Yash Chopra
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Yash Raj Chopra who was born 27 September 1932 in Lahore, British India is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, and a highly successful Bollywood producer. Waqt, Deewar, Kabhi Kabhie, Lamhe, Darr, Dil To Pagal Hai, and Veer-Zaara are some of his highly popular movies. He is the founder of Yash Raj Films.
Yash initially worked as an assistant to I. S. Johar, and then for his director-producer brother, B.R. Chopra. Chopra gave him his first directorial opportunity in Dhool Ka Phool. Later he set up his own movie production company, Yash Raj Films, under which Daag of 1973 was his first movie.
A string of hits with Amitabh Bachchan made him a prized director with a special working relationship with Bachchan (Ramesh Sippy , Prakash Mehra, Manmohan Desai, and Hrishikesh Mukherjee being the other four).
[edit] Personal life
Yash and his wife, Pamela, have two sons Aditya and Uday. Aditya is also a film director and manages most of Yash Rāj Production House. Uday is an actor; he received his first break in Aditya's Mohabbatein.
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