Vidhu Vinod Chopra

Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Chopra at the DVD Launch of PK , 2015
Born	(1952-09-05) 5 September 1952 Jammu and Kashmir
Ethnicity	Punjabi^[1]
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

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vidhu Vinod Chopra.

Vidhu Vinod Chopra at the Internet Movie Database
Official Website
Interview

National Film Award for Best Screenplay

1967–1980

S. L. Puram Sadanandan (1967)
Pandit Anand Kumar (1968)
Puttanna Kanagal (1969)
Satyajit Ray (1970)
Tapan Sinha (1971)
Gulzar (1972)
Mrinal Sen and Ashish Burman (1973)
Satyajit Ray (1974)
No Award (1975)
Vijay Tendulkar (1976)
Satyadev Dubey, Shyam Benegal, Girish Karnad (1977)
T. S. Ranga and T. S. Nagabharana (1978)
Sai Paranjpye (1979)
Mrinal Sen (1980)

1981–2000

2001–present

Neelakanta (2001) Aparna Sen (2002) Goutam Ghose (2003) Manoj Tyagi and Nina Arora (2004) Prakash Jha, Manoj Tyagi and Shridhar Raghavan (2005) Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra (2006) Feroz Abbas Khan (2007) Sachin Kundalkar (2008)

Original	P. F. Mathews and Harikrishna (2009) Vetrimaaran (2010) Nitish Tiwary, Vikas Bahl and Vijay Maurya (2011) Sujoy Ghosh (2012) P. Sheshadri (2013) Srijit Mukherji (2014) Juhi Chaturvedi and Himanshu Sharma (2015)

Adapted	Gopal Krishan Pai and Girish Kasaravalli (2009) Anant Mahadevan and Sanjay Pawar (2010) Avinash Deshpande Nigdi (2011) Bhavesh Mandalia and Umesh Shukla (2012) Panchakshari (2013) Joshy Mangalath (2014) Vishal Bhardwaj (2015)

Dialogues	Pandiraj (2009) Sanjay Pawar (2010) Girish Kulkarni (2011) Anjali Menon (2012) Sumitra Bhave (2013) Vishal Bhardwaj (2014) Juhi Chaturvedi and Himanshu Sharma (2015)

Filmfare Award for Best Director

1954-1960

Bimal Roy (1954)
Bimal Roy (1955)
Bimal Roy (1956)
V. Shantaram (1957)
Mehboob Khan (1958)
Bimal Roy (1959)
Bimal Roy (1960)

1961-1980

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)
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)

1981-2000

2001-present

Complete list
(1954–1970)
(1971-1990)
(1991-2010)
(2011-2020)

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) Samresh Basu (1983) S. D. Palwalker (1984) Mahesh Bhatt (1985) Aleem Masroor (1986) no award (1987) no award (1988) Subodh Ghosh (1989) Kasinathuni 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 & Shivkumar 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) K. V. Vijayendra Prasad (2016)

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 Tendular (1981) K. Balachander (1982) Salim-Javed (1983) Vijay Tendular (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)

Vidhu Vinod Chopra films

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)

Produced	Khamosh (1985) Parinda (1989) 1942: A Love Story (1994) Kareeb (1998) Mission Kashmir (2000) Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. (2003) Parineeta (2005) Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006) 3 Idiots (2009) Ferrari Ki Sawaari (2012) PK (2014) Wazir (2015)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 5171595 LCCN: nr98003883 ISNI: 0000 0000 6301 3176 SUDOC: 098502557 BNF: cb14553554n (data)

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