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David Dhawan is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Editor Indian born on 16 august 1960 at Jalandhar (Inde)

David Dhawan

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Birth name Rajinder Dhawan
Nationality Inde
Birth 16 august 1960 (63 years) at Jalandhar (Inde)

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

Best films

The Fighter (2010)
(Producer)

Usually with

Shakti Kapoor
Shakti Kapoor
(27 films)
Kader Khan
Kader Khan
(24 films)
Govinda
Govinda
(20 films)
Anupam Kher
Anupam Kher
(15 films)
Satish Kaushik
Satish Kaushik
(15 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of David Dhawan (64 films)

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Actor

Shaadi No. 1, 2h25
Directed by David Dhawan
Genres Comedy
Actors Fardeen Khan, Zayed Khan, Sharman Joshi, Esha Deol, Soha Ali Khan, Ayesha Takia
Roles Himself (opening credits sequence)
Rating35% 1.772171.772171.772171.772171.77217
Raj Mittal (Fardeen Khan), Veer Saxena (Zayed Khan) and Aryan Kapoor (Sharman Joshi) are unhappy with their respective marriages even though they love their spouses. Their wives Bhavana (Ayesha Takia), Diya (Esha Deol) and Sonia (Soha Ali Khan) are busy with their everyday lives, and their husbands feel ignored by them. Bhavana constantly uses religion as an excuse to not be intimate with her husband, Diya aspires to be an actress for Mr.Y (Rajpal Yadav), and Sonia is a lawyer who is obsessed with doing cases with her partner H.S Gulati (Ali Asgar). the three men try to commit suicide as Veer tries to hang himself on a tree but falls, Aryan drinks expired rat poison and Raj wishes he was run over by a train but their suicide plan does not work until they also meet Kothari (Satish Shah) who is also trying to commit suicide because he had three companyies that have broken down. The three men get a job as Kothari hires them to work for him. Soon the three men come across Kothari's daughters: Madhuri (Riya Sen), Rekha (Aarti Chhabria) and Dimple (Sophie Choudry). It is not long before they are tempted by them. Unfortunately for them Lucky Bhai (Sanjay Dutt) is out to make their life hell and expose them to their unassuming wives. The three men sign a contract as the three beauties have been deceived and that their wives are disappointed at them. Once again the three friends commit suicide by standing on top of a ladder but are left hanging when Kothari tries to cut the ladder with a chainsaw. their wives come but are left hanging to as Lucky Bhai saves them but Raj falls into a lump of dust and junk, Aryan falls through wires and electricity and Kothari and Veer falls into a dog van with a broken arm along with Kothari who falls onto a cement packet. Injured, Veer,Raj and Aryan apoligize to Lucky Bhai as he feels awkward about saving people but has trust in them.
Bade Miyan Chote Miyan
Directed by David Dhawan
Genres Comedy, Action, Musical
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Raveena Tandon, Govinda, Ramya Krishnan, Paresh Rawal, Anupam Kher
Roles Self (uncredited)
Rating58% 2.9491252.9491252.9491252.9491252.949125
A woman Neha (Ramya Krishnan) witnesses the murder of a friend of her named Madhu (Divya Dutta) by a notorious smuggler Zorawar (Paresh Rawal) but she skips while being chased by Zorawar's goons and ends up in the secure custody of police inspector Arjun Singh (Amitabh Bachchan), a friend of police inspector Pyare Mohan (Govinda). In reality, Neha, unaware of their identities, believes Arjun to be "Pyare", about whom she was agreeably apprised of by Madhu, and so, Arjun has to impersonate Pyare, giving rise to hilarious situations. Concurrently, Pyare flirts with Seema (Raveena Tandon) - Arjun's sister. Everything could have been passable for the two cops if two lookalikes of the cops, by the nicknames "Bade Miyan" (Amitabh Bachchan) and "Chote Miyan" (Govinda) had not been a cause of concern for them because of the misdeeds they commit leading to Arjun and Pyare being accused as the miscreants everytime. With background scores of the songs (specially "Bade Miyan Toh Bade Miyan") that stir the listeners, the movie advances through scenes of thrill and amusement.
Gharwali Baharwali
Directed by David Dhawan
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about marriage
Actors Anil Kapoor, Raveena Tandon, Rambha, Satish Kaushik, Kader Khan, Tiku Talsania
Rating46% 2.313352.313352.313352.313352.31335
Arun (Anil Kapoor) is married to Kaajal (Raveena Tandon) and they have been trying to conceive a child for some time. After going for some tests, the doctor (Asrani) informs them that they cannot, and this is due to shortcomings from Arun. However, the doctor then secretly confesses to Arun that it is in fact Kaajal who cannot conceive, to spare her from the shame that would have followed in Indian society.
Deewana Mastana, 2h40
Directed by David Dhawan
Genres Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Anil Kapoor, Govinda, Juhi Chawla, Johnny Lever, Anupam Kher, Reema Lagoo
Roles Himself
Rating66% 3.3472153.3472153.3472153.3472153.347215
Raja is a minor league crook who sells railway tickets on the black market at Amirpur Station. Tired of his job he looks for new ways to make a quick buck. One day, along with his friend Ghafoor (Johny Lever) and a police inspector (Avtar Gill), he robs Rs 2.5 million from the railway treasury. Later, Raja and Ghafoor bump off the inspector and run away with the loot to Bombay.
Saajan Chale Sasural, 2h14
Directed by David Dhawan
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Govinda, Karisma Kapoor, Tabu, Satish Kaushik, Kader Khan, David Dhawan
Rating59% 2.951372.951372.951372.951372.95137
Shyamsunder (Govinda) is a naive villager who has a great interest in music. He travels to the city, making friends with Muthuswami (Satish Kaushik), a South Indian tabla player. The president of the TIPS cassette company, Khurana (Kader Khan), is impressed with his musical abilities and promotes him to a high position. As he goes back to repay his debts in the village he receives tragic news of the death of his wife Pooja (Karisma Kapoor) has died in a flood. He then marries Khurana's daughter Divya (Tabu). When Khurana has a heart attack, he finds his "presumed dead" wife Pooja in the hospital. He then has to fool his two wives, even if it includes leading a double life to make sure Pooja and Divya don't discover he has married both of them.
Yaraana
Yaraana (1995)
, 2h5
Directed by David Dhawan
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about domestic violence, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Rishi Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, Raj Babbar, Kader Khan, David Dhawan, Shakti Kapoor
Rating42% 2.126552.126552.126552.126552.12655
Lalita (Madhuri Dixit) catches the eye of JB (Raj Babbar) and he immediately falls in love with her and decides that he must have her. Her uncle Madhi arranges for them to marry but he is only doing this because JB is paying him to. When she refuses, JB kidnaps her and keeps her in his home until the day of the wedding. She is literally watched over by JB every day in case she tries to escape. On the day of the wedding, Lalita faints and uses this to escape. She also moves her mother away and barely escapes JB who assumes that she has been killed after he saw her being hit by a car. In fact, Lalita swapped her wedding dress with someone else, so the person that JB saw being hit by the car was not Lalita.

