The Mumbai-born filmmaker burst onto the screen with Kuch Kuch Hota Hai in 1998. With its hip conservatism, the film set standards of gloss in the film industry. The sometime actor (he was briefly in Aditya Chopra’s Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge) then went on to direct Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham which showed NRI opulence at its peak. In 2003, Johar wrote and produced Kal Ho Naa Ho, where he stepped into New York for the first time. Karan Johar is one of the most successful and influential producer-directors of his generation.

Canadian supermodel, actor, author, painter and entrepreneur, Saira balances her versatility with a multi-cultural ancestry. She was born to a French-Irish-Canadian mother and a Punjabi father and grew up in Vancouver. When she was 13, she won an Elite Look-of-the-Year contest held in a Los Angeles mall and since then, has gone on to grace the international catwalk and several magazine covers. In 2003, she was Newsweek’s face of global beauty. In leisure, she plays doting mom to son Ramkumar.