Kangana kick-started the debate in Bollywood by calling Johar the "flag bearer of nepotism" on his chat show, which led to a war of words between them.
Kher thinks his take on nepotism would have been entirely different if someone had asked him about it before this debate started.
"It's a very generalised statement to make. Now, nepotism has names associated. If someone had asked me this question 20 days back I would have been able to tell something completely different," Kher tells PTI.
Kher, who had no god father or family background in Bollywood when he did his first movie "Saaransh" in 1984, says he has gone through a lot of ups and downs in life to achieve what he has today.
"Life does not offer you a smooth path, you have to go through all bends of ups and downs. It took me three years before I got my first film 'Saaransh' and 10 days before the film, I was thrown out of it.