Koffee with Karan [1] is an Indian talk show on Disney+ Hotstar (previously broadcast on Star World India). Debuting on 19 November 2004, the show is hosted by film producer, director, and television personality Karan Johar and is produced by Dharmatic, the digital content division of his production company, Dharma Productions. [lower-alpha 1] [3] The show is distributed by Disney Star [lower-alpha 2] and its first six seasons aired on Star World (2004–2019) with the second season being simulcasted on Star One (2007). In 2022, Koffee with Karan moved over to Disney+ Hotstar as a streaming exclusive under the Hotstar Specials label, with the seventh season airing on the streaming platform. [4]
Series | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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First aired | Last aired | |||
1 | 25 | 19 November 2004 | 27 May 2005 | |
2 | 26 | 11 February 2007 | 16 September 2007 | |
3 | 22 | 7 November 2010 | 17 April 2011 | |
4 | 20 | 1 December 2013 | 13 April 2014 | |
5 | 20 | 6 November 2016 | 19 March 2017 | |
6 | 22 | 21 October 2018 | 17 March 2019 | |
7 | 13 | 7 July 2022 | 29 September 2022 | |
8 | 13 | 26 October 2023 | 18 January 2024 |
No. overall | No. in season | Guests | Original air date [5] |
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1 | 1 | Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol | 19 November 2004 |
2 | 2 | Aishwarya Rai and Sanjay Leela Bhansali | 26 November 2004 |
3 | 3 | Preity Zinta and Saif Ali Khan | 3 December 2004 |
4 | 4 | Rani Mukerji and Kareena Kapoor | 10 December 2004 |
5 | 5 | Fardeen Khan and Zayed Khan | 17 December 2004 |
6 | 6 | Gurinder Chadha and Farah Khan | 24 December 2004 |
7 | 7 | Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan | 7 January 2005 |
8 | 8 | Gauri Khan, Sussanne Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, and Hrithik Roshan | 14 January 2005 |
9 | 9 | Bipasha Basu and Lara Dutta | 21 January 2005 |
10 | 10 | Ekta Kapoor, Sunita Menon, and Manish Malhotra | 28 January 2005 |
11 | 11 | Sushmita Sen and Sanjay Dutt | 4 February 2005 |
12 | 12 | Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar, and Uday Chopra | 11 February 2005 |
13 | 13 | Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol | 18 February 2005 |
14 | 14 | Shabana Azmi and Shobhaa De | 4 March 2005 |
15 | 15 | Abhishek Bachchan and Preity Zinta | 11 March 2005 |
16 | 16 | Konkana Sen Sharma and Rahul Bose | 18 March 2005 |
17 | 17 | Priyanka Chopra and Arjun Rampal | 25 March 2005 |
18 | 18 | Smriti Irani and Sakshi Tanwar | 1 April 2005 |
19 | 19 | Vivek Oberoi and John Abraham | 8 April 2005 |
20 | 20 | Malaika Arora Khan, Amrita Arora, and Dino Morea | 22 April 2005 |
21 | 21 | Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh | 29 April 2005 |
22 | 22 | Esha Deol and Shahid Kapoor | 6 May 2005 |
23 | 23 | Hema Malini and Zeenat Aman | 13 May 2005 |
24 | 24 | Special Episode | 20 May 2005 |
25 | 25 | Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Farhan Akhtar, Farah Khan, Kajol, and Jaya Bachchan | 27 May 2005 |
No. overall | No. in season | Guests | Original air date [7] |
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52 | 1 | Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan | 7 November 2010 |
53 | 2 | Ranbir Kapoor and Imran Khan | 14 November 2010 |
54 | 3 | Deepika Padukone and Sonam Kapoor | 21 November 2010 |
55 | 4 | Farah Khan, Rajkumar Hirani, and Imtiaz Ali | 28 November 2010 |
56 | 5 | Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan | 5 December 2010 |
57 | 6 | Anil Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, and Kangana Ranaut | 12 December 2010 |
58 | 7 | Priyanka Chopra and Shahid Kapoor | 19 December 2010 |
59 | 8 | Amitabh Bachchan and Shweta Bachchan Nanda | 26 December 2010 |
60 | 9 | Shah Rukh Khan | 2 January 2011 |
61 | 10 | Rani Mukerji and Vidya Balan | 9 January 2011 |
62 | 11 | Lara Dutta and Mahesh Bhupathi | 16 January 2011 |
63 | 12 | Hrithik Roshan and Sussanne Khan | 23 January 2011 |
64 | 13 | Ajay Devgn | 30 January 2011 |
65 | 14 | Special Episode | 6 February 2011 |
66 | 15 | Ritesh Deshmukh, Boman Irani, and Sajid Khan | 13 February 2011 |
