Karan Johar plays a flamboyant journalist in Bombay Velvet

It’s in news that Karan Johar is featuring in Anurag Kashyap’s Bombay Velvet. Now, we report the kind of role the head honcho of Dharma Productions is playing in the movie. Karan plays the role of Kaizad Khambatta, a quick-witted, impeccably dressed flamboyant journalist. It is said that his character is based on R K Karanjia, popularly known as Russi Karanjia, the founder-editor of India's first weekly tabloid Blitz. It may be remembered that the noted director has earlier played cameos in films like Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Salaam -e-Ishq and Luck By Chance. Reportedly, the story of the film that is based on historian Gyan Prakash's Mumbai Fables is about how Mumbai became a metropolis against the backdrop of love, violence and jazz music. Co-produced by Fox Star Studios, Bombay Velvet also stars Ranbir Kapoor and Anushka Sharma among others. Bombay Velvet is slated to release on 25 December, next year.