Koffee With Karan S7: Writer Accuses Talk Show Host Of Plagiarism; Seeks Due Credit

Accusations of plagiarism and theft without proper acknowledgement to the original author were levelled against Karan Johar's talk show Koffee With Karan. On social media, a writer and journalist, identifying as Manya Lohita Ahuja, said that the KWK episode with Janhvi Kapoor and Sara Ali Khan had taken ideas from her without giving any credit or even acknowledging her. She was talking about the game portion when Janhvi and Sara were asked to identify movies.

Sara and Janhvi had to make film predictions based on poorly disclosed plots in the second episode of KWK Season 7. In that, Karan posed a question from Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham to the two performers who were being challenged to identify the movie based on ill-explained themes. The “badly explained plot” stood as: “A grown man who can’t tie his shoelaces ends up accidentally revealing his hidden identity to his former nanny.” However, Manya published a whole quiz with such questions back in 2020, and one of them was the exact same K3G question that Karan Johar used in his show.

Karan Johar Plagiarism 

The Indian Express reported that the episode's clip and an article Manya Lohit Ahuja wrote for an entertainment portal in 2020 that asked about the same issue were both posted on social media. The K3G question was part of an article headlined Calling all Bollywood Buffs: Guess the Movie with the Help of these Badly Explained Plots.

The author alleged on Twitter that Koffee With Karan stole the question from her writing and utilised it in their episode without giving her any credit. She wrote, "So #KoffeeWithKaran lifted the IP I started at @iDivaOfficial and used the whole copy verbatim??? I came up with this concept and I had a lot of fun writing these but to not be credited just because it was frivolous is not acceptable!?"

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Calling him out, she further added in the comments, "His writing team gets credits for writing silly one-liners used in the show. If they slacked and copy-pasted from my piece, my name should be on the credits. I'm not asking him to personally thank me and touch my feet." She also shared a snippet from the episode to prove her point.