Yash Raj Chopra is considered to be the Godfather of Indian Cinema Industry. Under his flagship banner , Yashraj Films, he holds the record number of Bollywood Films directed and produced. He is considered among one of the greatest filmmakers in the history of Hindi cinema
Yash Chopra was born on 27 September 1932 in Lahore to a Punjabi family. He was  brought up in the Lahore house of his second brother, B.R Chopra, then a film journalist.He later moved to Ludhiana in Punjab (in India) after the partition. He was originally ought to pursuit a career in engineering. However, his passion for film- making led him to travel to Bombay.
1950-1970
In Bombay,  Chopra began his career as an assistant director to I.S. Johar and his elder brother, B.R. Chopra. He made his directorial debut with Dhool Ka Phool in 1959, a melodrama about illegitimacy and followed it with the hard-hitting social drama Dharmputra (1961). Encouraged by the success of both films, the Chopra brothers made several more movies together during the late fifties and sixties. Chopra then rose to prominence after the commercially and critically successful drama, Waqt (1965), which pioneered the concept of multi-starters in Bollywood.
1970-1990
In 1970 Chopra married Pamela Singh and together they have two sons Aditya and Uday, born in 1971 and 1973. respectively. Aditya is also a film director and producer and holds the position of vice-chairman and general manager of Yash Raj Films while Uday is an assistant director turned actor who made his acting debut in 2000 in his brother’s film Mohabbatein.
In 1973, Chopra founded his own production company, Yash Raj Films, and launched it with Daag: A Poem of Love (1973), a successful melodrama about a polygamous man. His success continued in the seventies, with some of Indian cinema’s most successful and iconic films, including the action thriller Deewar (1975) which established Amitabh Bachchan as the “angry young man” of Bollywood, the romantic drama Kabhi Kabhie(1976) and Trishul (1978). The eighties marked a professional setbacks in Chopra’s career as several films he directed and produced in that period failed to leave a mark at the Indian box office, notably Silsila (1981), Mashaal (1984) and Vijay (1988). However, in 1989, Chopra directed the commercially and critically successful cult film Chandni which became instrumental in ending the era of violence in Bollywood and bringing back music into Hindi films.
1990-2012
Chopra then directed and produced the cult classic Lamhe in 1991. Considered by critics and Chopra himself as his best work to date. The film was critically acclaimed and became one of the biggest Bollywood hits in the overseas market. Chopra followed it with the box-office hit and trend setter Darr (1993). Starring the then-débutant Shahrukh Khan, it showed a sympathetic look at obsessive love and defied the image of the conventional hero. Since then, Chopra directed three more romantic films, all starring Khan; Dil To Pagal Hai (1997), Veer-Zaara (2004) and Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012) before he announced his retirement from directing in 2012. Chopra is chairman and founder of both the motion picture production and distribution company Yash Raj Films which ranks as India’s biggest production company as of 2006 and the Yash Raj Studios.
In 2004, the Hollywood Reporter placed Yash Raj Films at number 27 in a survey of the “Biggest Film Distribution Houses” in the world; it was India’s biggest production company as of 2006. Yash Chopra and Aditya Chopra topped the power list of India as according to the February 2005 edition of Filmfare magazine