Filmmaker Karan Johar’s popular chat show Koffee With Karan has been accused of plagiarism and using content without giving due credit. On Friday, writer-journalist Manya Lohit Ahuja posted that the show’s recent episode, featuring actors Janhvi Kapoor and Sara Ali Khan, had content — in its quiz segment — that she had created for a portal in 2020. Ahuja added that it was used without her permission and she wasn’t given any credit either.

The two actors were asked to guess films based on ‘badly described plots’ during the quiz segment by Johar. One of the questions he asked had his film Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham’s (2001) plot described as, “a grown man who can’t tie his shoelaces ends up accidentally revealing his hidden identity to his former nanny”.

Ahuja shared that bit of video from the episode on Twitter, along with the article she had written, which contained the exact same question. The article titled ‘Calling all Bollywood Buffs: Guess the movie with the help of these badly explained plots’ included the Kabhi Khushi... question, verbatim.

Ahuja captioned the Instagram and Twitter posts, “So #KoffeeWithKaran lifted the IP I started.” She further added, “I came up with this concept and I had a lot of fun writing these but to not be credited just because it was frivolous is not acceptable!? If you lift the copy, give the credit.”

Her Instagram caption further read, “I have decided that I cannot let this go. I want credit for my work — it may not be world-changing work, but it is mine nonetheless.”

We tried reaching out to the OTT platform that airs the show, Johar’s representatives, and Ahuja herself. None of them replied till the time we went to press.