'King of Romance' Yash Chopra

September 27, 1932, Born in Lahore to a Punjabi family. Chopra moved to India after the Partition. Chopra's basic plan was to pursue a career in Engineering. His passion for film making led him to travel to Mumbai where he initially worked as an assistant director to I.S. Johar, and then for his director-producer brother B RChopra. The Chopra brothers made several more movies together during the late 50s and 60s.

 He began his career as an assistant director to his elder brother B R Chopra and directed his own first film ' 'Dhool Ka Phool'  in 1959. Chopra 's first commercial hit was a multi-starrer family drama Waqt.         In 1973, Chopra founded his own production company, Yash Raj Films, and launched it with "Daag: A Poem of Love" starr rajesh & sharmila.  

 '80s several films he directed and produced failed at box office. Chopra rose like phoenix with the grand hit movie Chandni thus beginning his journey of making romantic Hindi movies.  After that he directed  classic Lamhe  in 1991.

And this was the time Yash Chopra changed the face of ROMANCe in Bollywood.

Chopra who was one of the pillars in Bollywood, directed some of Indian cinema's most successful and iconic films "Deewar" which established megastar Amitabh Bachchan as the "angry youngman". The hit duo of Chopra and Bachchan worked together again in romantic drama "Kabhi Kabhie, Trishul, Silsila". Chopra is today known mostly for the romantic films like  'Silsila', Chandni, DDLJ, DTPH, Veer-Zaara, JTHJ. His association with SRK began with the 1993 romantic psyo thriller Darr, which turned out to be a superhit. Even though he lauched yash raj music under his banner.