Vidhu Vinod Chopra

Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Vidhu Vinod Chopra
	Chopra at the DVD Launch of PK , 2015
Born	5 September 1952 (age 72); Jammu and Kashmir
Notable work	Parinda, 1942: A Love Story, Eklavya: The Royal Guard, "Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.,Lage Raho Munna Bhai", 3 Idiots
Spouse(s)	Renu Saluja (divorced) ; Anupama Chopra (m1990)
Website	vinodchoprafilms.com

Vidhu Vinod Chopra (born September 5, 1952) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer. Parinda, 1942: A Love Story, Eklavya: The Royal Guard, Munna Bhai film series (Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. and Lage Raho Munna Bhai), 3 Idiots are some of his highly popular films. He is the founder of Vinod Chopra Films.

Early life

Chopra grew up in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.^[2] His father was D. N. Chopra and veteran filmmaker Ramanand Sagar was his half-brother.^[3] He is of Punjabi descent and his parents are originally from Peshawar.^[4] His love of Hindi cinema and support of his family encouraged him to study film direction. For this purpose, he went to Pune and studied film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India.

Career

Chopra's first student short, Murder at Monkey Hill, won the National Film Award for Best Short Experimental Film and the Guru Dutt Memorial Award for Best Student Film.^[5]

This was followed by a short documentary highlighting the plight of India's destitute children, called An Encounter with Faces, which was nominated for an Academy Award in the Documentary Short Subject category in 1979. It also won the Grand Prix at the Tampere Film Festival in 1980.^[6]

Films

His first feature film, shot in black-and-white, was Sazaa-E-Maut (Death Penalty) – a thriller made on a shoestring budget with then-unknown actor Naseeruddin Shah and editor Renu Saluja, who were his fellow students at FTII, Pune. His critically acclaimed films include Parinda, 1942: A Love Story, Mission Kashmir, the Munna Bhai series, Parineeta, Eklavya: The Royal Guard, and 3 Idiots.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role(s)
2016	Wazir	Producer, writer, editor
2015	Broken Horses	Producer, director, writer
2014	PK	Producer
2012	Ferrari Ki Sawaari	Producer, writer
2009	3 Idiots	Producer, Screenplay Associate
2007	Eklavya: The Royal Guard	Producer, director, writer
2006	Lage Raho Munna Bhai	Producer, Screenplay Associate, lyricist
2005	Parineeta	Producer, Story and Dialogue Writer, Supervising Editor
2003	Munna Bhai MBBS	Producer, writer
2000	Mission Kashmir	Producer, director, writer
1998	Kareeb	Producer, director, writer
1994	1942: A Love Story	Producer, director, writer
1989	Parinda	Producer, director, writer
1985	Khamosh	Producer, director, writer
1983	Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro	Actor, Production Controller
1981	Sazaye Maut	Director, writer
1978	An Encounter with Faces	Director (Documentary)
1976	Murder At Monkey Hill	Director (Diploma film), writer, Actor (Akhtar)

Awards and nominations

Stardust Awards

2009: Winner, Readers' Choice Award for 3 Idiots

FICCI Awards

2009: Winner, Most Successful Film of the Year for 3 Idiots

Zee Cine Awards

2007: Winner, Best Screenplay Award for Lage Raho Munna Bhai
2005: Winner, Best Dialogue Award for Parineeta
2005: Winner, Best Director Award for Mission Kashmir

Tampere International Short Film Festival

1980: Winner, Grand Prix for An Encounter with Faces

Star Screen Awards

2006: Winner, Best Film for Lage Raho Munnabhai
2006: Nominated, Best Screenplay for Lage Raho Munna Bhai
2009: Winner, Star Screen Award for Best Film, 3 Idiots
2009: Winner, Star Screen Award for Best Screenplay, 3 Idiots

Footnotes

External links

[1] ttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/Vidhu-Vinod-Chopra-I-was-arrogant-volatile-and-violent-living-with-Anu-has-changed-me/articleshow/46850792.cms

[2] ttp://movies.ndtv.com/bollywood/vidhu-vinod-chopra-recalls-troubled-time-in-kashmir-327139

[3] "In Bollywood, everyone's related!". The Times of India. Retrieved 3 February 2016.