Director

Dishoom
Dishoom (2016)

Directed by David Dhawan
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors John Abraham, Jacqueline Fernandez, Varun Dhawan, Akshaye Khanna, Saqib Saleem, Rahul Dev
Rating51% 2.5521252.5521252.5521252.5521252.552125
Le meilleur joueur de cricket indien disparaît au Moyen-Orient juste avant un grand match international. Deux flics de chocs se lancent dans une chasse à l’homme de 36 heures.
Main Tera Hero, 2h8
Directed by David Dhawan
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Varun Dhawan, Ileana D'Cruz, Nargis Fakhri, Salman Khan, Arunoday Singh, Anupam Kher
Rating51% 2.55232.55232.55232.55232.5523
Across a college in Ooty where Srinath Prasad aka 'Seenu' (Varun Dhawan) fails his final exam by two marks. Eager to get a degree, he kidnaps the professor's daughter during her wedding and demands his professor to give him two more marks in exchange for his daughter. Seenu accidentally lets go of her however while letting his parents in to his house, and his plan fails.
Chashme Baddoor
Directed by David Dhawan
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Ali Zafar, Rishi Kapoor, Siddharth, Taapsee Pannu, Divyendu Sharma, Juhi Chawla
Rating53% 2.699342.699342.699342.699342.69934
Seema (Taapsee Pannu) is a young girl who lives in Mumbai with her father (Anupam Kher). He, being an active military officer, wants Seema to marry a similar man. He had arranged Seema's marriage to such people five times in a row, with Seema evading all five arrangements. Her father had now arranged her marriage for the sixth time, which Seema evades again and escapes to Goa to live with her uncle, her father's younger brother (Anupam Kher), in a double role. Siddharth Kashyap (Ali Zafar), Jai (Siddharth) and Omi (Divyendu Sharma) are three friends who live in a rented apartment. Miss Josephine (Lilette Dubey) is their landlady. All the three are frequent visitors to a café owned by Joseph Furtado (Rishi Kapoor). The three owe huge amounts of money to Joseph and Josephine. One day, Omi spots Seema taking a walk with her dog Aryabhatta. Attracted to her, he calls his friend Jai. Both of them try to impress her. One after the other, they break into Seema's house. Omi tries to impress Seema with his poetry. Meanwhile, Seema mistakes him for a dog trainer and takes him straight into her bedroom. Omi assumes Seema is interested him and starts browsing her bedroom while Seema prepares her dog [name of Dog is "Aryabhata" given in movie by writer] Unable to handle the dog, Omi runs back home, where he tells everyone a completely different story. Omi tells his friends that they had sex and were deeply in love. Jealous, Jai tries his luck. Jai breaks in, telling them he is a reputed film-maker. Upon realization, Seema calls her grandmother and makes her beat up Jai until he finally makes his run. Back home, Jai tells a similar story. Jai tells the other two that they two were deeply in love and were now dating. Siddharth, meanwhile, isn't interested in Seema.
Rascals
Rascals (2011)

