Dharma Productions Pvt. Ltd. is an Indian motion picture production and distribution company, based in Mumbai. The company was founded by Yash Johar in 1976. It is now headed by his son Karan Johar after the death of the former in 2004.

Sahil Khan Is Creative Head and balaji telefilms Dharma Productions and NDTV recently decided to jointly launch an entertainment television channel called NDTV Imagine.

On 12 May 2009 Philadelphia Daily News released an article stating Dharma Productions was faced with a lawsuit over unpaid wages for local Philadelphia actors and vendors to the sum of US $150,000. The actors and vendors were a part of the cast of the Rensil D'Silva directed film Kurbaan, which starred Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor. The lawsuit also included a restraining order preventing footage shot in the United States for the film, to be restricted from leaving the country. Dharma claims that it is not responsible for the claims they are being sued for, since the claims are between the individual actors and vendors and Melbourne based Swish Group Limited, a company Dharma hired to supervise the production of the film. In good faith, even though Dharma is not legally responsible for the loss of wages for the actors and vendors, Karan Johar and his team have begun to reimburse claimants of their losses, and plans to take further action against Swish Group Limited as to what happened to the original funds that were paid to Swish to compensate each worker their wages.

Karan Johar (born 25 May 1972) is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter, Costume designer and Television host based in Bollywood. He is the son of Hiroo Johar and Yash Johar. He is also the head of the production company Dharma Productions. He is most known for directing and producing some of Bollywood's highest grossing films in India and abroad. The four films he has directed, all starring Shahrukh Khan, have been India's highest grossing productions in the overseas market. The success of those films resulted in crediting Johar for changing the way Indian cinema has been perceived in the West.

Johar entered the film industry as an actor in Aditya Chopra's Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. He later made his directorial debut with the highly successful romantic comedy, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai which won him a Filmfare Award For Best Director and Filmfare Best Screenplay Award. His following directorial efforts were the family drama, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001) and the romantic drama, Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006), a movie which dealt with the theme of adultery. Both films were major financial successes in India and abroad. Johar thus established himself as one of the most successful filmmakers in Bollywood. His fourth film, My Name Is Khan (2010) was met with positive reviews and grossed over 2 billion worldwide. It earned him his second Best Director award at the Filmfare ceremony.

Alia Bhatt (born 15 March 1993)^{[citation needed]} is an Indian actress in Bollywood.

Alia is the daughter of director, producer, and screenwriter Mahesh Bhatt and Soni Razdan, a film actress and director. She has one sister Shaheen Bhatt, a stepsister Pooja Bhatt, and a stepbrother Rahul Bhatt. Actor Emraan Hashmi and director Mohit Suri are her cousins and producer Mukesh Bhatt is her uncle. Alia has completed high-school from Jamnabai Narsee School in Mumbai.^{[citation needed]}

Bhatt has acted as a child artist in the film Sangharsh (1999), starring Akshay Kumar and Preity Zinta. She played the younger Zinta in the film.

She started her career in Bollywood as a lead role in the upcoming film Student of the Year where she stars opposite newcomers Siddharth Malhotra and Varun Dhawan (David Dhawan's son). The film is directed and produced by Karan Johar and co-produced by Shahrukh Khan. The film is expected to release on October 19th, 2012.

Varun Dhawan is an Indian film actor who will be making his debut in the 2012 film by Karan Johar, Student of the Year. He is the son of director David Dhawan and is the brother of director Rohit Dhawan.

Dhawan was born on April 24, 1988 to Indian film director, David Dhawan and Karuna Dhawan. He has an older brother, Rohit Dhawan. He has mentioned that when he was younger, he wanted to become a wrestler. He has a degree in business management.

Before starting off as an actor, Dhawan was an assistant director to his father, David Dhawan. He also assisted Karan Johar in his 2010 film, My Name is Khan.

Dhawan will be making his acting debut in the 2012 film, Student of the Year. The film is expected to be released on October 19, 2012 and is currently in post production stages.

List of Indian film actors

Shreya Ghoshal (born March 12, 1984) is an Indian singer. Best known as a playback singer in Hindi films, she also sings in other Indian languages including Bengali, Assamese, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya,Gujarati, Tamil and Telugu.

Ghoshal's career began when she won the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa contest as an adult. Her Bollywood playback singing career began with Devdas, for which she received National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer along with Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer and Filmfare RD Burman Award for New Music Talent. Since then, she has worked in more than 180 films and received four National Film Awards, four Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer and four Filmfare Awards South.

Ghoshal was born on March 12, 1984 to a Bengali Hindu family in Durgapur, West Bengal. She grew up in Rawatbhata, a small town near Kota, Rajasthan. Her father, Mr. Biswajeet Ghoshal, works as a nuclear power plant engineer for the Nuclear Power Corporation of India, whereas her mother is a literature post-graduate.