page_title: Student of the Year
section_title: Development
hierarchical_section_title: Student of the Year / Production / Development
caption_attribution_description: English: Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt and Sidharth Malhotra during Student of the Year promotions.
context_page_description: 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 Alia Bhatt, Sidharth Malhotra 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 first and only feature film directorial venture without Shah Rukh Khan, as his next film, Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, 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 film of year 2012.
  A temporally unrelated sequel, Student of the Year 2, helmed by Johar's protege and I Hate Luv Storys & Gori Tere Pyaar Mein director Punit Malhotra, was released on 10 May 2019, as a quasi-sequel, starring Tiger Shroff alongside debutantes Tara Sutaria and Ananya Pandey.
context_section_description: On 5 January 2011, Karan Johar and Shah Rukh Khan both uploaded the first look poster of the new film on the micro-blogging website Twitter. Student of the Year marks the debuts of Alia Bhatt, the daughter of filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, Varun Dhawan, the son of director David Dhawan, Sidharth Malhotra, Boman Irani's son Kayoze Irani and Kuch Kuch Hota Hai fame Sana Saeed (role of "Anjali" as the daughter of Shah Rukh Khan and Rani Mukerji).
  Malhotra and Dhawan had previously worked as assistant directors under Johar during the making of the 2010 film My Name Is Khan. Rishi Kapoor played a gay dean.
  The first official trailer was released on 2 August 2012. Karan Johar later tweeted saying that the film will be released on 19 October 2012.
caption: Sidharth Malhotra, Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt, the first three debutantes ever to star in a Karan Johar directorial
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