Nominated- Filmfare Award for Best Film, Nominated- Filmfare Award for Best Director National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi
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He also produced TV Series on Bahadur Shah Zafar, Kanoon (1993), Aap Beeti, Vishnu Puran (2000) and Maa Shakti. Incidentally, both Chopra and Kapoor died within a gap of little longer than a month in 2008, with the latter dying first.Ĭhopra forayed into television with Mahabharat, one of the most successful TV serials in Indian television history, where Nitish Bharadwaj played the role of Krishna and this was co-directed by him with his son. The reason behind this was never revealed by him or the singers. Chopra is the relatively low number of songs sung by Lata Mangeshkar and Mohammed Rafi in his films, with Asha Bhosle and Mahendra Kapoor being his preferred singers. (Director-producer Yash Chopra cast Mahendra Kapoor's son in Faasle.) One prominent thing about B. He was the producer for the films Dhool Ka Phool, Waqt, Aadmi Aur Insaan and Ittefaq directed by his younger brother Yash Chopra, and he also produced The Burning Train, Aaj Ki Awaaz, Mazdoor, Baghban, Baabul, Bhootnath which were directed by Ravi Chopra.Ĭhopra was instrumental in developing the career of singer Mahendra Kapoor, whom he employed in most of his movies. He directed successful film across genres after 1972, with films like suspense thriller Dhund, drama Karma (1977), comedy film Pati Patni Aur Woh, crime film in Insaaf Ka Tarazu, Muslim social in Nikaah and the political thriller Awam. His second film with actor Dilip Kumar was Dastaan which became a flop in 1972. In 1963, he was a member of the jury at the 13th Berlin International Film Festival. His subsequent releases like Kanoon, Gumrah, Humraaz were major hits in the sixties. He followed it up with Naya Daur (1957) starring Dilip Kumar and Vyjayantimala Bali, the film became a golden jubilee hit.
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His first movie for this production house was Ek Hi Raasta which was highly successful.
In 1955, Chopra formed his own production house, B.R Films. Chopra made Chandni Chowk, with Meena Kumari as a lead, in 1954.
His first film as a director, Afsana, was released in 1951 and featured Ashok Kumar in a double role – the film was a hit and established his name in Bollywood. He later moved to Mumbai, where his first production, Karwat, began in 1948, though it turned out to be a flop. After the partition of India into India and Pakistan in 1947, he moved to Delhi.
Just as the production of film was to start, riots broke out in Lahore and he and his family had to flee from the city. Naeem Hashmi was hero of this movie and Erika Rukhshi was the heroine. In the same year, he launched a film with a story by I. He started his career in 1944 as a film journalist with Cine Herald, a film-monthly published in Lahore, he later took over the magazine and ran it until 1947. in English literature from University of the Punjab in Lahore. He was the second of several siblings his youngest brother was filmmaker Yash Chopra. Chopra was born on 22 April 1914 in Rahon, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district (formerly Nawanshahr district) to Vilayati Raj Chopra, an employee of the PWD.