Early life

David Dhawan was born in Agartala, but was brought up in Kanpur where his father, who was a manager in UCO Bank, got transferred. He studied in Christ Church College till Class XII. He then joined FTII for acting, but seeing other actors like Satish Shah and Suresh Oberoi, realised that he can't act. So he took up editing as an option.

Career

Dhawan started off as an editor before moving into directing. He specialises in directing comedy films,. His biggest success to date is 1993's Aankhen, starring Govinda and Chunkey Pandey. His Partner (2007) also became a big success at the box office.

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 a judge on the Star Plus show Nach Baliye 3 in 2008 and on the show Hans Baliye.

Work with Govinda

Dhawan first teamed with actor Govinda for the film Taaqatwar (1989). He then formed a collaboration with Govinda and went on to direct 17 movies with him as the leading actor, most of which were comedy films. The films made by their collaboration are Taaqatwar (1989), Swarg (1990), Shola Aur Shabnam (1992), Aankhen (1993), Raja Babu (1994), Coolie No. 1 (1995), Saajan Chale Sasural (1996), Banarasi Babu (1997), Deewana Mastana (1997), Hero No. 1 (1997), Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (1998), Haseena Maan Jaayegi (1999), Kunwara (2000), Jodi No.1 (2001), Ek Aur Ek Gyarah (2003), Partner (2007) and Do Knot Disturb (2009). Partner, which co-starred Salman Khan, grossed Rs. 300 Million in India on its opening week, the second highest domestic opening week gross for an Indian film at that time. The same year, Salman Khan invited Dhawan and Govinda on his show 10 Ka Dum to celebrate their film Partner. Dhawan got back to the trio of Govinda, Ritesh Deshmukh and himself with the film, Do Knot Disturb.

Personal life

Dhawan is married to Karuna (née Chopra) and has two sons Rohit Dhawan and Varun Dhawan. Dhawan's brother is actor Anil Dhawan and nephew is actor Siddharth Dhawan.

Filmography

As director

Year	Film	Cast
1989	Aandhiyan	Shatrughan Sinha, Mumtaz, Prasenjit Chatterjee
	Taaqatwar	Sanjay Dutt, Govinda, Neelam, Anita Raj
	Gola Barood	Shatrughan Sinha, Chunky Pandey, Kimi Katkar
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, Kader Khan, Juhi Chawla
1993	Aankhen	Govinda, Chunky Pandey
1994	Raja Babu	Govinda, Karisma Kapoor, Kader Khan
	Eena Meena Deeka	Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Juhi Chawla
	Andaz	Anil Kapoor, Karisma Kapoor, Juhi Chawla, Kader Khan
1995	Yaraana	Rishi Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, Raj Babbar
	Coolie No. 1	Govinda, Karishma Kapoor, Kader Khan
1996	Loafer	Anil Kapoor, Juhi Chawla
	Saajan Chale Sasural	Govinda, Karisma Kapoor, Tabu
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
	Hero No. 1	Govinda, Karishma Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Kader Khan
1998	Gharwali Bharwali	Anil Kapoor, Raveena Tandon, Rambha
	Bade Miyan Chote Miyan	Amitabh Bachchan, Govinda, Kader Khan
1999	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, Kader Khan
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, Arjun Rampal, and Lisa Haydon
2013	Chashme Buddoor	Divyendu Sharma, Tapsee Pannu, Siddharth Narayan, Rishi Kapoor, Ali Zafar
2014	Main Tera Hero	Varun Dhawan, Ileana D'Cruz, Nargis Fakhri, Arunoday Singh

Awards and Nominations

Year±	Film	Award Ceremony	Category	Result
1994	Aankhen	Filmfare Awards	Filmfare Award for Best Director	Nominated
2000	Biwi No.1	Filmfare Awards	Filmfare Award for Best Director	Nominated
			Filmfare Award for Best Film	Nominated
2005	Mujhse Shaadi Karogi	International Indian Film Academy Awards	IIFA Award for Best Director	Nominated
2014	Main Tera Hero	Stardust Awards	Stardust Award for Dream Director	Nominated
		BIG Star Entertainment Awards	BIG Star Most Entertaining Comedy Film	Won

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