Inside photos from Karan Johar's big Bollywood birthday bash

It was the Bollywood party to end all parties, or as Farah Khan Kunder called it, ‘the Met Gala of Lokhandwala’ as Karan Johar celebrated his 50th birthday at Yash Raj Studios. The who’s who of Bollywood was in attendance, barring a few famous faces what with Deepika Padukone jetting with the glitterati at Cannes and Alia Bhatt shooting for her Hollywood debut in the UK.

But their lack of appearance was more than made up by Johar’s best buddies in Bollywood, with the Khans – Salman, Aamir (pictured) and Saif – along with Gauri Khan, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Ranbir Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan, Anushka Sharma, Ranveer Singh, Kajol (pictured) and many, many more making their presence felt.

Close friend and designer to the stars, Manish Malhotra, was at hand to ensure everything went off without a hitch, with Johar’s bestie also helping to organise a private dinner the filmmaker hosted the night before for his close industry friends.

Malhotra's Instagram story was filled with images from the party, with the fashion guru striking a pose with Shweta Bachchan, Gauri Khan (who glittered in gold) and Shanaya Kapoor, who is waiting in the wings for her big Bollywood debut in a Johar production.

Malhotra also eagerly shared images of Bollywood stars who picked his designs at attend the party, with Tara Sutaira, Janhvi Kapoor and Tabu, all looking stunning in his designs.

Aparshakti Khurana, who will be heading down to Abu Dhabi next week to host the International Indian Film Academy Awards, filling in for Johar at the IIFA Rocks event at the Etihad Arena on June 3, kept his selfie game on point at the party getting snaps with Ranbir Kapoor, his sister-in-law Tahira Kashyap, Neha Dhupia and Angad Bedi and singer Badshah.

The other trigger-happy person of the night was veteran Bollywood actress Raveena Tandon, who is currently on a career high with the success of ‘KGF 2’.

In what can only be deemed a reunion of Bollywood stars from the late 90s and early 00s, Tandon managed to get pictures with Saif Ali Khan, Neelam Kothari Soni, Rani Mukerji and Juhi Chawla.

Saif Ali Khan was at the Johar birthday bash with his wife and the filmmaker’s bestie, Kareena Kapoor Khan, who stunned in a silver sequin dress. She was joined by her girl gang Malaika Arora and sibling Amrita Arora.

While Alia Bhatt is off shooting for 'Heart of Stone' with Gal Gadot and Jamie Dornan in the UK, her husband and Bollywood star Ranbir Kapoor escorted his mother, actress Neetu Kapoor to the party, who didn't miss out on the opportunity to promote her upcoming Johar-produced film, 'JugJugg Jeeyo'.

Anushka Sharma, who may have been “two hours past” her bedtime but she was definitely “looking fine” at the party. Director-screenwriter Collin D'Cunha shared images of himself with Sharma, along with a great picture which reunited Ranbir Kapoor and Sharma after Johar’s ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’.

While there was a lot to gossip on from the night, what caught everyone’s attention was Hrithik Roshan coming to the party holding hands with his rumoured girlfriend Saba Azad. The couple made their relationship red carpet official while happily posing for the paparazzi stationed outside. Interestingly, Roshan’s former wife Sussanne Khan also appeared at the party with her rumoured boyfriend Arslan Goni.