Baldev Raj Chopra

Baldev Raj Chopra ( usually short: BR Chopra, born April 22, 1914 in Ludhiana, Punjab, † November 5, 2008 in Mumbai) was an Indian film director and producer.

Life

Baldev Raj Chopra came in 1947 during the partition of India from Lahore to Mumbai. His directorial debut was Afsana (1951 ) with Ashok Kumar in a double role. Direct this first work was so successful that it established Chopra as a fixture in the Hindi film. In 1956 he founded his own production company BR Film. The films produced by BR Chopra were commercially very successful, as Naya Daur (1957 ), Sadhna (1958), Dhool Ka Phool (1959 ), Kanoon (1960, Filmfare Award / Best Director ), Gumrah (1963 ), Waqt (1965 ), Humraaz (1967), Ittefaq (1969). Turned it were part of himself but also of other directors.

From the 1980s he worked also for television. His most significant television production was the series Mahabharat ( 1988-90 ), consisting of 94 parts of 45 minutes each.

BR Chopra was in 1963 a member of the Berlinale jury. He was honored for his outstanding contribution to the Indian film in 1999 with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award. In 2001 he received the Padma Bhushan in 2004 and the Filmfare Award / life's work.

His younger brother was the director and producer Yash Chopra.