List of Dharma Productions films
Dharma Productions is an Indian production company established by Yash Johar in 1976.[1] As of 2016, the company has produced 36 Bollywood films, including five that are yet to be released. A large number of these films were co-produced with companies such as UTV Motion Pictures and Red Chillies Entertainment.
Dharma Productions' first release came in 1980 with the Raj Khosla-directed Dostana, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Shatrughan Sinha, which was a commercial success.[2] However, their subsequent releases, Duniya (1984) and Muqaddar Ka Faisla (1987) performed poorly at the box office.[3] Their first release of the 1990s, the Bachchan-starring thriller Agneepath (1990) garnered critical acclaim but was a commercial failure.[4] The company's next releases were the thriller Gumrah (1993) and the comedy Duplicate (1998), both directed by Mahesh Bhatt.[3] In 1998, Yash Johar's son, Karan Johar, made his directorial debut with the romantic drama Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, starring Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, and Rani Mukerji. The film was the highest-grossing Bollywood film of 1998, and established Dharma Productions as a leading production company in India.[5][6] Their subsequent releases, the ensemble melodrama Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001), the comedy-drama Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003) and the romantic drama Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006), all starring Khan, were popular among the Indian diaspora worldwide and emerged as top-grossing Hindi films in overseas sales.[7][8]
From 2008 onwards, in addition to directorial ventures from Karan Johar, the company introduced several new directors, including Ayan Mukerji, Punit Malhotra, Karan Malhotra, and Shakun Batra.[9] The romantic comedy Dostana (2008) was the first mainstream Hindi film to take a homosexual storyline.[10] In 2012, Karan Johar directed the teenage drama Student of the Year, which marked the debut of actors Sidharth Malhotra, Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt.[11] The following year, the company co-produced the critically acclaimed drama The Lunchbox, which was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language.[12] Dharma Productions' greatest successes in the 2010s came with the drama My Name Is Khan (2010),[13] the 2012 remake of Agneepath,[13] the comedy-drama Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (2013),[14] the romantic drama 2 States (2014),[15] and the drama Kapoor & Sons (2016).[16] The most frequent collaborations of the company have been with the actors Shah Rukh Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Sidharth Malhotra, Amitabh Bachchan, and Kajol.
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Films
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Title | Year | Director | Producer(s) | Cast | Synopsis | Ref. |
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Dostana | 1980 | Raj Khosla | Yash Johar | Amitabh Bachchan, Shatrughan Sinha, Zeenat Aman | A police officer and a lawyer are best friends. Trouble arises when they both fall in love with the same girl. | [17] |
Duniya | 1984 | Ramesh Talwar | Yash Johar | Dilip Kumar, Rishi Kapoor, Amrita Singh, Saira Banu | An honest man is wrongly imprisoned by criminals. He later avenges his humiliation with the help of a man who was hired by the criminals to spy on him. | [18] |
Muqaddar Ka Faisla | 1987 | Prakash Mehra | Yash Johar | Raaj Kumar, Raakhee, Raj Babbar, Meenakshi Seshadri, Tina Munim | A Hindu priest is wrongly imprisoned for rape. When he returns from prison, he tries to locate his family and exact revenge for his humiliation. | [19] |
Agneepath | 1990 | Mukul S. Anand | Yash Johar | Amitabh Bachchan, Mithun Chakraborty, Danny Denzongpa, Madhavi | A common man seeks revenge from an unscrupulous man for wrongly framing and murdering his father. | [20] |
Gumrah | 1993 | Mahesh Bhatt | Yash Johar | Sridevi, Sanjay Dutt, Rahul Roy | An aspiring singer is wrongly accused of drug trafficking, and is sent to prison. She escapes, and seeks revenge from the people who framed her. | [21] |
Duplicate | 1998 | Mahesh Bhatt | Yash Johar | Shah Rukh Khan, Juhi Chawla, Sonali Bendre | An aspiring chef is the doppelganger of a gangster. Comic situations arise when they mistakenly swap places with each other. | [22] [23] |
