# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dharmesh-darshan
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:22:50.245Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dharmesh-darshan"
name: "Dharmesh Darshan"
slug: "dharmesh-darshan"
description: "Dharmesh Darshan is an Indian filmmaker, film director and writer who works in Bollywood. He was born into Bhatt family. He began his illustrious career as one of the youngest filmmakers of Indian Cinema, in the league of Sooraj Barjatya, Aditya Chopra, Karan Johar, and Sanjay Leela Bhansali. He began his directorial career with the action romance Lootere (1993), starring Sunny Deol and Juhi Chawla, which was a big hit that gave him a huge breakthrough early in his career. He later created box-office history with the romantic drama Raja Hindustani (1996) starring Aamir Khan and Karisma Kapoor. He then directed the musical romantic drama Dhadkan (2000) starring Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty and Shilpa Shetty, another commercial success."
tagline: "Indian film director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/t9qQWoH9aN8Q4vN6WHSnu4499Vm.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1972-05-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.78
  momentum:             3.469591226321037
  historical:           10.10984666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0201710/"
    handle:    "nm0201710"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Dharmesh Darshan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump