 1994.

Shah Rukh Khan did not agree with his advice at first. remembered that time, Karan said that SRK reacted, saying, "Kaun pagal aa gaya hai? Kaha se aaya hai? Why is he giving me this advice?" (Who is that mad person? Where did he come from?)

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SRK later went to Aditya Chopra for his guidance. According to Karan, Aditya told him, "Yeh South Bombay se aaya hai inn logon ko pata hota hai." (He is from South Bombay; these people know it.)

Karan concluded the story in comedy way, he also revealed that since then, Srk has been obsessed with denims, even nowadays when he visits Mannat, he feels the pressure, shared a another funny incident, he said "He is that crazy Jeans ko dekhkar (after seeing a jeans) he can so everytime I go to Mannat, I say I am not wearing jeans, he will give me that eye and ask 'Kaha se mili ye jeans? (Where did you get these jeans?) ' and I know, I am like 'Oh God!'"

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