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai | 1998 | Karan Johar | Yash Johar | Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Rani Mukerji, Salman Khan | An eight-year-old girl attempts to fulfill her late mother's wish to unite her father with a woman who used to secretly love him in college. | [24] [25] |
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... | 2001 | Karan Johar | Yash Johar | Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Hrithik Roshan, Kareena Kapoor | A rich industrialist severs ties with his adopted son after he marries a poor girl. Years later, his younger son plots to unite them. | [26] [27] |
Kal Ho Naa Ho | 2003 | Nikhil Advani | Yash Johar, Karan Johar |
Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Saif Ali Khan, Jaya Bachchan | A man with a fatal heart disease tries to play matchmaker to a troubled young woman and her best friend, despite being in love with her. | [28] [29] |
Kaal[lower-alpha 1] | 2005 | Soham Shah | Karan Johar, Shah Rukh Khan |
Ajay Devgn, John Abraham, Vivek Oberoi, Esha Deol, Lara Dutta | A group of tourists in a national park are traumatised by an unexplained force, and they seek support from a mysterious local man. | [30] [32] |
Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna | 2006 | Karan Johar | Hiroo Johar | Shah Rukh Khan, Rani Mukerji, Abhishek Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Amitabh Bachchan, Kirron Kher | An extra-marital affair between a bitter football coach and an unhappy schoolteacher destroy their respective marriages. | [33] [34] |
Dostana | 2008 | Tarun Mansukhani | Karan Johar, Hiroo Johar |
Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham, Priyanka Chopra, Bobby Deol | Two men in Miami pretend to be gay to share an apartment with a beautiful young woman, but they both eventually fall in love with her. | [35] [36] |
Wake Up Sid[lower-alpha 2] | 2009 | Ayan Mukerji | Karan Johar, Hiroo Johar |
Ranbir Kapoor, Konkona Sen Sharma | The life of a lazy young man changes for the better when he begins living with an aspiring writer. | [37] [43] |
Kurbaan[lower-alpha 2] | 2009 | Rensil D'Silva | Karan Johar, Hiroo Johar |
Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Vivek Oberoi | A terrorist dupes a woman into marrying him, so he can enter the United States. He keeps her under house-arrest, but she attempts to foil his plans. | [38] [44] |
My Name Is Khan[lower-alpha 3] | 2010 | Karan Johar | Hiroo Johar, Gauri Khan |
Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol | In post-9/11 America, a man suffering from Asperger syndrome travels to meet the President of the country on the insistence of his wife. | [45] [46] |
I Hate Luv Storys[lower-alpha 2] | 2010 | Punit Malhotra | Karan Johar, Hiroo Johar, Ronnie Screwvala |
Imran Khan, Sonam Kapoor | An engaged woman develops a one-sided attraction towards a commitment-phobic co-worker. | [39] [47] |
We Are Family[lower-alpha 4] | 2010 | Siddharth Malhotra | Karan Johar, Hiroo Johar |
Kajol, Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal | A man's newly married wife must look after his kids from his first marriage, after his ex-wife is diagnosed with cancer. | [48] [49] |
Agneepath | 2012 | Karan Malhotra | Karan Johar, Hiroo Johar |
Hrithik Roshan, Rishi Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Priyanka Chopra | A common man seeks revenge from an unscrupulous man for wrongly framing and murdering his father. | [50] [51] |
Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu[lower-alpha 2] | 2012 | Shakun Batra | Karan Johar, Hiroo Johar, Ronnie Screwvala |
Imran Khan, Kareena Kapoor | An under-confident man accidentally marries a free-spirited woman. After deciding to annul the marriage, she helps him overcome his insecurities. | [40] [52] |
Student of the Year[lower-alpha 1] | 2012 | Karan Johar | Hiroo Johar, Gauri Khan |
Sidharth Malhotra, Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt, Rishi Kapoor | The friendship of three school students is tested when they have to compete with each other in an annual school competition. | [31] [53] |
Gippi[lower-alpha 2] | 2013 | Sonam Nair | Karan Johar, Hiroo Johar |
Riya Vij, Divya Dutta, Taaha Shah | An overweight teenage girl from a broken home must overcome her inhibitions and stand against a popular girl for the annual school elections. | [41] [54] |
