| Name(s) |
YASH RAJ CHOPRA |
| Date of
Birth |
September 27, 1932
- born in Jalandhar, Punjab, India. |
| Date of
Death |
October 21, 2012 |
|
Identity |
Indian film
director, script writer and film producer |
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Other Events &
Developments |
- He predominantly worked in Hindi cinema.
- Yash Chopra began his career as an assistant director to
I. S. Johar and 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).
- Encouraged by the success of both films, the Chopra
brothers made several more movies together during the late
fifties and sixties.
- He rose to prominence after his commercially and
critically successful drama, Waqt (1965), which pioneered
the concept of ensemble casts in Bollywood.
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