Yash Chopra

Directing

Yash Chopra

Born — Died

1932-09-27 — 2012-10-21

Place of birth

Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar, Punjab, India

Known for

Directing

Credits

48 titles

Yash Raj Chopra was a highly accomplished Indian filmmaker. The founder of film studio, Yash Raj Films - he was responsible for some of the most popular Bollywood films to come out of India in the past 40 years. Chopra won several prestigious awards including the Filmfare Award for Best Director, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award and Padma Bhushan.

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 3 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge poster
8.5

Raj is a rich, carefree, happy-go-lucky second generation NRI. Simran is the daughter of Chaudhary Baldev Singh, who in spite of being an NRI is very strict about adherence to Indian values. Simran has left for India to be married to her childhood fiancé. Raj leaves for India with a mission at his hands, to claim his lady love under the noses of her whole family. Thus begins a saga.

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

1995

Veer-Zaara poster
7.5

Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh, a pilot in the Indian Air Force, rescues the stranded Zaara, a woman from Pakistan, following a bus accident, and their lives are forever bound.

Veer-Zaara

2004

Veer-Zaara poster
7.5

Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh, a pilot in the Indian Air Force, rescues the stranded Zaara, a woman from Pakistan, following a bus accident, and their lives are forever bound.

Veer-Zaara

2004

Mohabbatein poster
7.1

At a prestigious all-male university, three friends seek love outside of the school grounds; at the same time, a newly-hired music teacher seeks to befriend and loosen up the militantly strict headmaster.

Mohabbatein

2000

Mujhse Dosti Karoge! poster
6.3

A man falls in love with his childhood friend, but another friend is the one who reciprocates his feelings.

Mujhse Dosti Karoge!

2002

Jab Tak Hai Jaan poster
7.0

Samar Anand, a London-based struggling musician falls in love with Meera Thappar. After a severe accident, a panicked Meera promises God to leave Samar if he lives. Heartbroken, Samar leaves for India to become a fearless bomb disposal expert in the army.

Jab Tak Hai Jaan

2012

Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi poster
7.1

A boring, reserved husband secretly becomes a lively, confident stranger to woo his own unaware wife only to make her fall head over heels for his dashing alter ego.

Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

2008

Dil To Pagal Hai poster
6.9

Rahul, the director of a successful dance troupe, considers Nisha his best friend, though secretly, she is madly in love with him. He then falls for Pooja, who is engaged to Ajay.

Dil To Pagal Hai

1997

Dil To Pagal Hai poster
6.9

Rahul, the director of a successful dance troupe, considers Nisha his best friend, though secretly, she is madly in love with him. He then falls for Pooja, who is engaged to Ajay.

Dil To Pagal Hai

1997

Dil To Pagal Hai poster
6.9

Rahul, the director of a successful dance troupe, considers Nisha his best friend, though secretly, she is madly in love with him. He then falls for Pooja, who is engaged to Ajay.

Dil To Pagal Hai

1997

Dhoom 2 poster
6.6

Jai and Ali return, this time on the trail of an international thief who steals priceless artifacts and has chosen Mumbai as his next target.

Dhoom 2

2006

Darr poster
6.9

A woman is caught between one man's love and another man's obsession. She fears one and fears for the other. One stands for love and the other for life. Who will she choose?

Darr

1993

Darr poster
6.9

A woman is caught between one man's love and another man's obsession. She fears one and fears for the other. One stands for love and the other for life. Who will she choose?

Darr

1993

Ladies vs Ricky Bahl poster
6.0

A smooth and charming conman, Ricky Bahl, cons girls for a living but finally meets his match is this fun-filled "ROM-CON."

Ladies vs Ricky Bahl

2011

Chak De! India poster
7.2

A team of rag-tag girls with their own agenda form Team India competing for international fame in field hockey. Their coach, the ex-men's Indian National team captain, returns from a life of shame after being unjustly accused of match fixing in his last match. Can he give the girls the motivation required to win, while dealing with the shadows of his own past?

Chak De! India

2007

Pyaar Impossible! poster
5.3

Be-spectacled geek, Abhay falls in love with college hottie, Alisha and silently slinks away into the shadows when he realises she's unattainable. Seven years later, he re-enters her life as the nanny and hopes to woo the single mom, this time at least. Does he succeed?

Pyaar Impossible!

2010

Deewaar poster
7.2

Haunted by the past, Vijay turns to crime, while Ravi, his brother, becomes an honest police officer. Fate pits them against each other when Ravi is sent to nab Vijay.

Deewaar

1975

Hum Tum poster
6.4

The encounters of two people who run into each other on several occasions under circumstances ranging from friendly to hostile to loving. Along many years and countless run-ins, the two despise each other, befriend each other, and fall in love with each other—in no particular order.

Hum Tum

2004

Faasle poster
8.0

Vijay and Chandni are in love. Her father does not approve.

Faasle

1985

Salaam Namaste poster
6.2

Two young Indian expatriates in Melbourne, Australia, Nick, a chef and radio host Ambar, who decide to live together without marriage, leading to conflict and unexpected parenthood when Ambar gets pregnant.

Salaam Namaste

2005

Saathiya poster
6.2

A couple elopes to get married and set up home hoping that just love will do the trick - but that's just the beginning of their story.

