50 Years Of YRF: Aditya Chopra Remembers Dad Yash Chopra On His Birth Anniversary

New Delhi:

On Yash Raj Films‘ (YRF) 50th anniversary, filmmaker Aditya Chopra remembered his father Yash Chopra, who based the manufacturing home on September 27 in 1970. The date additionally marks the delivery anniversary of the legendary filmmaker, who “left the consolation and safety of his brother,” famend director-producer B R Chopra, and began his personal firm, which is now one of many high manufacturing homes of Bollywood. On the special day, Aditya Chopra, who now owns YRF, wrote a observe concerning the 50-year lengthy journey of the manufacturing home: “In 1970, my father left the safety and luxury of his brother Mr B R Chopra and fashioned his personal firm. Until then, he was a salaried worker of BR Movies and did not personal something of his personal. He didn’t know the right way to run a enterprise and didn’t even have the fundamental information of what goes into making an organization. All he had was a robust perception in his expertise and hardwork and a dream to be self-reliant. That conviction of a inventive man backing nothing however himself and his artwork, gave delivery to Yash Raj Movies.”

“In 1995, as Yash Raj Movies entered its 25th yr, my directorial debut movie Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaenge launched. The historic success of that movie gave me confidence to present wings to some loopy dangerous concepts that I had for the way forward for YRF. I needed us to realize a sure scale, in order that we may retain our independence earlier than they got here in. My father contradicted his personal conservative mindset and bravely indulged all my daring initiatives. And in a span of 10 fast years, we went from a movie manufacturing home to India’s first totally built-in unbiased movie studio…. Throughout 5 many years YRF, at its core, has been a conventional firm with deep-rooted previous world values and a conservative strategy to enterprise. However on the identical time, it is also been a daring, forward-looking firm, continuously making an attempt to push itself in embracing know-how and improvements to be forward of the curve. This excellent steadiness of conventional and fashionable is what defines Yash Raj Movies. As we speak, we enter the 50th yr of Yash Raj Movies,” added Aditya Chopra. He additionally thanked artistes, employees and folks for making YRF a hit.

Learn the total observe right here:

50 years of celebrating films, 50 years of entertaining you. On this event #AdityaChopra pens down a heartfelt observe. #YRF50pic.twitter.com/Pfj182ylvy

— Yash Raj Movies (@yrf) September 27, 2020

Filmmaker Karan Johar, in his special tweet for Yash Chopra and YRF on Sunday, thanked the legendary filmmaker and his shut pal Aditya Chopra for giving him “power” to pursue his profession in filmmaking. “His films made me love the films…his hand on my head gave me the power to face tall behind the digicam…Yash Chopra was not only a filmmaker however a bonafide establishment…a legacy so fantastically and Brilliantly taken ahead by my mentor and trainer Aditya Chopra….#YRF50,” he tweeted.

His films made me love the films…his hand on my head gave me the power to face tall behind the digicam..Yash Chopra was not only a filmmaker however a bonafide establishment…a legacy so fantastically and Brilliantly taken ahead by my mentor and trainer Aditya Chopra….#YRF50pic.twitter.com/uj4NLwpypB

— Karan Johar (@karanjohar) September 27, 2020

YRF has delivered a number of blockbusters like Kabie Kabhie, Silsila, Chandni, Lamhe, Darr, Dil Toh Pagal Hai, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Mohabbatein, Veer-Zaara, Bunty Aur Babli, Band Baaja Baaraat, Chak De India, Sultan and Battle.

Yash Chopra died in 2012. His son Uday Chopra is greatest identified for his function within the Dhoom sequence of movies.