Yash Chopra

Yash Rāj Chopra (Hindi: यश चोपड़ा, born 27 September 1932) is a writer, director, and producer of Bollywood movies in India. Waqt, Deewār, Lamhe, Darr, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, 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 Choprā was born in Lahore (now in Pakistan) in a Punjābi family on September 17, 1932. He was the youngest of the eight children of Vilāyati Rāj Choprā. Yash initially worked as an assistant to I. S. Johar, and then for his director-producer brother, B.R. Chopra. Baldev Rāj gave him his first directorial opportunity in Dhool Ka Phool. Later he set up his own movie production company, Yash Raj Films. Dāg (1973) was Yash's first movie under Yash Rāj 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... full article at wikipedia