Saathiya

2002

Parampara poster
6.3

In a remote region in India there has been a tradition of settling differences by fighting a duel with pistols with only one bullet in each of them. Such was the duel fought by Shankar and Thakur Bhavani Singh, with the latter emerging as the victor. Years later, Bhavani's son, Prithvi, returns from London, meets Shankar's son, Gora and daughter, Tara, befriends them, and eventually both Tara and Prithvi fall in love with each other. When Bhavani finds this out, he wants Prithvi to marry Rajeshwari, who comes from a rich family, and will destroy Gora Shankar and his tribe of gypsies. Unable to make up his mind, Prithvi ends up marrying both women, leading to Tara giving birth to a son, Pratap. Bhavani is enraged when he this out, he has Tara and a lot of their people slain, and their homes torched. Gora himself is arrested by the police, and sentenced to several years in prison...

Parampara

1993

Chandni poster
6.9

Fate leaves Chandni shattered as her love Rohit disappears from her life. She meets Lalit and they befriend each other until Rohit knocks on her door.

Chandni

1989

Aadmi Aur Insaan poster
5.4

Two close friends, Munish and Jai, with unbreakable bond become rivals when they both fall in love with the same woman, Meena. When Jai gets falsely accused in a case involving a collapsed railway bridge, Munish has to decide if he should put their rivalry aside to help and save once close friend Jai.

Aadmi Aur Insaan

1969

Bunty Aur Babli poster
6.3

Bunty and Babli are two young people who randomly meet each other after running away from their homes to chase their dream. After facing hurdles in their path they decide to take up conning and soon become the best con artists in the country. However, their success is threatened as a relentless cop is on their trail.

Bunty Aur Babli

2005

Lamhe poster
6.7

Viren falls for Pallavi, but she marries Siddharth. The couple dies, leaving behind their daughter, who grows up to look just like her mother and falls in love with Viren.

Lamhe

1991

Lamhe poster
6.7

Viren falls for Pallavi, but she marries Siddharth. The couple dies, leaving behind their daughter, who grows up to look just like her mother and falls in love with Viren.

Lamhe

1991

Kaala Patthar poster
7.5

Vijay Singh is a disgraced former Merchant-Navy officer who is branded as a coward after he abandons his crew during an emergency. Guilt-ridden and trying to forget his past, he takes up work at a coal mine where he gets trapped with other miners after a flood hits them.

Kaala Patthar

1979

Kaala Patthar poster
7.5

Vijay Singh is a disgraced former Merchant-Navy officer who is branded as a coward after he abandons his crew during an emergency. Guilt-ridden and trying to forget his past, he takes up work at a coal mine where he gets trapped with other miners after a flood hits them.

Kaala Patthar

1979

Noorie poster
7.0

Noorie lives in the Bhaderwah valleys with her father, Ghulam Nabi and her dog Khairoo, she has a boyfriend Yusuf, they decide to get married, the date is decided and preparations begin. But fate had something else in store. As another villager Bashir Khan takes a liking to Noorie and approaches Noorie's father for her hand, to which Ghulam Nabi refuses.

Noorie

1979

Ishaqzaade poster
6.0

While fighting for the political supremacy of their respective families, a Hindu man and a Muslim woman share a forbidden romance.

Ishaqzaade

2012

Trishul poster
6.4

Vijay Kumar is the illegitimate son of a construction baron, Raj Kumar Gupta and his first love, Shanti, whom Raj had given up in order to marry a wealthy heiress. Raj does not know of this son, who grows up and after his mother's death comes to Delhi to take revenge on the Gupta family by destroying the family's business and their relation with each other.

Trishul

1978

Kabhi Kabhie poster
6.4

A story spanning two generations, where two lovers are forced to marry against their will, but hold onto memories of their romance. Years later circumstances force them to confront their spouses, their children and each other.

Kabhi Kabhie

1976

Kabhi Kabhie poster
6.4

A story spanning two generations, where two lovers are forced to marry against their will, but hold onto memories of their romance. Years later circumstances force them to confront their spouses, their children and each other.

Kabhi Kabhie

1976

Silsila poster
6.3

When his brother's tragic death leaves his pregnant fiancée devastated, playwright Amit selflessly marries her to protect her from societal contempt. However, when fate brings him face-to-face with his former flame, love proves to be stronger than marital vows.

Silsila

1981

Silsila poster
6.3

When his brother's tragic death leaves his pregnant fiancée devastated, playwright Amit selflessly marries her to protect her from societal contempt. However, when fate brings him face-to-face with his former flame, love proves to be stronger than marital vows.

Silsila

1981

Silsila poster
6.3

When his brother's tragic death leaves his pregnant fiancée devastated, playwright Amit selflessly marries her to protect her from societal contempt. However, when fate brings him face-to-face with his former flame, love proves to be stronger than marital vows.

Silsila

1981

Vijay poster
4.4

Vijay is a story about various characters that are bound by relationships of love and friendship. How they become foes and take up weapons against each other. When Arjun and Vicky meet, they are oblivious to the fact that they are cousin brothers.

Vijay

1988

Vijay poster
4.4

Vijay is a story about various characters that are bound by relationships of love and friendship. How they become foes and take up weapons against each other. When Arjun and Vicky meet, they are oblivious to the fact that they are cousin brothers.

Vijay

1988

Sawaal poster
7.0

Seth Dhanpath Rai (Sanjeev Kumar) is the country's most powerful smuggler who is surrounded by his fortress of power and money. Then one fine day, his daughter Sonia (Poonam Dhillon) falls in love with Ravi Malhotra (Shashi Kapoor), a police officer and wants to marry him. Dhanpath Rai very soon realizes that his son Vicky (Randhir Kapoor) has also taken a path that goes against the one he travels. Vicky has been engaged with a pretty but poor girl (Swaroop Sampat). Now the question begins to haunt Seth Dhanpat rai - "What is more important? His children's happiness or what he is, i.e. power and money.". Dhanpath Rai's question is answered soon. At the end Seth Dhanpath Rai finds true wealth in his life.

Sawaal

1982