Yash Raj Chopra (Hindi: यश चोपड़ा, born 27 September 1932) is a writer, director, and producer of Bollywood movies in India. Waqt, Deewar, Lamhe, Darr, Dil To Pagal Hai, and Veer-Zaara are some of the highly successful movies which Yash Chopra directed. He is founder of Yash Raj Films.
Yash Chopra was born in Lahore (now in Pakistan) in a Punjabi family on September 17, 1932. He was the youngest of the eight children of Vilayati Raj Chopra. Yash initially worked as an assistant to I. S. Johar, and then for his director-producer brother, B.R. Chopra. Baldev Raj gave him his first directorial opportunity in Dhool Ka Phool. Later he set up his own movie production company, Yash Raj Films.
Dag (1973) was Yash's first movie under Yash Raj banner.
His string of hits with Amitabh made him one of the golden directors who had a special working relationship with Amitabh Bachchan ( Ramesh Sippy , Prakash Mehra, Manmohan Desai, and Hrishikesh Mukherjee being the other four).
Yash and his wife, Pamela, have two sons: Aditya Chopra and Uday Chopra. Aditya is a film director and manages most of Yash Rāj Production House. Uday is an actor; (he received his first break in Aditya's Mohabbatein).
