Yash Chopra

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Yash Chopra

Yash Chopra ( Hindi यश चोपड़ा Yaś Copṛā ; born September 27, 1932 in Jullunder , Punjab , British India ; † October 21, 2012 in Mumbai , Maharashtra ) was an Indian film director and producer. He was one of the most influential figures in Bollywood . Yash Chopra owned its own production company called Yash Raj Films .

biography

Yash Chopra was married to Pamela Chopra . The two have two sons: Aditya Chopra , also a successful director, and Uday Chopra , an actor .

Yash Chopra started out as an assistant director with his older brother, the film director Baldev Raj Chopra , among others . His first film under his own name was the successful Dhool Ka Phool in 1959 , a socially engaged story about illegitimate motherhood. Chopra had his commercial breakthrough with Waqt (1965, with Sunil Dutt , Shashi Kapoor , Sharmila Tagore and Balraj Sahni ), for which he received his first Filmfare Award / Best Director , and three more followed for Ittefaq (1969, with Rajesh Khanna ), Daag (1973, with Sharmila Tagore and Rajesh Khanna) and Deewaar (1975, with Shashi Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan ). The latter is considered to be one of the most important Hindi films of all time. Then in the 1980s Chopra produced a few flops.

Since Chandni (1989) with Vinod Khanna , Rishi Kapoor and Sridevi , Yash Chopra has been able to build on earlier successes. He had managed to adapt to the changing taste of the public and was therefore still a leading director in Bollywood in the late 1990s . Chopra continued to rely on the pull of the stars and cast his 1997 film Dil To Pagal Hai - My Heart Goes Crazy with Shah Rukh Khan , Madhuri Dixit , Karisma Kapoor and Akshay Kumar .

In 2002 he was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award . His last film was the blockbuster Veer-Zaara , successful not least thanks to the work of Shah Rukh Khan , Preity Zinta , Rani Mukerji and Amitabh Bachchan . In 2005 Chopra received the Padma Bhushan .

As a producer with his company Yash Raj Films , founded in 1973, Yash Chopra has also been involved in a large number of blockbusters, most recently Bunty Aur Babli and Mohabbatein , in which his son Uday Chopra acted as an actor and his son Aditya Chopra directed. From February 9 to February 19, 2006 he was a member of the jury at the 2006 International Film Festival in Berlin .

With 21 directorial work, 3 screenplays and 31 producer activities listed in the IMDB during 40 years in the Indian film business, Chopra was one of the "living legends" of Indian cinema, one of the many awards and great influence.

His last work as a director was As long as I Live - Jab Tak Hai Jaan (Jab Tak Hai Jaan), which hit theaters on November 13. The main characters were Shah Rukh Khan , Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma . Yash Copra wanted to end his career as a director after this film and only work as a producer. However, he died of dengue fever on October 21, 2012, a month before his film was released .

Films as a director

Web links

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Individual evidence


personal data
SURNAME Chopra, Yash
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian film director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Jullunder , Punjab
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 2012
Place of death Mumbai , Maharashtra