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Aditya Chopra
Born 1971 · Male · Mumbai, India
Son of Yash Chopra and Pamela Chopra
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b. 1971
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Aditya Chopra is an Indian film director and producer, the elder son of Yash Chopra and Pamela Chopra. He made his directorial debut with Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), which became one of Hindi cinema's most successful and longest-running films. He later directed Mohabbatein (2000) and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008), and today serves as chairman and managing director of Yash Raj Films (YRF), the studio founded by h…
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Gen 2 · 1914 - 2008
Baldev Raj Chopra, known professionally as B.R. Chopra, was an Indian film director and producer born on 22 April 1914 in Ludhiana, Punjab, and raised in Lahore, where he worked as a film journalist before entering the film industry. He founded B.R. Films in 1955 and directed landmark Hindi films including Naya Daur (1957), Waqt (1965), Gumrah, and Nikaah, tackling social themes rarely addressed in mainstream cinema of the time. Later, with his son Ravi Chopra, he produced the enormously popular television adaptation of the Mahabharata (1988-1990). He was the elder brother of Yash Chopra, whom he brought into the film industry and mentored early in his career. B.R. Chopra died in Mumbai on 5 November 2008.
Ravi Chopra
Gen 3 · 1946 - 2014
Ravi Chopra was an Indian film director and producer, the son of B.R. Chopra, who worked alongside his father at B.R. Films for much of his career. He is best known for directing the television series Mahabharat (1988-1990), a hugely popular adaptation of the Hindu epic produced by his father, which became one of Indian television's most watched programmes. He also directed feature films including Baghban (2003), a family drama that was a major commercial success, as well as Aaj Ki Awaaz and Zameer. After B.R. Chopra's death in 2008, Ravi Chopra continued to run B.R. Films until his own death in 2014.
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