Yash Chopra

Also known as Yash Raj Chopra

Indian film director, script writer and film producer (1932–2012)

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Yash Chopra (1932–2012) was an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer. Born in Lahore, he began his professional career in 1959 and worked until his death in Mumbai in 2012. He was a Hindu who spoke Hindi. His notable works include *Private Eye*, *Dhoom 2*, and *Dilwale dulhania le jayenge*.

Chopra was married to Pamela Chopra and was the father of Aditya Chopra and Uday Chopra. He had a sibling named Baldev Raj Chopra. During his life, he received several honors, including the Padma Bhushan, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, a Filmfare Award for Best Director, and the Officer of the Legion of Honour. He died of natural causes due to dengue fever.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 3

Top works

Private Eye
Dhoom 2
Dilwale dulhania le jayenge

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Film & TV

Directing · Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar, Punjab, India

Yash Raj Chopra was a highly accomplished Indian filmmaker. The founder of film studio, Yash Raj Films - he was responsible for some of the most popular Bollywood films to come out of India in the past 40 years. Chopra won several prestigious awards including the Filmfare Award for Best Director, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award and Padma Bhushan.

Known for

Angry Young Men — Archival Footage2024
The Romantics — Self (Archival Footage)2023
Celluloid Man — Self2012
Cinema Asia: India — Self2007
Om Shanti Om — Self2007
Veer-Zaara — Self - Narrator (voice)2004
Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai — Himself2002
Akarshan — Self1988

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: India
Active from: 1932
Active to: 2012

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 537
Total plays: 5,341

Yash Raj Chopra (Hindi: यश चोपड़ा, born 27 September 1932) is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer of Bollywood movies in India. Waqt, Deewar, Lamhe, Darr, Dil To Pagal Hai, and Veer-Zaara are some of the highly successful movies which Yash Chopra made. He is the founder of Yash Raj Films, India's largest film production company. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Yash+Chopra">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Dapagliflozin in Patients with Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction
· 2019 · cited 6,225x
The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package*
· 2022 · cited 4,966x
Cardiovascular and Renal Outcomes with Empagliflozin in Heart Failure
· 2020 · cited 4,530x
Empagliflozin in Heart Failure with a Preserved Ejection Fraction
· 2021 · cited 4,347x
Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
· 2019 · cited 4,140x

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Key facts

Born: Yash Raj Chopra , ( 1932-09-27 ) 27 September 1932, Lahore , Punjab , British India (present-day Lahore , Pakistan )
Died: 21 October 2012 (2012-10-21) (aged 80), Mumbai , Maharashtra , India
Occupations: Film director Film producer
Years active: 1959–2012
Organization: Yash Raj Films
Works: Full list
Spouse: Pamela Singh ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1970 )
Children: Aditya Chopra Uday Chopra
Relatives: Chopra family

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Encyclopedic overview

Yash Raj Chopra (27 September 1932 – 21 October 2012) was an Indian film director and film producer who worked in Hindi cinema. The founding chairman of the film production and distribution company Yash Raj Films, Chopra was the recipient of several awards, including 6 National Film Awards and 8 Filmfare Awards. He is considered among the best Hindi filmmakers, particularly known and admired for his romantic films with strong female leads. For his contributions to film, the Government of India honoured him with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2001, and the Padma Bhushan in 2005. In 2006, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts presented him with a lifetime membership, making him the first Indian to receive the honour.

Chopra began his career as an assistant director to I. S. Johar and his elder brother, B. R. Chopra. He made his directorial debut with Dhool Ka Phool in 1959, a melodrama about illegitimacy, and followed it with the social drama Dharmputra (1961). Chopra rose to prominence after directing the critically and commercially successful family drama Waqt (1965), which pioneered the concept of ensemble casts in Bollywood. In 1970, he founded his own production company, Yash Raj Films, whose first production was Daag: A Poem of Love (1973), a successful melodrama about polygamy. His success continued in the seventies, with some of Indian cinema's most successful and iconic films, including the action-thriller Deewaar (1975), which established Amitabh Bachchan as a leading actor in Bollywood; the ensemble musical romantic drama Kabhi Kabhie (1976) and the ensemble family drama Trishul (1978).

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