YASH
CHOPRA MINI
BIOGRAPHY
DATE OF BIRTH
1932,
LAHORE, PUNJAB, BRITISH INDIA [NOW PAKISTAN]
DATE OF
DEATH
21
OCTOBER 2012, MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA (DENGUE FEVER)
MINI
BIOGRAPHY
LABELED
THE ETERNAL ROMANTIC AND WITH ONE OF THE BEST MUSICAL SENSES IN THE BUSINESS,
YASH CHOPRA IS ARGUABLY INDIA'S MOST SUCCESSFUL DIRECTOR OF ROMANTIC FILMS.
ALTHOUGH HE MADE ACTION-ORIENTED FILMS LIKE THE EVER-POPULAR DEEWAAR (1975), IT
IS IN TACKLING LOVE AND ITS VARIOUS ASPECTS THAT HE HAS BEEN AT HIS BEST. ONE
OF THE FEW REMAINING COMMERCIAL INDIAN DIRECTORS WHO STARTED THEIR CAREERS IN
THE 1950S, HE HAS SUCCESSFULLY MOVED WITH THE TIMES FROM THE SOCIALLY
SIGNIFICANT DHOOL KA PHOOL (1959) TO THE YOUNG AND COOL DIL TO PAGAL HAI
(1997).
YASH
CHOPRA WAS BORN IN LAHORE IN 1932, TO AN ACCOUNTANT IN THE PWD DIVISION OF THE
BRITISH PUNJAB ADMINISTRATION, THE YOUNGEST OF EIGHT CHILDREN. HE BEGAN AS AN
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR TO I.S. JOHAR BEFORE WORKING WITH HIS ELDER BROTHER, THE
LEGENDARY B.R. CHOPRA; WHILE ANOTHER BROTHER, DHARAM CHOPRA, WORKED AS HIS
CAMERAMAN. HE WAS GIVEN HIS FIRST DIRECTORIAL OPPORTUNITY WITH DHOOL KA PHOOL
(1959), A MELODRAMA ABOUT ILLEGITIMACY; IT BECAME A HIT AND EVEN NOW REMAINS
POPULAR TODAY. ENCOURAGED BY THIS SUCCESS, THE CHOPRA BROTHERS MADE A FEW MORE
MOVIES TOGETHER, THE MOST NOTABLE BEING WAQT (1965), INDIA'S FIRST
MULTI-STARRER; AND ITTEFAQ (1969), A THRILLER. ON THE PERSONAL FRONT, CHOPRA
MARRIED PAMELA CHOPRA (NÉE SINGH) IN 1970, AND THEY HAD TWO CHILDREN, ADITYA
CHOPRA AND UDAY CHOPRA, BOTH WORKING IN THE FILM INDUSTRY TODAY.
IN 1973,
THE CHOPRA BROTHERS SEPARATED, WITH YASH CHOPRA FOUNDED HIS STUDIO, YASH RAJ
FILMS, AND LAUNCHED IT WITH DAAG: A POEM OF LOVE (1973), A SUCCESSFUL MELODRAMA
ABOUT A POLYGAMOUS MAN. HE THEN ENTERED ONE OF HIS BEST PHASES WITH TWO AMITABH
BACHCHAN CLASSICS: DEEWAAR (1975) AND KABHI KABHIE - LOVE IS LIFE (1976). THESE
MOVIES SET THE STANDARD FOR THE 1970S AND 1980S, ESTABLISHING BACHCHAN AS THE
GREATEST AND MOST BELOVED INDIAN FILM STAR OF ALL TIME. HIS RESPECTIVE ROLES--A
BITTER CRIMINAL AND A SENSITIVE, BROODING POET--ARE CONSIDERED TO BE HIS
GREATEST PERFORMANCES, ALTHOUGH COMPLETE OPPOSITES OF EACH OTHER.
IN THE
1980S, CHOPRA WENT THROUGH A ROUGH TIME. TWO OF HIS MELODRAMAS, SILSILA (1981)
AND FAASLE (1985); AND TWO ACTION-ORIENTED FILMS, MASHAAL (1984) AND VIJAY
(1988), FLOPPED AT THE BOX OFFICE, ALTHOUGH THE LATTER BECAME A CRITICALLY
ACCLAIMED CLASSIC YEARS LATER. HOWEVER, HE MADE A COMEBACK WITH HIS MUSICAL
LOVE TRIANGLE CHANDNI (1989). THE FILM WAS A HUGE SUCCESS, WITH GREAT
PERFORMANCES BY ESTABLISHED HEROINE SRIDEVI AND ACTION HERO VINOD KHANNA. THEN
CAME WHAT CRITICS AND CHOPRA HIMSELF CONSIDERED HIS BEST FILM, LAMHE (1991), A
BEAUTIFUL FILM ABOUT CROSS-GENERATIONAL LOVE. IT COULDN'T SURVIVE THE BOX
OFFICE, HOWEVER, DUE TO ITS INCESTUOUS NATURE.
PARAMPARA
(1992), DONE FOR AN OUTSIDE PRODUCER, WAS A MISFIRE, BUT THEN CAME THE
BOX-OFFICE HIT AND TREND SETTER DARR (1993). STARRING THE THEN-DÉBUTANT SHAH
RUKH KHAN, IT SHOWED A SYMPATHETIC LOOK AT OBSESSIVE LOVE AND AN EMOTION OFTEN
OVERLOOKED IN LOVE--FEAR--AND ITS SUCCESS CATAPULTED KHAN TO SUPER-STARDOM. IN
1995, CHOPRA TURNED TO PRODUCTION AND ADITYA CHOPRA MADE HIS DIRECTORIAL DEBUT
WITH DILWALE DULHANIA LE JAYENGE (1995), WHICH HAD THE LONGEST-RUNNING INITIAL
RELEASE IN CINEMA HISTORY. HE DIRECTED ONE MORE FILM, DIL TO PAGAL HAI (1997),
A LOVE STORY SET AGAINST THE THEATER, WHICH BECAME A HUGE SUCCESS AND A CULT
HIT, BEFORE HE RETIRED FROM DIRECTING. HOWEVER, IN 2004, HE MADE A GRAND
COMEBACK WITH VEER-ZAARA (2004), A TOUCHING CROSS-BORDER LOVE STORY, WHICH HE
SAID WOULD BE HIS LAST DIRECTORIAL EFFORT.
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