Vidhu Vinod Chopra

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Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Vidhu Vinod Chopra at International Film Festival of India 2010 in Goa
Born	(1952-09-05) September 5, 1952 Srinagar, Kashmir, India
Spouse(s)	Renu Saluja (Divorced) Shabnam Sukhdev (Divorced) Anupama Chopra
Website
vinodchoprafilms.com

Vidhu Vinod Chopra 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) and 3 Idiots are some of his highly popular films. He is the founder of Vinod Chopra Films

Early life

Born in Kabul, Chopra grew up in Srinagar, India. His father was D. N. Chopra and veteran filmmaker Ramanand Sagar was his half-brother. His love of Hindi cinema and support of his family encouraged him to study film direction. Since there was no college for film-related courses in North India, 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.^[1]

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.^[2]

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. 3 idiots became India's biggest worldwide box office performer in the history of Indian Cinema, grossing over Rs 300 crores.^[3]

Filmography

Year	Film	Role(s)
In Development	Chitthiyan	Producer
In Development	Munnabhai Chale Delhi	Producer
In Development	Taalismaan	Producer, Writer
2013	Broken Horses	Producer, Director, Writer
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
1993	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

Filmfare Awards

2009: Winner, Filmfare Best Film Award for 3 Idiots
2009: Winner, Filmfare Best Screenplay Award for 3 Idiots
2006: Winner, Filmfare Best Story Award for Lage Raho Munna Bhai
2005: Nominated, Filmfare Best Movie Award for Parineeta
2004: Winner, Filmfare Best Screenplay Award for Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.
2001: Nominated, Filmfare Best Director Award for Mission Kashmir
2001: Nominated, Filmfare Best Movie Award for Mission Kashmir
1995: Nominated, Filmfare Best Director Award for 1942: A Love Story
1990: Winner, Filmfare Best Director Award for Parinda

National Awards

1977: Best Short Experimental Film for Murder At Monkey Hill
2004: Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment for Munnabhai M.B.B.S.
2006: Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director for Parineeta (as producer)
2007: Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment for Lage Raho Munnabhai
2007: Best Screenplay for Lage Raho Munnabhai
2010: Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment for 3 Idiots

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

IIFA Awards

2007: Winner, IIFA Best Screenplay Award for Lage Raho Munna Bhai
2001: Nominated, IIFA Best Director Award for Mission Kashmir
2010: Winner , IIFA Best Screenplay Award for 3 idiots

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

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 Behl and Vijay Maurya (2011) Sujoy Ghosh (2012)

Adapted	Gopal Krishan Pai and Girish Kasaravalli (2009) Anant Mahadevan and Sanjay Pawar (2010) Avinash Deshpande Nigdi (2011) Bhavesh Mandalia and Umesh Shukla (2012)

Dialogues	Pandiraj (2009) Sanjay Pawar (2010) Girish Kulkarni (2011) Anjali Menon (2012)

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

2011-2030

Complete list
(1954–1970)
(1971-1990)
(1991-2010)
(2011-2030)

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) Samresh Basu (1983) S. D. Palwalker (1984) Mahesh Bhatt (1985) Aleem Masroor (1986) no award (1987) no award (1988) Subodh Ghosh (1989) Kasinadhuni 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)

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 Tendular (1981) K. Balachander (1982) Salim-Javed (1983) Vijay Tendular (1984) Mrinal Sen (1985) Gautam 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 R. 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)

v t e 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)

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)

Authority control	VIAF: 5171595 ISNI: 0000 0000 6301 3176 BNF: cb14553554n

Persondata
Name	Chopra, Vidhu Vinod
Alternative names
Short description	Indian film director
Date of birth	5 September 1952
Place of birth	Srinagar, Kashmir, India
Date of death
Place of death

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