Preity Zinta shared this picture. (Picture courtesy: realpz)
Highlights
- “Yash Uncle, you’ll eternally reside in my coronary heart,” wrote Preity
- “Thanks for giving us such lovely and memorable cinema,” she wrote
- “Love you,” she added
New Delhi:
A day after Yash Chopra’s birth anniversary, actress Preity Zinta recalled her reminiscences of him, revealing in a publish that the filmmaker by no means known as her ‘Preity’ after their 2004 movie Veer-Zaara. Mr Chopra, founding father of Yash Raj Movies and father of Aditya and Uday Chopra, would have been 88 on Sunday. He died in 2012 weeks after his 80th birthday. Preity, who was directed by Yash Chopra within the cross-border story Veer-Zaara, wrote in a publish that he was her favorite director and that he has the “largest and youngest coronary heart.” Veer-Zaara co-starred Shah Rukh Khan and Rani Mukerji.
In her publish, Preity Zinta wrote: “Remembering Yash Uncle – My fav director, a person who had the largest and the youngest coronary heart. He spoilt me with meals, love and his great tales. After I labored with him for Veer Zaara he by no means known as me Preity once more. It was at all times Zaara. Yash Uncle, you’ll eternally reside in my coronary heart and hundreds of thousands of hearts. Thanks for enriching our lives by giving us such lovely, significant and memorable cinema. Love you.”
Preity Zinta additionally starred within the Yash Raj-produced movies Salaam Namaste and Jhoom Barabar Jhoom. Learn her publish right here:
On Sunday, Yash Chopra’s birthday, his son Aditya shared a observe launched on Yash Raj Movies’ social media accounts (the famously reclusive filmmaker just isn’t on social media). It was reposted by two movie fraternity members carefully related to YRF – Karan Johar and Hrithik Roshan:
His motion pictures made me love the flicks…his hand on my head gave me the energy 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
Remembering the legendary & my beloved Yash uncle as Yash Raj Movies marks 50 wonderful years of Leisure. I’ve not solely been an viewers to movies, but additionally the evolution of Indian cinema from energy to energy.
I’ve been the proud witness & a silent spectator to…1/2 https://t.co/N9SDfMmsFp— Hrithik Roshan (@iHrithik) September 27, 2020
..the expansion of my buddy Adi Chopra, his imaginative and prescient, braveness & understanding of showbiz. As we speak as I see you strike this milestone, I want to cheer for and congratulate Adi & staff @yrf! Here is to many extra years of entertaining, producing and movie making https://t.co/N9SDfMmsFp
— Hrithik Roshan (@iHrithik) September 27, 2020
Yash Chopra’s best-known work as a director embody Waqt, Daag, Kabhi Kabhie, Silsila, Chandni, Lamhe and Dil To Pagal Hai. Veer-Zaara and 2014’s Jab Tak Hai Jaan have been the final two movies he directed. 1973’s Daag was additionally the primary movie Mr Chopra produced – amongst his huge filmography as producer is the enduring Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, directed by Yash Chopra’s son Aditya.