Directed by David Dhawan
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgn, Kangana Ranaut, Arjun Rampal, Lisa Haydon, Chunky Pandey
Rating30% 1.510641.510641.510641.510641.51064
Chetan Chauhan (Sanjay Dutt) and Bhagat Bhosle (Ajay Devgan) are two con artists, who have recently robbed Anthony Gonsalves (Arjun Rampal). Bhagat first meets Anthony and steals his suitcase, covering it up with a fake suitcase of his own, and tries to leave with it, but the real suitcase accidentally comes out of the fake one, causing Anthony to chase Bhagat, who escapes. When Anthony goes to his car, he finds out that someone stole it. Chetan takes the car to a dealer, who changes the color of the car to fool Anthony in case he comes.
Do Knot Disturb
Directed by David Dhawan
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Sushmita Sen, Govinda, Lara Dutta, Ritesh Deshmukh, Sohail Khan, Ranvir Shorey
Rating37% 1.8633151.8633151.8633151.8633151.863315
The film is based on Raj (Govinda) who has a girlfriend, supermodel Dolly (Lara Dutta), and a wife, Kiran (Sushmita Sen). Raj fires Mangu (Rajpal Yadav), a cook, because of attempting to seduce the female staff. To take revenge, Mangu takes a picture of Raj with Dolly and gives it to Kiran. Kiran gets suspicious but then Raj says that Dolly is not his girlfriend. He says that there are three people in the picture, Raj, Dolly and Govardhan (Ritesh Deshmukh). Raj tells Kiran that the guy, who came into the picture as he was walking by, is Dolly's boyfriend and tells Govardhan to live with Dolly for a couple of days so Kiran's suspicions will go away.
Partner
Partner (2007)
, 2h23
Directed by David Dhawan
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Salman Khan, Lara Dutta, Govinda, Katrina Kaif, Ali Haji, Dalip Tahil
Rating57% 2.8991452.8991452.8991452.8991452.899145
Prem (Salman Khan) is a Love Guru who solves the love issues of his clients. He meets Bhaskar Diwakar Chaudhary (Govinda) who comes to Prem for help in his love life. Bhaskar loves his boss Priya Jaisingh (Katrina Kaif) but is unable to express his love to her as she is the daughter of a wealthy businessman. Prem initially refuses to help Bhaskar and goes to Phuket, Thailand. Bhaskar follows him there and convinces him to help.
Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya?, 2h24
Directed by David Dhawan
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Salman Khan, Sushmita Sen, Katrina Kaif, Sohail Khan, Arshad Warsi, Isha Koppikar
Rating55% 2.798282.798282.798282.798282.79828
Samir (Salman Khan) is a very successful doctor: He not only looks after his patient's maladies, he also looks after his female patients' hearts. Most women fall for him and his irresistible charms. The only person who has not fallen for him is his dutiful nurse Naina (Sushmita Sen).
Shaadi No. 1, 2h25
Directed by David Dhawan
Genres Comedy
Actors Fardeen Khan, Zayed Khan, Sharman Joshi, Esha Deol, Soha Ali Khan, Ayesha Takia
Rating35% 1.772171.772171.772171.772171.77217
Raj Mittal (Fardeen Khan), Veer Saxena (Zayed Khan) and Aryan Kapoor (Sharman Joshi) are unhappy with their respective marriages even though they love their spouses. Their wives Bhavana (Ayesha Takia), Diya (Esha Deol) and Sonia (Soha Ali Khan) are busy with their everyday lives, and their husbands feel ignored by them. Bhavana constantly uses religion as an excuse to not be intimate with her husband, Diya aspires to be an actress for Mr.Y (Rajpal Yadav), and Sonia is a lawyer who is obsessed with doing cases with her partner H.S Gulati (Ali Asgar). the three men try to commit suicide as Veer tries to hang himself on a tree but falls, Aryan drinks expired rat poison and Raj wishes he was run over by a train but their suicide plan does not work until they also meet Kothari (Satish Shah) who is also trying to commit suicide because he had three companyies that have broken down. The three men get a job as Kothari hires them to work for him. Soon the three men come across Kothari's daughters: Madhuri (Riya Sen), Rekha (Aarti Chhabria) and Dimple (Sophie Choudry). It is not long before they are tempted by them. Unfortunately for them Lucky Bhai (Sanjay Dutt) is out to make their life hell and expose them to their unassuming wives. The three men sign a contract as the three beauties have been deceived and that their wives are disappointed at them. Once again the three friends commit suicide by standing on top of a ladder but are left hanging when Kothari tries to cut the ladder with a chainsaw. their wives come but are left hanging to as Lucky Bhai saves them but Raj falls into a lump of dust and junk, Aryan falls through wires and electricity and Kothari and Veer falls into a dog van with a broken arm along with Kothari who falls onto a cement packet. Injured, Veer,Raj and Aryan apoligize to Lucky Bhai as he feels awkward about saving people but has trust in them.