{"id":2435942,"date":"2026-05-28T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2435942"},"modified":"2026-05-28T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:56:00","slug":"karan-johar-after-unfollowing-shah-rukh-khan-alia-bhatt-and-other-celebs-karan-johar-says-its-a-digital-detox-hindi-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/karan-johar-after-unfollowing-shah-rukh-khan-alia-bhatt-and-other-celebs-karan-johar-says-its-a-digital-detox-hindi-movie-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Karan Johar: After unfollowing Shah Rukh Khan, Alia Bhatt and other celebs, Karan Johar says, \u2018It\u2019s a digital detox\u2019 | Hindi Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131376228,imgsize-78842,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/karanjohar_1778213354_3892255460992484171_1379632270-1.jpg\" alt=\"After unfollowing Shah Rukh Khan, Alia Bhatt and other celebs, Karan Johar says, \u2018It\u2019s a digital detox\u2019\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>After triggering massive speculation online with his sudden Instagram unfollow spree, filmmaker <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/karan-johar\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Karan Johar<\/a> has finally clarified why several Bollywood celebrities disappeared from his following list. The director-producer revealed that the move was simply part of a \u201cdigital detox\u201d and not linked to any fallout with his industry friends.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>Putting all rumours to rest, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/karan\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Karan<\/a> took to Instagram to clarify that the move had nothing to do with personal issues and was simply part of a social media detox.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/>\u201cIt\u2019s a DIGITAL DETOX!!!! Am unfollowing everyone to reduce my time and energy spent on the gram!!! This can\u2019t be national news for god\u2019s sake&#8230;please clickbait something else! This is irrelevant!\u201d he wrote.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/> <\/p>\n<div data-pos=\"0\" class=\"id-r-component iIpbx undefined  &#10;        \">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Screenshot 2026-05-28 232510\" msid=\"131376265\" width=\"\" title=\"\" placeholdersrc=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/83033472.cms\" imgsize=\"\" resizemode=\"4\" offsetvertical=\"0\" placeholdermsid=\"47529300\" type=\"thumb\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/msid-131376265\/screenshot-2026-05-28-232510.jpg\" data-api-prerender=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h2>Celebrities Karan Johar unfollowed<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, netizens had noticed that several prominent Bollywood names no longer appeared on Karan Johar\u2019s following list. Apart from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/shah-rukh-khan\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Shah Rukh Khan<\/a>, the filmmaker had reportedly unfollowed Kareena Kapoor Khan, Malaika Arora, Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan, Sidharth Malhotra, Kartik Aaryan, Ananya Panday and Manish Malhotra, among others.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/>Interestingly, Priyanka Chopra continued to remain on his following list, which had further fuelled online discussions.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"27\"\/>At one point, Karan\u2019s Instagram account showed that he was following only 78 accounts despite having over 17 million followers on the platform.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"29\"\/> <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"32\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h2>Karan Johar\u2019s upcoming projects<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>On the work front, Karan Johar recently backed Chand Mera Dil, starring Lakshya and Ananya Panday. The film received mixed reviews and saw a modest run at the box office.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"35\"\/>Up next, the filmmaker is producing Naagzilla, starring Kartik Aaryan in the lead role.<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source timesofindia.indiatimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After triggering massive speculation online with his sudden Instagram unfollow spree, filmmaker Karan Johar has finally clarified why several Bollywood celebrities disappeared from his following list. The director-producer revealed that the move was simply part of a \u201cdigital detox\u201d and not linked to any fallout with his industry friends.Putting all rumours to rest, Karan took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2435943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25024,478110,404805,350265,478106,478108,478111,478107,307626,478109],"class_list":["post-2435942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-alia-bhatt","tag-alia-bhatt-instagram-unfollow","tag-karan","tag-karan-johar","tag-karan-johar-digital-detox","tag-karan-johar-instagram-news","tag-karan-johar-priyanka-chopra","tag-karan-johar-unfollowed-celebrities","tag-shah-rukh-khan","tag-shah-rukh-khan-karan-johar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Karan-Johar-After-unfollowing-Shah-Rukh-Khan-Alia-Bhatt-and.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2435942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2435944,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435942\/revisions\/2435944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2435943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}