Karan Johar to dad twins

Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar has become the single parent of twins -- a girl and a boy-- born through surrogacy last month.

The director-producer wasn't in the city to confirm the news, but civic officials said the births were registered with its public health department on Friday.

"The birth registrations were done on Friday," BMC executive health officer Dr Padmaja Keskar said. TOI confirmed this from the central government website for birth and death registrations. The twins were born at Masrani Hospital in Andheri (West) on February 7. However, Johar hasn't yet informed the BMC about the names of his children. A high-ranking BMC official said the children were registered in their birth record as a "baby girl" and "baby boy". Johar's close friend actor Shah Rukh Khan's third baby, Abram, too, was born in the same hospital to a surrogate mother.

Civic officials said the birth registration details listed Johar as the children's father, but there is no mention of the mother's name.

In his recently released autobiography, 'An Unsuitable Boy', Karan Johar had expressed a desire to adopt a child or have a surrogate child as his old-age insurance policy.

"I don't know what I'm going to do about it but I feel like I would like to be a parent. I don't know how it's going to happen but I do feel the need because I have plenty of love to offer and I'd like to take it forward. This feeling needs a release and requires a platform. And that platform could be by being a parent," he had said during the release of his book.