Controversies
- R. Prasanan criticized Thapar's interview with Gohar Ayub Khan for its hidden motives.
- Jayalalitha, Narendra Modi and Ram Jethmalani have famously walked out of the show complaining about Thapar's style of interviewing them.
- In a year-end role-reversal interview of Karan Thapar, Arun Jaitley accused Thapar of being soft on his interviewees from Pakistan like Asif Ali Zardari when compared to Indian politicians.
- In a similar role-reversal interview with Karan Johar, Thapar acknowledged a continuing tiff with the Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan arising from an interview in which Thapar posed certain personal questions to the actor.
- In a separate interview with Mani Shankar Aiyar, Thapar named his interview with A. R. Rahman as the most unsatisfactory one till date.
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