67 | 16 | Anushka Sharma and Ranveer Singh | 20 February 2011 |
68 | 17 | Madhuri Dixit and Sonakshi Sinha | 27 February 2011 |
69 | 18 | John Abraham | 20 March 2011 |
70 | 19 | Farhan Akhtar and Zoya Akhtar | 27 March 2011 |
71 | 20 | Ekta Kapoor and Tusshar Kapoor | 3 April 2011 |
72 | 21 | Best of Season 3 | 10 April 2011 |
73 | 22 | Koffee Awards with Rajeev Masand, Koel Purie Rinchet, Manish Malhotra, and Sarita Tanwar | 17 April 2011 |
No. overall | No. in season | Guests | Original air date [8] |
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74 | 1 | Salman Khan and Salim Khan | 1 December 2013 |
75 | 2 | Ranbir Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor Khan | 8 December 2013 |
76 | 3 | Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao | 15 December 2013 |
77 | 4 | Ranveer Singh, Arjun Kapoor, and Shanoo Sharma | 22 December 2013 |
78 | 5 | Sidharth Malhotra, Alia Bhatt, and Varun Dhawan | 29 December 2013 |
79 | 6 | Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone | 5 January 2014 |
80 | 7 | Farhan Akhtar and Vidya Balan | 12 January 2014 |
81 | 8 | Akshay Kumar | 19 January 2014 |
82 | 9 | Emraan Hashmi and Mahesh Bhatt | 26 January 2014 |
83 | 10 | Sonakshi Sinha and Shahid Kapoor | 2 February 2014 |
84 | 11 | Anushka Sharma and Anurag Kashyap | 9 February 2014 |
85 | 12 | Abhishek Bachchan and Farah Khan | 16 February 2014 |
86 | 13 | Juhi Chawla and Madhuri Dixit | 23 February 2014 |
87 | 14 | Freida Pinto and Nargis Fakhri | 2 March 2014 |
88 | 15 | Aditya Roy Kapur and Shraddha Kapoor | 9 March 2014 |
89 | 16 | Kajol and Ayan Mukerji | 16 March 2014 |
90 | 17 | Rohit Shetty and Zoya Akhtar | 23 March 2014 |
91 | 18 | Anil Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor | 30 March 2014 |
92 | 19 | Parineeti Chopra and Alia Bhatt | 6 April 2014 |
93 | 20 | Best of Season 4 | 13 April 2014 |
No. overall | No. in season | Guests | Original air date [9] |
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94 | 1 | Shah Rukh Khan and Alia Bhatt | 6 November 2016 |
95 | 2 | Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna | 13 November 2016 |
96 | 3 | Arjun Kapoor and Varun Dhawan | 20 November 2016 |
97 | 4 | Ranbir Kapoor and Ranveer Singh | 27 November 2016 |
98 | 5 | Aditya Roy Kapur and Parineeti Chopra | 4 December 2016 |
99 [lower-alpha 3] | 6 | Salman Khan, Arbaaz Khan and Sohail Khan | 11 December 2016 |
100 | 7 | Aamir Khan, Fatima Sana Shaikh, and Sanya Malhotra | 18 December 2016 |
101 | 8 | Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma | 25 December 2016 |
102 | 9 | Shahid Kapoor and Mira Rajput | 1 January 2017 |
103 | 10 | Sidharth Malhotra and Jacqueline Fernandez | 8 January 2017 |
104 | 11 | Kareena Kapoor Khan and Sonam Kapoor | 15 January 2017 |
105 | 12 | Priyanka Chopra | 22 January 2017 |
106 | 13 | Jackie Shroff and Tiger Shroff | 29 January 2017 |
107 | 14 | Farah Khan and Sania Mirza | 5 February 2017 |
108 | 15 | Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt | 12 February 2017 |
109 | 16 | Saif Ali Khan, Kangana Ranaut, and Shahid Kapoor | 19 February 2017 |
110 | 17 | Zoya Akhtar, Kabir Khan, and Imtiaz Ali | 26 February 2017 |
111 | 18 | Kapil Sharma | 5 March 2017 |
112 | 19 | Koffee Awards with Neha Dhupia, Malaika Arora, Ayan Mukerji, and Rohan Joshi | 12 March 2017 |
113 | 20 | Best of Season 5 | 19 March 2017 |
No. overall | No. in season | Guests | Original air date [10] |
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114 | 1 | Deepika Padukone and Alia Bhatt | 21 October 2018 |
115 | 2 | Akshay Kumar and Ranveer Singh | 28 October 2018 |
116 | 3 | Aamir Khan | 4 November 2018 |
117 | 4 | Katrina Kaif and Varun Dhawan | 11 November 2018 |
118 | 5 | Saif Ali Khan and Sara Ali Khan | 18 November 2018 |
119 | 6 | Arjun Kapoor and Janhvi Kapoor | 25 November 2018 |
120 | 7 | Ajay Devgn and Kajol | 2 December 2018 |
121 | 8 | Badshah and Diljit Dosanjh | 9 December 2018 |
122 | 9 | Ayushmann Khurrana and Vicky Kaushal | 16 December 2018 |
123 | 10 | Prabhas, S. S. Rajamouli and Rana Daggubati | 23 December 2018 |
124 | 11 | Sonam Kapoor, Rhea Kapoor and Harshvardhan Kapoor | 30 December 2018 |
125 | 12 | K. L. Rahul and Hardik Pandya | 6 January 2019 [11] |
