Vidhu Vinod Chopra
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Vidhu Vinod Chopra Net Worth

Vidhu Vinod Chopra is an Indian film producer, director and screenwriter who made his directorial debut with Murder At Monkey Hill in 1976, which won him the National Award. He then went on to make his first mainstream Hindi film called Sazaaye Maut (Death Row) in 1981, which was followed by critically and commercially acclaimed films such as Khamosh, Parinda, 1942: A Love Story, Kareeb, Mission Kashmir, Munna Bhai M.B.B.S., Lage Raho Munna Bhai, Parineeta, Eklavya: The Royal Guard, 3 Idiots, Ferrari Ki Sawaari, and Broken Horses. Chopra has won national and international recognition for several of his films and is one of the leading film production houses in India.
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Who is it? Writer, Producer, Director
Birth Day September 05, 1952
Age 70 YEARS OLD
Occupation Writer, Producer, Director, Editor, Lyricist, Actor
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 (m. 1990)
Website vinodchoprafilms

💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M

Biography/Timeline

1979

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.

2008

In a scriptwriters conference held in 2008 Abhijat Joshi, who co-wrote Munna Bhai MBBS with Rajkumar Hirani, stated the following as the commandments Vidhu Vinod Chopra follows while writing screenplays. Though Chopra claims these to be Ingmar Bergmen's commandments, Joshi was unable to find any such reference in his later researches.

2012

In the 2012 Sight and Sound Polls, held every 10 years to select the greatest films of all time, contemporary Directors were asked to select 10 films of their choice. Chopra picked the following films:

2013

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, and 3 Idiots. His Hollywood film "Broken horses" was received poorly by critics and audiences with a rotten tomatoes rating of 22% and was declared as a box office disaster.

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