Yash Chopra

**Yash Raj Chopra** (, 27 September 1932 – 21 October, 2012) is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, and a highly successful Bollywood producer. Some of his successful movies are : _Waqt _, _Deewaar_, _Kabhi Kabhie_, _Silsila_, _Lamhe_, _Chandni_, _Darr_, _Dil To Pagal Hai_, and _Veer-Zaara_. He is also the founder of **Yash Raj Films**.

## BR Chopra Mahabharat Awards

The Mahabharat (1988 TV series) was nominated and won the Uptron Awards 1988 in many categories

|Year|Award|Category|Recipient|Result||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="24"|1988|rowspan="2"|Uptron Awards|Best Director|Ravi Chopra|||
|Best Mythological Series|BR Studios|||||||
|rowspan="3"|Uptron Awards|Best Actor in a leading role|Pankaj Dheer|||||
|Best Supporting Actor|Mukesh Khanna|||||||
|Best Supporting Actor|Nitish Bharadwaj|||||||
|Uptron Awards|Best Actress|Roopa Ganguly||||||
|Uptron Awards|Best Supporting Actress|Nazneen||||||
|Uptron Awards|Other nominees|Puneet Issar; Gufi Paintal; Surendra Pal||||||
The other nominees included the other supporting cast of the show such as Shakuni, Drona etc who were praised for their work in the Award ceremony.

## About

Yash Chopra is undoubtedly India's most successful filmmaker. With a career spanning over five decades, he has been associated with almost 35 films, most of which have created box-office history.

He started out as an assistant to his brother and went on to direct 5 very successful films for his brother’s banner - B.R.Films. These were Dhool Ka Phool (1959), Dharmputra (1961), Waqt (1965), Ittefaq (1969) & Aadmi Aur Insaan (1969). He has wielded the baton, additionally, for 4 films made by other film companies - Joshila (1973), Deewaar (1975), Trishul (1978) & Parampara (1993). But his greatest repertoire of work has been around 30 films made under the auspices of his own company, YASH RAJ FILMS. 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.

## Career

Yash worked as an assistant for _I. S. Chopra_ and later he was working for his brother, who was also in the movie industry, _Baldev R. Chopra_. Baldev provided Yash an opportunity to direct his first movie which was named as _Dhool Ka Phool_ and was released in 1959. Yash later set up his own company under the name _Yash Raj Films_ and the first movie to be released under this company was _Daag_ in 1973.

Yash has produced more than 45 movies and has directed more than 20 movies, thus making him one of the most successful filmmaker/producer in India.

### Filmfare Awards

|Years|Category|Films|Results|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1965|Filmfare Best Director Award,|_Waqt_||
|1969,|_Ittefaq_|||
|1973,|_Daag_|||
|1975|_Deewar_|||
|1991|Filmfare Best Movie Award|_Lamhe_||
|1995|_Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge_|||
|1997|_Dil To Pagal Hai_|||
|2004|_Veer-Zaara_|||
|2006|Filmfare Power Award|||
|2007||||
|2008||||

### National Film Awards

|Years|Category|Films|Results|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1990|Best Popular Film|_Chandni_||
|1994|_Darr_'|||
|1996|_Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge_'|||
|1998|_Dil To Pagal Hai_'|||
|2005|_Veer-Zaara_'|||

## Other websites

- _Yash Chopra_ at timesofindia.com
- _Yash Chopra_  at ApunkaChoice.com

## Infobox (person)

- **image**: Yash Chopra 2012.jpg
- **name**: Yash Chopra
- **birth place**: Lahore, British Raj, British India
- **death place**: Mumbai, India
- **death cause**: Multiple Organ Failure
- **spouse**: Pamela
- **children**: Two sons :- Aditya Chopra and Uday Chopra