{"id":857461,"date":"2026-08-16T16:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T16:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/857461\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T16:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T16:06:11","slug":"david-dhawan-turns-75-salman-khan-varun-dhawan-attend-birthday-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/857461\/","title":{"rendered":"David Dhawan turns 75: Salman Khan, Varun Dhawan attend birthday celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/deepika-8.jpg\" alt=\"David Dhawan turns 75: Salman Khan, Varun Dhawan attend birthday celebrations - see pics\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> Filmmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/david-dhawan\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Dhawan<\/a> turned 75, and he celebrated the occasion with close friends and colleagues from the film industry. Writer-director Rumy Jafry posted several pictures from the celebration, letting fans catch a glimpse of the evening. <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/salman-khan\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Salman Khan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/varun-dhawan\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Varun Dhawan<\/a> were both present to celebrate with him, adding to the fun atmosphere. Filmmaker-producer Sajid Nadiadwala also joined in on the festivities. The photos capture the guests enjoying themselves and offer a peek into how the night went.<\/p>\n<p>Rumy Jafry shares pics from David Dhawan&#8217;s birthday bash<\/p>\n<p>Writer-director Rumy Jafry offered fans a look into veteran filmmaker Dhawan&#8217;s intimate birthday celebration by sharing pictures on Instagram. The photos capture David posing with Salman, Varun and other guests who attended the evening. One picture shows the group gathered around the birthday cake, with the veteran filmmaker taking centre stage. Salman is seen in an all-black outfit topped with a cowboy hat, standing beside David, while Varun is captured planting a kiss on his father&#8217;s cheek.<\/p>\n<p>David Dhawan&#8217;s cake-cutting moment with guests<\/p>\n<p>One more picture from the post captures guests circling David during the cake-cutting moment. The candid click reflects the warmth of the celebration, with friends cheering him on. Also part of Jafry&#8217;s post is a group photo featuring Salman, David and Varun, along with several other names from the film fraternity.Along with the pictures, Rumy Jafry penned a heartfelt birthday wish for David, writing, &#8220;Wishing David sahab a very happy birthday. May you stay healthy and happy always,&#8221; and tagged Salman Khan, Varun Dhawan, Sajid Nadiadwala and others in the post. The celebration gave fans a glimpse of the strong bond the filmmaker shares with his longtime friends and colleagues in the Hindi film industry.<\/p>\n<p>David Dhawan&#8217;s illustrious career in Hindi cinema<\/p>\n<p>Across his celebrated career, David has given Hindi cinema several iconic comedies and entertainers that remain fan favourites to this day. His partnership with Govinda gave birth to some of the biggest blockbusters of that time, such as \u2018Coolie No. 1\u2019, \u2018Hero No. 1\u2019, \u2018Saajan Chale Sasural\u2019, \u2018Bade Miyan Chote Miyan\u2019 and \u2018Haseena Maan Jaayegi\u2019. He also worked with Salman on the popular comedy \u2018Judwaa\u2019 and went on to team up with him again for \u2018Partner\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Filmmaker David Dhawan turned 75, and he celebrated the occasion with close friends and colleagues from the film&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,268452,134,342991,71870,344,293256,4149,28571],"class_list":["post-857461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-david-dhawan","tag-entertainment","tag-haseena-maan-jaayegi","tag-judwaa","tag-movies","tag-rumy-jafry","tag-salman-khan","tag-varun-dhawan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}