In a rare candid admission, veteran filmmaker Sooraj Barjatya opened up about the privileges that shaped his and his contemporaries’ careers, naming himself alongside Aditya Chopra and Karan Johar as “golden spoon people.”
Speaking about their shared backgrounds, the Hum Aapke Hain Koun…! director reflected, “Actually, the three of us are quite in tandem on one point. They are much younger than me, but we are of the same generation, and plus we are golden spoon people. We haven’t seen the ups and downs of life. We have always traveled in cars.”
Barjatya acknowledged that this privileged upbringing influenced their creative choices. “When our time came, we were passionate about filmmaking. So we showed the world fairy tales — and that was the 90s era, where people wanted to see them. We are into one particular kind of cinema. Adi, Karan, and I all love showing dreams. But if asked to depict reality, none of us truly knows that life. To that extent, we are a little spoiled.”
This honest reflection from one of Bollywood’s most successful storytellers offers a rare peek behind the curtain, showing how personal experiences — or the lack thereof — can shape the kind of cinema that defines an era.