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani[lower-alpha 2] | 2013 | Ayan Mukerji | Karan Johar, Hiroo Johar |
Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Aditya Roy Kapur, Kalki Koechlin | A man and a woman of contrasting personalities fall in love during the course of a common friend's wedding. | [42] [55] |
The Lunchbox[lower-alpha 5] | 2013 | Ritesh Batra | Guneet Monga, Anurag Kashyap, Arun Rangachari |
Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Nawazuddin Siddiqui | An unhappy housewife and a lonely widower correspond through letters in hope of a better future with each other. | [56] [57] |
Gori Tere Pyaar Mein | 2013 | Punit Malhotra | Karan Johar, Hiroo Johar |
Imran Khan, Kareena Kapoor | To woo his lady love, a social worker, a man must travel to a remote village in India where she is working on a project. | [58] [59] |
Hasee Toh Phasee[lower-alpha 6] | 2014 | Vinil Mathew | Karan Johar, Vikas Bahl, Vikramaditya Motwane, Anurag Kashyap |
Sidharth Malhotra, Parineeti Chopra, Adah Sharma | A struggling businessman is sympathetic to his fiancé's sister, a drug abusing scientist, and helps her mend fences with her family. | [60] [62] |
2 States[lower-alpha 7] | 2014 | Abhishek Varman | Karan Johar, Sajid Nadiadwala |
Arjun Kapoor, Alia Bhatt | Two recently graduated students, belonging to different parts of India, face trouble in convincing their parents to approve of their relationship. | [63] [64] |
Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania | 2014 | Shashank Khaitan | Karan Johar, Hiroo Johar |
Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt, Siddharth Shukla | A girl's marriage is arranged by her father to a successful NRI doctor, but she engages in an affair with another man. | [65] [66] |
Ungli | 2014 | Rensil D'Silva | Karan Johar, Hiroo Johar |
Emraan Hashmi, Sanjay Dutt, Neil Bhoopalam, Randeep Hooda, Kangana Ranaut | Four friends, impacted by the corruption among politicians, moonlight as vigilantes. A police officer tries to catch them. | [67] [68] |
Brothers[lower-alpha 8] | 2015 | Karan Malhotra | Karan Johar Hiroo Johar |
Akshay Kumar, Sidharth Malhotra, Jackie Shroff, Jacqueline Fernandez | The younger son of an alcoholic former boxer competes in a MMA tournament against his older brother. | [69] |
Shaandaar[lower-alpha 6] | 2015 | Vikas Bahl | Karan Johar, Vikas Bahl, Vikramaditya Motwane, Anurag Kashyap |
Shahid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Pankaj Kapur | Two insomniacs fall in love during a destination wedding. | [70] |
Kapoor & Sons[lower-alpha 9] | 2016 | Shakun Batra | Karan Johar, Hiroo Johar, Apoorva Mehta |
Sidharth Malhotra, Fawad Khan, Alia Bhatt, Rishi Kapoor | Two brothers return home to their dysfunctional family when their grandfather suffers from a cardiac arrest. | [72] |
Baar Baar Dekho![]() |
2016 | Nitya Mehra | Karan Johar, Farhan Akhtar, Ritesh Sidhwani |
Sidharth Malhotra, Katrina Kaif | TBA | [73] [74] |
Ae Dil Hai Mushkil![]() |
2016 | Karan Johar | Karan Johar, Hiroo Johar |
Ranbir Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Anushka Sharma | TBA | [75] |
Ok Jaanu![]() |
2017 | Shaad Ali | Karan Johar | Aditya Roy Kapur, Shraddha Kapoor | TBA | [76] |
Badrinath Ki Dulhania![]() |
2017 | Shashank Khaitan | Karan Johar, Hiroo Johar |
Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt | TBA | [77] |
Untitled project![]() |
TBA | Gauri Shinde | Karan Johar | Alia Bhatt, Shah Rukh Khan | TBA | [78] |
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The film was co-produced with Red Chillies Entertainment.[30][31]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 The film was co-produced with UTV Motion Pictures.[37][38][39][40][41][42]
- ↑ The film was co-produced with Fox Searchlight Pictures, Fox Star Studios, and Red Chillies Entertainment.[45]
- ↑ The film was co-produced with Sony Pictures and UTV Motion Pictures.[48]
- ↑ The film was co-produced with UTV Motion Pictures, DAR Motion Pictures and Sikhya Entertainment.[56]
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 The film was co-produced with Phantom Films.[60][61]
- ↑ The film was co-produced with UTV Motion Pictures and Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment.[63]
- ↑ The film was co-produced with Lionsgate and Endemol India.[69]
- ↑ The film was co-produced with Fox Star Studios.[71]
- ↑ The film was co-produced with Excel Entertainment and Eros International.[73]
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