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Pamela Chopra is the wife of the late director-producer Yash Chopra and has long been closely involved with Yash Raj Films (YRF), the studio he founded, contributing to costume design, music, and production on many of its films. She and Yash Chopra married in the 1970s and had two sons, Aditya Chopra, the current chairman of YRF, and Uday Chopra, an actor and producer. Within the close-knit Chopra family, she has bee…
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View all 8 peopleBaldev Raj Chopra
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.
Rani Mukerji
Gen 3 · b. 1978
Rani Mukerji is an Indian actress who has starred in numerous major Hindi films since the late 1990s, including Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), Black (2005), Bunty Aur Babli, Mardaani, and Hichki. Born into a film family, she is the daughter of director-producer Ram Mukherjee, a co-founder of Filmalaya Studios. She married Aditya Chopra, chairman of Yash Raj Films, in a private ceremony in 2014, joining the Chopra family through marriage; the couple have a daughter together. Through her marriage to Aditya Chopra, she became connected to the family founded by his father Yash Chopra and his uncle B.R. Chopra, though her own family lineage is separate from theirs.
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.
Unknown Chopra
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The father of Baldev Raj (B.R.) Chopra and Yash Chopra, the two brothers who together founded Hindi cinema's B.R. Films and Yash Raj Films production houses. He raised his family in Lahore, British India, before the 1947 Partition, after which the Chopras resettled in India. Little else about his own life is publicly documented, but his legacy endures through the multigenerational filmmaking dynasty his sons and grandsons built, from B.R. Films' social dramas and the television epic Mahabharat to Yash Raj Films' romances, now led by his grandson Aditya Chopra.
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