Vidhu Vinod Chopra

Burman received a Filmfare Award for Best Music Director and the film won a total of nine awards at the 40th Filmfare Awards.

Chopra's next film, 1942: A Love Story (1994), was a patriotic romantic drama set during the decline of the British Raj.

With Anil Kapoor and Manisha Koirala in lead roles, it was also the last film to have its music composed by the legendary R. D. Burman.

His critically acclaimed films include Parinda, 1942: A Love Story, Mission Kashmir, the Munna Bhai series, Parineeta, and 3 Idiots.

3 Idiots went on to become one of the most successful films in India, and became the first film in the country to cross Rs.

200 crore at the boxoffice.

It also found popular appeal in markets like Taiwan and Korea.

His other films, PK and Sanju were one of the highest grossing Indian films.

Vidhu Vinod Chopra (born 5 September 1952) is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter and editor.

He is the recipient of several accolades, including four National Film Awards, ten Filmfare Awards and an Academy Award nomination.

Chopra's first student short film, Murder at Monkey Hill (1976), won the National Film Award for Best Short Experimental Film and the Guru Dutt Memorial Award for Best Student Film.

This was followed by a short documentary highlighting the plight of India's destitute children, called An Encounter with Faces (1976), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film in 1979.

He has been married thrice, his first wife was noted editor Renu Saluja (m. 1976–1983), he was then married to filmmaker Shabnam Sukhdev (m. 1985–1989), the daughter of S. Sukhdev (1933–1979) a well known director of documentaries for the Films Division of India.

He has a daughter with Shabnam, Ishaa Chopra, who works as a dance instructor and choreographer.

It also won the Grand Prix at the Tampere Film Festival in 1980.

Sazaye Maut, his first full-length feature film, was an adaptation of his previous short, Murder at Monkey Hill.

It starred Naseeruddin Shah, Radha Saluja and Dilip Dhawan.

Vanraj Bhatia composed the music for the film.

For Khamosh, his next directorial venture, Chopra assembled a cast featuring some of the finest acting talent in India.

Shabana Azmi, Amol Palekar, Naseeruddin Shah and Pankaj Kapoor, among others, appeared in prominent roles.

An inventive meta thriller set in Kashmir, Khamosh remains one of the notable Indian films in the genre.

He founded his own production company, Vinod Chopra Films, in 1985.

Since then, the company has gone on to produce major Bollywood films, and is currently one of the biggest and most successful film production houses in India.

Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak affectionately gave him the name 'Vidhu'.

His well-known films as director are the crime drama Parinda (1989), the patriotic romantic drama 1942: A Love Story (1994), the action drama Mission Kashmir (2000) and the biographical drama 12th Fail (2023).

His next directorial, the crime drama Parinda (1989), proved to be a landmark film in Hindi cinema.

It expanded the orbit of the crime drama and the vocabulary of images used in Hindi films while garnering widespread critical acclaim and numerous awards.

Several modern Indian filmmakers have expressed their admiration for and drawn inspiration from Chopra's film.

His mother was Shanti Devi Mahalakshmi, who left Kashmir, due to the Kashmir conflict in 1990.

He dedicated his film Shikara to his mother, which was based on the same.

He studied film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune.

His last directorial feature film, Eklavya: The Royal Guard released in 2007.

He is also known for producing the Munna Bhai film series, 3 Idiots (2009), PK (2014), and Sanju (2018) under his banner Vinod Chopra Films.

Chopra was born and grew up in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.

His father was D. N. Chopra and veteran filmmaker Ramanand Sagar was his half-brother.

His parents were originally from Peshawar, British India.

He also made his Hollywood directorial debut with the film Broken Horses in 2015.

However, it received a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 22%, and was a commercial disaster, only making Rs.

60 lakh in its opening weekend.

His latest film, Shikara is a Hindi language historical romance film released on 7 February 2020 marking his return to direction in India after 13 years.