[4] ttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/Vidhu-Vinod-Chopra-I-was-arrogant-volatile-and-violent-living-with-Anu-has-changed-me/articleshow/46850792.cms

[5] Murder At Monkey Hill (35mm / B&W / 35 min)

[6] IMDb

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v t e Filmfare Award for Best Director
1954–1970	Bimal Roy (1954) Bimal Roy (1955) Bimal Roy (1956) V. Shantaram (1957) Mehboob Khan (1958) Bimal Roy (1959) Bimal Roy (1960) Bimal Roy (1961) B. R. Chopra (1962) Abrar Alvi (1963) Bimal Roy (1964) Raj Kapoor (1965) Yash Chopra (1966) Vijay Anand (1967) Manoj Kumar (1968) Ramanand Sagar (1969) Yash Chopra (1970)
1971–1990	Asit Sen (1971) Raj Kapoor (1972) Sohanlal Kanwar (1973) Yash Chopra (1974) Manoj Kumar (1975) Yash Chopra (1976) Gulzar (1977) Basu Chatterjee (1978) Satyajit Ray (1979) Shyam Benegal (1980) Govind Nihalani (1981) Muzaffar Ali (1982) Raj Kapoor (1983) Govind Nihalani (1984) Sai Paranjpye (1985) Raj Kapoor (1986) Mansoor Khan (1989) Vidhu Vinod Chopra (1990)
1991–2010	Rajkumar Santoshi (1991) Subhash Ghai (1992) Mukul S. Anand (1993) Shekhar Kapur (1994) Sooraj Barjatya (1995) Aditya Chopra (1996) Rajkumar Santoshi (1997) J. P. Dutta (1998) Karan Johar (1999) Sanjay Leela Bhansali (2000) Rakesh Roshan (2001) Ashutosh Gowariker (2002) Sanjay Leela Bhansali (2003) Rakesh Roshan (2004) Kunal Kohli (2005) Sanjay Leela Bhansali (2006) Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra (2007) Aamir Khan (2008) Ashutosh Gowariker (2009) Rajkumar Hirani (2010)
2011-present	Karan Johar (2011) Zoya Akhtar (2012) Sujoy Ghosh (2013) Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra (2014) Vikas Bahl (2015) Sanjay Leela Bhansali (2016) Nitesh Tiwari (2017) Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari (2018) Meghna Gulzar (2019) Zoya Akhtar (2020) Om Raut (2021) Vishnuvardhan (2022) Sanjay Leela Bhansali (2023) Vidhu Vinod Chopra (2024)

v t e Filmfare Award for Best Story
1955–1970	Mukhram Sharma (1955) Rajinder Singh Bedi (1956) Amiya Chakrabarty (1957) Akhtar Mirza (1958) Mukhram Sharma (1959) Subodh Ghosh (1960) Ruby Sen (1961) C. V. Sridhar (1962) K. P. Kottarakara (1963) Jarasandha (1964) Ban Bhatt (1965) Akhtar Mirza (1966) R. K. Narayan (1967) Manoj Kumar (1968) Sachin Bhowmick (1969) Vasant Shankar Kanetkar (1970)
1971–1990	Chandrakant Kakodkar (1971) Hrishikesh Mukherjee (1972) Basu Bhattacharya (1973) Salim–Javed (1974) Kaifi Azmi, Ismat Chughtai (1975) Salim–Javed (1976) Balaichand Mukherjee (1977) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1978) Dinesh Thakur (1979) Shanker Shesh (1980) Vijay Tendulkar (1981) Chetan Anand (1982) Samaresh Basu (1983) S. D. Palwalker (1984) Mahesh Bhatt (1985) Aleem Masroor (1986) no award (1987) no award (1988) Subodh Ghosh (1989) K. Viswanath (1990)
1991–2010	Rajkumar Santoshi (1991 ) Honey Irani (1992) no award given (1993) Sutanu Gupta (1994) K. K. Singh (1995) Ram Gopal Varma (1996) Gulzar (1997) Kamal Haasan (1998) Mahesh Bhatt (1999) Vinay Shukla (2000) Honey Irani (2001) Ashutosh Gowariker (2002) Jaideep Sahni (2003) Nagesh Kukunoor (2004) Aditya Chopra (2005) Sudhir Mishra, Ruchi Narain & Shiv Kumar Subramaniam (2006 ) Rajkumar Hirani & Vidhu Vinod Chopra (2007) Amole Gupte (2008) Abhishek Kapoor (2009) Abhijat Joshi & Rajkumar Hirani (2010)
2011–present	Anurag Kashyap & Vikramaditya Motwane (2011) Sanjay Chauhan (2012) Juhi Chaturvedi (2013) Subhash Kapoor (2014) Rajat Kapoor (2015) V. Vijayendra Prasad (2016) Shakun Batra (2017) Amit V. Masurkar (2018) Anubhav Sinha (2019) Anubhav Sinha & Gaurav Solanki (2020) Anubhav Sinha & Mrunmayee Lagoo Waikul (2021)