126 | 13 | Shahid Kapoor and Ishaan Khatter | 13 January 2019 |
127 | 14 | Abhishek Bachchan and Shweta Bachchan Nanda | 20 January 2019 |
128 | 15 | Rajkummar Rao and Bhumi Pednekar | 27 January 2019 |
129 | 16 | Sidharth Malhotra and Aditya Roy Kapur | 3 February 2019 |
130 | 17 | Kriti Sanon and Kartik Aaryan | 10 February 2019 |
131 | 18 | Tiger Shroff, Tara Sutaria and Ananya Panday | 17 February 2019 |
132 | 19 | Kareena Kapoor Khan and Priyanka Chopra | 24 February 2019 |
133 | 20 | Koffee Awards with Kirron Kher, Malaika Arora, Vir Das and Mallika Dua | 3 March 2019 |
134 | 21 | Unseen Koffee Konfessions | 10 March 2019 |
135 | 22 | A Peek into Celeb Life (Best of Season 6) | 17 March 2019 |
No. overall | No. in season | Guests | Original air date [12] |
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136 | 1 | Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt | 7 July 2022 |
137 | 2 | Sara Ali Khan and Janhvi Kapoor | 14 July 2022 |
138 | 3 | Akshay Kumar and Samantha Ruth Prabhu | 21 July 2022 |
139 | 4 | Vijay Deverakonda and Ananya Panday | 28 July 2022 |
140 | 5 | Aamir Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan | 4 August 2022 |
141 | 6 | Sonam Kapoor and Arjun Kapoor | 11 August 2022 |
142 | 7 | Vicky Kaushal and Sidharth Malhotra | 18 August 2022 |
143 [lower-alpha 4] | 8 | Shahid Kapoor and Kiara Advani | 25 August 2022 |
144 | 9 | Kriti Sanon and Tiger Shroff | 1 September 2022 |
145 | 10 | Katrina Kaif, Siddhant Chaturvedi and Ishaan Khatter | 8 September 2022 |
146 | 11 | Anil Kapoor and Varun Dhawan | 15 September 2022 |
147 | 12 | Gauri Khan, Bhavana Panday and Maheep Kapoor | 22 September 2022 |
148 | 13 | Koffee Awards with Tanmay Bhat, Danish Sait, Kusha Kapila and Niharika NM | 29 September 2022 |
No. overall | No. in season | Guests | Original air date [13] |
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149 | 1 | Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh | 26 October 2023 |
150 | 2 | Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol | 2 November 2023 |
151 | 3 | Sara Ali Khan and Ananya Panday | 9 November 2023 |
152 | 4 | Kareena Kapoor Khan and Alia Bhatt | 16 November 2023 |
153 | 5 | Varun Dhawan and Sidharth Malhotra | 23 November 2023 |
154 | 6 | Rani Mukerji and Kajol | 30 November 2023 |
155 | 7 | Vicky Kaushal and Kiara Advani | 7 December 2023 |
156 | 8 | Aditya Roy Kapur and Arjun Kapoor | 14 December 2023 |
157 | 9 | Ajay Devgn and Rohit Shetty | 21 December 2023 |
158 | 10 | Sharmila Tagore and Saif Ali Khan | 28 December 2023 |
159 | 11 | Janhvi Kapoor and Khushi Kapoor | 4 January 2024 |
160 | 12 | Neetu Singh and Zeenat Aman | 11 January 2024 |
161 | 13 | Koffee Awards with Tanmay Bhat, Danish Sait, Kusha Kapila, Sumukhi Suresh and Orhan Awatramani | 18 January 2024 |
From time to time, Johar has shot some special episodes (each with a unique title) during breaks between the main seasons to promote the release of then upcoming films and series by Dharma Productions.
Year | Title | Guest(s) | Featured promotion | Ref. |
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2008 | "Date with Dostana" | Priyanka Chopra, John Abraham and Abhishek Bachchan | Promotion of Dostana | [14] |
2009 | "Date with Sid" | Ranbir Kapoor and Konkona Sen Sharma | Promotion of Wake up Sid | [15] |
2009 | "Date with Kurbaan" | Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan | Promotion of Kurbaan | [16] |
2010 | "Date with Family" | Kajol and Kareena Kapoor Khan | Promotion of We Are Family | [17] |
2012 | "Date with Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu" | Imran Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan | Promotion of Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu | [18] |
2014 | "Date with Humpty & Dulhania" | Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt | Promotion of Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania | [19] |
2021 | "Koffee Shots with the Empire" | Kunal Kapoor, Dino Morea and Drashti Dhami | Promotion of The Empire | [20] |
"Koffee Shots with Atrangi Re" | Dhanush and Sara Ali Khan | Promotion of Atrangi Re | [21] |
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