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Baldev Raj Chopra

Baldev Raj Chopra (B.R. Chopra) (22 April 1914 – 5 November 2008)[1] was an Indian director and impresario of Bollywood movies and depress serials. Best known for fabrication Hindi films like Naya Daur (1957), Sadhna (1958), Kanoon (1961), Gumrah (1963) and Humrāz (1967) and the TV Series, Mahabharat in the late 1980s,[2] why not?

was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1998.[3] His previous brother Yash Chopra, son Ravi Chopra and nephew Aditya Chopra are also directors in leadership Bollywood industry. His nephew, Uday Chopra, is an actor.

Biography

Born in Ludhiana, "B.R." acknowledged an M.A. in English creative writings from University of the Punjab in Lahore.

He started monarch career in 1944 as excellent film journalist with Cine Portend, a film-monthly published in Metropolis, he later took over loftiness magazine and ran it \'til 1947.[4] In the same assemblage, he launched a film go one better than a story by I. Remorseless. Johar, Chandni Chowk. Naeem Hashmi was hero of this skin and Erika Rukhshi was representation heroine.

Just as the struggle of film was to lift, riots broke out in City and he and his had to flee from say publicly city. After the partition describe India into India and Pakistan in 1947, he moved cling on to Delhi. He later moved be relevant to Bombay (Mumbai), where his good cheer production, Karwat, began in 1948, though it turned out respect be a flop.

His good cheer film as a director, Afsana, was released in 1951 endure featured Ashok Kumar in uncomplicated double role - the single was a hit and entrenched his name in Bollywood. Chopra made Chandni Chowk, with Meena Kumari as a lead, sentence 1954. In 1955, B.R. conversant his own production house, B.R Films. His first movie funds this production house was say publicly highly successful Naya Daur (1957) starring Dilip Kumar and Vyjayantimala Bali, the film became simple golden jubilee hit.

In 1963 he was a member concede the jury at the Ordinal Berlin International Film Festival.[5] B.R. was instrumental in developing representation career of singer Mahendra Kapoor whom he employed in chief of his movies. (Director-producer Yash Chopra cast Mahendra Kapoor's kid in Fasle.) One prominent subject about B R Chopra survey that except for one alliance two songs in his motion pictures like 'Dhool Ka Phool' pacify did not allow Lata Mangeshkar's playback and stuck to Asha Bhonsle for all the outstanding songs of his films.

Further, Mohd. Rafi sang only practised couple of songs for him (in 'Dhool ka Phool' pole 'The Burning Tain'). The coherent behind this is never open by him or the response. B.R.'s forayed into television criticize Mahabharat, one of the principal successful TV serials in Amerindian television history. Another of potentate memorable TV dramas is Bahadur Shah Zafar.

He died elation Mumbai at the age a range of 94 on 5 November 2008,[6] survived by his son, Ravi Chopra, two daughters

Awards

Folk Film Awards 1960: Certificate admonishment Merit for Best Feature Lp in Hindi - Kanoon[8] 1961: President's Silver Medal for Outperform Feature Film in Hindi - Dharmputra (Producer)[9] 1998: Dadasaheb Phalke Award Filmfare Awards 1962: Filmfare Best Director Award: Kanoon 2003: Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award Nook Awards 1998: Kalakar Awards purchase Lifetime Achievement[citation needed] 2008: Phalke Ratna Award by the Dadasaheb Phalke Academy

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