When EXO fans in India saw the two of them together at a fashion show in 2018, they were ecstatic. But did you know that Karan mistook fans cheering for EXO for his own, only to discover that ‘not a single human' was rooting for him?
In an interview with Janice on the show Social Media Star, Karan remembered, “I was inundated with (messages) like ‘Kai, this K-pop star from EXO, is attending the show, you gotta take a selfie, you gotta take a selfie, you gotta take a selfie’ and I was like, I kid you not, there were at least 3,000 mentions and I was inundated, like I was with Reshma, as in Reshma Shetty (celebrity manager), I was like ‘Reshma, who is this person?’ K-pop I had heard of upar upar se, I had no idea about the teenage craziness.”
Karan then announced that he and his team went to the venue to search for Kai but were unsuccessful. EXO star, “We were looking at everybody and I just couldn’t (find him). Then I said, ‘you know I am going to walk outside and he’s not there, let’s leave.’ We’ve gone outside and there were like screaming people. I was like, ‘You know Reshma, there are a lot of people who have seen Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham in Paris and that’s why this crowd is screaming.’ She says, "Karan this is not for you.”
But Karan was taken aback when he learned that all the fans were for Kai and none for him, but Natasha Poonawalla eventually assisted the filmmaker in chatting up Kai and eventually getting a photo together, “I went there, she tapped him, he was very sweet, he said, ‘Yes, yes, I know,’ because he was also sent the same kind of, he had read the same thing on social media. Very sweetly we chatted and he clicked this selfie and that is how this happened.”
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Karan continues to follow him on Instagram two and a half years after the incident. Kai, on the other hand, doesn't follow anyone on Insta.
Xiumin, Suho, Lay, Baekhyun, Chen, Chanyeol, D.O., and Sehun are among the EXO participants. The band's hits include Ko Ko Bop, Love Shot, Monster, and a slew of others.