v t e Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay
1969–1980	Nabendu Ghosh (1969) Hrishikesh Mukherjee (1970) Vijay Anand (1971) Basu Chatterjee (1972) Arvind Mukherjee (1973) Salim-Javed (1974) Shama Zaidi & Kaifi Azmi (1975) Salim-Javed (1976) Basu Chatterjee (1977) Lekh Tandon, Vrajendra Kaur & Madhusudan Kalekar (1978) Kamleshwar (1979) Girish Karnad & B. V. Karanth (1980)
1981–2000	Vijay Tendulkar (1981) K. Balachander (1982) Salim-Javed (1983) Vijay Tendulkar (1984) Mrinal Sen (1985) Goutam Ghose & Partha Banerjee (1986) no award (1987) no award (1988) Nasir Hussain (1989) Shiv Kumar Subramaniam (1990) Basu Chatterjee (1991) Tapan Sinha (1992) Aziz Mirza & Manoj Lalwani (1993) Robin Bhatt, Javed Siddiqui & Akash Khurana (1994) Sooraj Barjatya (1995) Aditya Chopra (1996) Rajkumar Santoshi (1997) Subhash Ghai (1998) Karan Johar (1999) John Matthew Matthan (2000)
2001–present	Honey Irani & Ravi Kapoor (2001) Farhan Akhtar (2002) Mani Ratnam (2003) Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra & Lajan Joseph (2004) Mani Ratnam (2005) Nina Arora & Manoj Tyagi (2006) Jaideep Sahni (2007) Anurag Basu (2008) Yogendra Vinayak Joshi & Upendra Sidhaye (2009) Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra & Abhijat Joshi (2010) Anurag Kashyap & Vikramaditya Motwane (2011) Akshat Verma (2012) Sanjay Chauhan & Tigmanshu Dhulia (2013) Chetan Bhagat, Abhishek Kapoor, Supratik Sen & Pubali Chaudhari (2014) Rajkumar Hirani, Abhijat Joshi (2015) Juhi Chaturvedi (2016) Shakun Batra & Ayesha Devitre (2017) Shubhashish Bhutiani (2018) Sriram Raghavan, Arijit Biswas, Pooja Ladha Surti, Yogesh Chandekar & Hemanth M. Rao (2019) Zoya Akhtar & Reema Kagti (2020) Rohena Gera (2021)

v t e Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Directed	Murder at Monkey Hill (1976) An Encounter with Faces (1978) Sazaye Maut (1981) Khamosh (1985) Parinda (1989) 1942: A Love Story (1994) Kareeb (1998) Mission Kashmir (2000) Eklavya: The Royal Guard (2007) Broken Horses (2015) Shikara (2020) 12th Fail (2023)
Produced only	Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. (2003) Parineeta (2005) Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006) 3 Idiots (2009) Ferrari Ki Sawaari (2012) PK (2014) Wazir (2016) Sanju (2018) Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (2019)

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