David Dhawan

Born Rajinder Dhawan
16 August 1960 (age 51)
Jalandhar, Punjab, India Occupation Film director

David Dhawan (born Rajinder Dhawan in Jalandhar, Punjab, India) is an Indian film director. He has studied at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune.

Career

Dhawan started off as an editor and then took the plunge into directing. He specializes in directing comedy films, most of which have featured either Govinda, Salman Khan, Anil Kapoor or Sanjay Dutt in lead roles, along with Raveena Tandon, Karisma Kapoor and Juhi Chawla playing the leading actresses. Kader Khan, Shakti Kapoor, Johnny Lever and Paresh Rawal appear in his films playing supporting roles. His biggest success to date is the 1993 film Aankhen, starring Govinda and Chunkey Pandey. His film, Partner (2007) also became a big success at the box office. Dhawan is considered one of the most successful directors in Bollywood, but he has been at many times blamed for copying Hollywood and South Indian films. He once had two of his films released on the same date and both did well. Dhawan is on the board of Asian Academy Of Film & Television and Asian School Of Media Studies where he has been honoured with an Academy Award by Sandeep Marwah. He was also a Judge on the Star Plus show Nach Baliye 3 in 2008 and on the show Hans Baliye.

Personal life

Dhawan is married to Karuna Dhawan and has two children, Rohit and Varun. Rohit has debuted as a director with the film Desi Boyz, while Varun will be launched as an actor in Karan Johar's film Student Of The Year. Dhawan's brother is actor Anil Dhawan.

Filmography

As director

Year	Film	Cast
1989	Aandhiyan	Shatrughan Sinha, Mumtaz, Prasenjit Chatterjee
	Taaqatwar	Sanjay Dutt, Govinda, Neelam, Anita Raj
1990	Swarg	Rajesh Khanna, Govinda, Juhi Chawla
	Aag Ka Gola	Sunny Deol
	Jurrat	Kumar Gaurav, Anita Raj, Shatrughan Sinha
1992	Shola Aur Shabnam	Govinda, Divya Bharti
	Bol Radha Bol	Rishi Kapoor, Juhi Chawla
1993	Aankhen	Govinda, Chunky Pandey
1994	Raja Babu	Govinda, Karisma Kapoor
	Eena Meena Deeka	Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Juhi Chawla
	Andaz	Anil Kapoor, Karisma Kapoor, Juhi Chawla
1995	Yaraana	Rishi Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, Raj Babbar
	Coolie No. 1	Govinda, Karishma Kapoor, Kader Khan
1996	Loafer	Anil Kapoor, Juhi Chawla
1997	Mr and Mrs Khiladi	Akshay Kumar, Juhi Chawla
	Banarasi Babu	Govinda, Ramya, Kader Khan
	Judwaa	Salman Khan, Karishma Kapoor, Rambha
	Deewana Mastana	Anil Kapoor, Govinda, Juhi Chawla
	Saajan Chale Sasural	Govinda, Karisma Kapoor, Tabu
1998	Bade Miyan Chote Miyan	Amitabh Bachchan, Govinda
	Hero No. 1	Govinda, Karishma Kapoor, Paresh Rawal
1999	Gharwali Bharwali	Anil Kapoor, Raveena Tandon, Rambha
	Biwi No.1	Salman Khan, Karisma Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Tabu, Sushmita Sen
	Haseena Maan Jaayegi	Sanjay Dutt, Govinda, Karisma Kapoor, Pooja Batra
2000	Dulhan Hum Le Jayenge	Salman Khan, Karisma Kapoor
	Kunwara	Govinda, Urmila Matondkar, Om Puri, Kader Khan
	Chal Mere Bhai	Sanjay Dutt, Salman Khan, Karishma Kapoor
2001	Jodi No.1	Sanjay Dutt, Govinda, Twinkle Khanna, Monica Bedi
2002	Chor Machaaye Shor	Bobby Deol, Bipasha Basu, Shilpa Shetty
	Yeh Hai Jalwa	Salman Khan, Amisha Patel, Rishi Kapoor
	Hum Kisise Kum Nahi	Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgan, Aishwarya Rai
2003	Ek Aur Ek Gyarah	Sanjay Dutt, Govinda, Jackie Shroff
2004	Mujhse Shaadi Karogi	Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar, Priyanka Chopra
2005	Shaadi No. 1	Sanjay Dutt, Fardeen Khan, Zayed Khan, Sharman Joshi, Ayesha Takia, Esha Deol, Soha Ali Khan, Riya Sen, Aarti Chabria
	Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya	Salman Khan, Sushmita Sen, Katrina Kaif, Arshad Warsi
2007	Partner	Salman Khan, Govinda, Lara Dutta, Katrina Kaif
2009	Do Knot Disturb	Govinda, Ritesh Deshmukh, Lara Dutta, Sushmita Sen
2011	Rascals	Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgan, Kangana Ranaut
	Sanki	Salman Khan, Sonakshi Sinha
2012	Chashme Buddoor (2012 film)	Ali Zafar, Tapsee Pannu, Siddharth Narayan, Rishi Kapoor