Yash Chopra  share

He is regarded as one of the hippest and trendiest directors of Indian cinema. Born in Jullunder, Punjab on 27th September 1932 Yash Chopra began his career as an assistant director to I.S. Johar before moving on to assisting big brother B.R. Chopra. His directorial debut was the socially significant Dhool ka Phool, an epic melodrama about unwed motherhood, illegitimacy and a plea for communal harmony. The film was a major success and took Mala Sinha to dramatic star status. Dharamputra in 1961 addressing communal harmony was not too successful despite having its strong moments but the multi-starrer Waqt in 1965 based on the lost and found genre was his major commercial breakthrough and even went on to win for him his first Filmfare Award for Best Director. He followed this up with a taut bold little thriller Ittefaq (1969). It was an extremely bold film for its time. Not only was it song less, but the hero Rajesh Khanna and heroine Nanda were not even paired with one another. He just happens to be on the run and takes shelter in her house And, she is having an adulterous affair and has killed her husband with the help of her lover! The film is mainly shot in one house with taut editing that keeps up the suspense in the film. He possesses a rare aesthetic knack of making his films look larger than life. His hallmark has always been the presentation of his screenplay embellished with gorgeous locations, snow-capped mountains, lakes and rivers, beautiful women draped in the most gorgeous costumes amidst fields of flowers - sights that he paints with his visual imagery. Love and romance inevitably happen to his characters who have become icons for film buffs.
Breaking away from BR Films, he launched his own production banner Yashraj Films with Daag in 1973. He was one of the first directors to shoot his films out of India and Switzerland, Holland, Germany and the United Kingdom have become even more popular with the Asian population, who has been enamored by the locales in his films. He then entered one of his best phases with Amitabh Bachchan – with big hits like Deewaar, Kabhi Kabhie, a love story across two generations, and Trishu in 1978 among others. Deewaar is probably one of the most memorable Hindi films of all time. What sets it apart is the taut script perhaps one of the best ever Salim - Javed Script, the powerful dialogues and above all a powerhouse performance by Amitabh Bachchan as the son driven to crime - perhaps his best ever! The film is one of a series in which he plays the \'angry young man\'- the lone rebel, the man seeking personal vengeance and social justice, operating outside and more efficiently than the law- A far cry from the sensitive poet of Kabhie Kabhie.
Trishul had as its main ingredient a father - son conflict with an illegitimate son destroying his father for abandoning him and his mother. Once again the mother is the crucial emotional force of the film. The 1980s saw him go through a rough patch as one after another - Silsila, Mashaal, Faasle, and Vijay all flopped. However Chandni in 1989, a love triangle with memorable music and a great central performance by Sridevi, brought him back in the reckoning. Lamhe,/m in 1991, a beautiful and sensitive film of cross-generational love however did not go down with audiences who found it incestuous though there are many who regard it to be his best film. It certainly is one of his best works. Parampara in 1993 done for an outside producer was a misfire, but Darr in 1993, a sympathetic look at obsessive love and an emotion often overlooked in love - fear, was a trendsetter leading to several other films of the same type Anjaam in 1994, Daraar in 1996 etc. having an obsessive lover! The film also led to a long time association with Shah Rukh Khan who played the grey role superbly after Aamir Khan declined to do the film.
Dil to Paagal Hai in 1997, a love triangle with the musical theatre as the backdrop is refreshingly young and hip as it plays off against the traditional beliefs of an ordinary girl played by Madhuri Dixit that she would find true love someday. Though a huge success at the box office it was met with lukewarm critical response. His last film has been the Indo-Pak love story Veer Zaara in 2004 starring Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta and Rani Mukherji. With a career spanning over five decades, he has been associated with almost 35 films, most of which have created box-office history. Out of these, he has directed 12 films himself, while the others have been directed by younger directors – under his supervision and administrative acumen as one of India’s greatest producers .Arguably he can be called India’s most successful confluence of creativity and administrative genius - as he dons his two hats - as a director and a producer. His characters bear no semblance to the breed of Rambo and do not know the cult of the biceps at all. Good, clean, people, belonging mostly to the upper middle class, they mirror the mores and luxuriant life-styles of the higher echelons. Story-wise, his narratives unfold in purple and pink - colors and themes that make him one of the last romantics in popular cinema of the last two decades. His sense of music, an integral part of Indian cinema, is renowned - musical scores from his films have become the largest selling albums in Indian film history.

