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Dhawan’s films are often outrageous but their dizzying tempo is winning audiences.
It is unlikely that future film festivals will include retrospectives of his work. Or that students of Pune’s Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), where he was a gold medallist, will ever analyse his characters. Or that critics, who call his movies inane, will change their mind. But he’s not complaining. David Dhawan, 40, film editor-turned-director, has just delivered his fourth consecutive hit in two years.
