Background
Aditya Chopra is the elder son of Yash Chopra and Pamela Chopra. His father was an Indian film director, script writer and film producer, predominantly working in Hindi cinema. His mother is a Bollywood playback singer.
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Aditya Chopra is the elder son of Yash Chopra and Pamela Chopra. His father was an Indian film director, script writer and film producer, predominantly working in Hindi cinema. His mother is a Bollywood playback singer.
Chopra started his film making career at the age of 18 as an assistant director, working with his father for films like “Chandni”, “Lamhe” and “Darr”. Chopra, after gaining a respectable amount of experience, started independently at the age of 23 with the all time blockbuster “Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge”, for which he was the director and writer. The film was scripted by Chopra and produced by his father Yash Chopra, under the Yash Raj Films banner. Chopra eventually went on to write the dialogues and the story of his father's 1997 blockbuster “Dil To Pagal Hai" (which won the National Award), also made under Yash Raj Films. His next film as a director was “Mohabbatein”. The next film under the Yash Raj Films banner was “Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai”, in 2002 and also starred his brother Uday. The film did moderately well at the box office. Aditya went on to produce and write several other highly commercial and critically acclaimed films over the years namely “Hum Tum”, “Dhoom,Veer Zaara” (which won the National Award), “Bunty Aur Babli”, “Salaam Namaste”, “Fanaa”, “Dhoom 2” and “Chak De India” (which also won the National Award).