Awards:
• Dadasaheb Phalke Award - 2001.
• Best Director Award - Filmfare Award – Waqt - 1965.
• Best Director Award - Filmfare Award – Ittefaq - 1969.
• Best Director Award - Filmfare Award - Daag: A Poem of Love - 1973.
• Best Director Award - Filmfare Award – Deewar - 1975.
• Filmfare Power Award - Filmfare Award - 2006.
• Filmfare Power Award - Filmfare Award - 2007.
• Filmfare Power Award - Filmfare Award - 2008.
• Best Movie Award - Filmfare Awards – Deewar - 1975.
• Best Movie Award - Filmfare Awards – Lamhe - 1991.

Best Movie Award - Filmfare Awards - Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge - 1995.

Best Movie Award Filmfare Awards - Dil To Pagal Hai - 1997.

Lifetime Achievement Award - Pune International Film Festival - 2006.

Lifetime Achievement Award - IIFA Award.

Lifetime Achievement Award - Dr. Dadabhai Naoroji Millennium - 2001.

Honors:
• Yash Chopra was honoured along with the Egyptian comedy superstar Adel Imam and the Oscar Winning actor Morgan Freeman as the Asian, Arab and Hollywood honorees in the Dubai Film Festival \"In the Spotlight\", which honors the work of eminent actors, producers and directors from around the world for their distinguished service to the film industry.
• He has been honoured by the Swiss Government for rediscovering Switzerland and recently, he was presented a Special Award by Ms. Ursula Andress on behalf of the Swiss Government.
• He is currently on the Advisory Board of the Information & Broadcasting Ministry of the Government of India.
• He is the Founder Trustee of Film Industry Welfare Trust established in the year 1996.
• He is the Vice President of the Film Producers’ Guild of India since the last 10 years.
• He is the only Indian Film Producer and Director to receive the BBC Asia Awards twice – in 1998 and 2001 for his outstanding contribution in films.
• He is the recipient of the Dr. Dadabhai Naoroji Millennium Lifetime Achievement in 2001.
• He is the recipient of Certificate of Recognition from the British Tourist Authority and British Film Commission for promoting tourism in the UK through his films.
• He is the recipient of the Vocational Excellence Award by the Rotary Club.
• He has been awarded Outstanding Achievement Awards by the apex bodies of Indian Industry – like the CII (Confederation of Indian Industry).
• He was honored by the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) at Malaysia for his outstanding contribution to Indian Cinema.
• The British Film Institute handpicked Yash Chopra for a book written by Dr. Rachel Dwyer in their ‘World Directors Series’. This book was launched amidst great fanfare in London and showcases the glorious 5-decade career of Yash Chopra.
  
• He was honoured by NAASCOM (National Association of Software and Service Companies) and AIAI (All India Association of Industries) for his outstanding achievements.
• He has also been awarded the prestigious \"Priyadarshini Award\" for his outstanding contribution to Indian Cinema. This award was presented to him by the Deputy Prime Minister Mr.L.K.Advani.
• He was also chosen for the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2001, the topmost and the highest honour given in the Indian film industry.
• He was honoured with the “Marketing King Award”.
• He is the only film-maker to have won the National Film Awards five times.
• He has won eleven Filmfare Awards, the only living director to have won eleven times and various other Association Awards innumerable times.

Spouse:

Pamela

Father:	Mr. Vilayati Raj Chopra
Brother(s):	B.R. Chopra(Director)
Son(s):	Uday Chopra(Actor)