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Student of the Year

Student of the Year is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age romantic comedy-drama film directed by Karan Johar, based on a story by Johar and a script by Rensil D'Silva and Niranjan Iyengar, and produced by Hiroo Yash Johar under the banner of Dharma Productions and Gauri Khan under Red Chillies Entertainment. The film stars debutantes Sidharth Malhotra, Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhawan in the lead roles, and also features Rishi Kapoor, Sana Saeed, Ronit Roy, Sahil Anand, Ram Kapoor and Farida Jalal in major supporting roles, with Boman Irani, Kajol, Farah Khan and Vaibhavi Merchant in guest appearances. This was Johar's only feature film directorial venture without Shah Rukh Khan to date, as his next film, Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (2016) had Khan in a cameo appearance. Student of the Year was released on 19 October 2012 in over 1400 locations across India. It was one of the highest-grossing Bollywood films of 2012.A temporally unrelated sequel, Student of the Year 2, helmed by Johar's protege and I Hate Luv Storys (2010) & Gori Tere Pyaar Mein (2013) director Punit Malhotra, was released on 10 May 2019, as a quasi-sequel, starring Tiger Shroff alongside debutantes Tara Sutaria and Ananya Pandey. Bhatt made a special appearance in the music video of a song in the end credits.

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