Student of the Year

Hindi Film

Student of the Year is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age romantic comedy-drama movie 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.[6] The movie stars Sidharth Malhotra, Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhawan in the lead roles, and Rishi Kapoor, Sana Saeed, Ronit Roy, Sahil Anand, Ram Kapoor and Farida Jalal are all playing major supporting roles, with Boman Irani, Kajol, Farah Khan and Vaibhavi Merchant in guest appearances. This movie marks the debuts of Sidharth Malhotra, Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhawan. Notably, this is also the first of several collaborations of Bhatt and Dhawan. The film's plot is this - The friendship of Abhi (Sidharth Malhotra) and Rohan (Varun Dhawan) is shaken when Abhi falls for their mutual friend, Shanaya (Alia Bhatt).

Student of the Year
Directed byKaran Johar
Written byRensil D'Silva
Niranjan Iyengar
Story byKaran Johar
Produced byHiroo Yash Johar
Gauri Khan
StarringSidharth Malhotra
Alia Bhatt
Varun Dhawan
Narrated bySahil Anand
Manasi Rachh
Sania Saeed
Kayoze Irani
Manjot Singh[1]
CinematographyAyananka Bose
Edited byDeepa Bhatia
Music byVishal-Shekhar
Production
companies
Distributed byIndia:
AA Films
Overseas:
Eros Entertainment[2]
Release date
  • 19 October 2012 (2012-10-19)
Running time
146 minutes[2]
Country India
LanguageHindi
Budget59 crore[3][better source needed] Note: Figure contains print and advertising costs
Box office109.10 crore[4][5]

Student of the Year was released on 19 October 2012 in over 1400 locations across India. The movie received positive reviews and was successful at the box office as well as one of the highest-grossing Bollywood movies of 2012.[7]

An unrelated sequel, Student of the Year 2, was released on 10 May 2019, starring Tiger Shroff alongside debutantes Tara Sutaria and Ananya Panday. Bhatt made a special appearance in the music video of a song in the end credits.[8] The sequel didn't do as well as this movie but it was still successful at the box office.

References

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  1. Taran Adarsh. "Student Of The Year (2012) – Review by Taran Adarsh". Bollywood Hungama. Archived from the original on 2012-12-08.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Student Of The Year (12A) – British Board of Film Classification". 16 March 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
  3. "Student Of The Year - Movie - Box Office India". www.boxofficeindia.com. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
  4. "Student of the Year - Movie - Box Office India".
  5. "Student Of The Year - Collection - Bollywood Hungama". Bollywood Hungama. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
  6. "Student of the Year". Bollywood Hungama. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
  7. Boxofficeindia.com Archived 2 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Boxofficeindia.com.
  8. "Alia Bhatt's Hook Up song from Student of the Year 2 gets mixed reviews on Twitter". May 2019. Retrieved 6 March 2021.