6 Movies Directed by Yash Chopra

Ittefaq

Ittefaq

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1969-10-04

Languages:

Hindi

Countries:

India

Runtime:

104 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (358 Reviews)

Director:

Yash Chopra

Cast:

Writer:

Akhtar-Ul-Iman (dialogue)

Fullplot:

Dilip Roy is a Painter by profession and makes his living selling his paintings. He gets married to beautiful Sushma, who would like him to spend more with her than on paintings. When they get invited to their anniversary party, Sushma is all set, but Dilip must complete his painting, Sushma is displeased and snatches his paint brushes from his, an argument ensues, and Dilip grabs Sushma by the neck and chokes her to death. Sushma's sister, who witnesses this, calls the police, who arrive and arrest Dilip for murder. Dilip is produced before the courts, where he is sent for psychiatric evaluation to the care of Dr. Trivedi. However, Dilip escapes from this institute and breaks into a house with a lone married woman, Rekha, in it. Dilip decides to hole up here for sometime. Meanwhile the police have been informed, believing him a danger to others, they have launched a manhunt. Dilip decides to remain in Rekha's house for sometime until the police leave the area. What Dilip does not know that the police are already aware of his presence, and there is a dead body of the woman's husband in this very house.

Deewaar

Deewaar

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1979-05-01

Languages:

Hindi

Countries:

India

Runtime:

174 min

IMDB Ratings:

8.1 (4753 Reviews)

Director:

Yash Chopra

Cast:

Writer:

Javed Akhtar (dialogue)

Javed Akhtar (screenplay)

Javed Akhtar (story)

Salim Khan (dialogue)

Salim Khan (screenplay)

Salim Khan (story)

Fullplot:

The movie tells the story of two brothers, Vijay and Ravi Verma, who follow different career paths: Vijay is a smuggler and Ravi the policeman who is asked to hunt Vijay down. Vijay Verma (Amitabh Bachchan) and Ravi Verma (Shashi Kapoor) are the sons of a trade unionist, Anand Verma(Satyen Kappu), who was defeated and disgraced by the management of his firm using his family as bait. Unable to bear the public disgrace father deserts the family, and the sons are raised by their mother(Nirupa Roy)who brings them to Bombay City, who suffers the trials and tribulations of a poor single mother. Vijay Verma, the elder brother, grows up with an acute awareness of his father's humiliation and is victimized for his father's supposed misdeeds. In the process of fighting for his rights Vijay, who starts out as a boot polisher and becomes a dockyard worker in his youth, becomes a smuggler and a leading figure of the underworld.

Darr

Darr

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1993-12-24

Languages:

Hindi, English

Countries:

India

Runtime:

178 min

IMDB Ratings:

(13280 Reviews)

Director:

Yash Chopra

Cast:

Writer:

Honey Irani (screenplay)

Honey Irani (story)

Javed Siddiqui (dialogue)

Fullplot:

A young man is insanely obsessed over a college girl. This obsession causes the young man to take daring steps to prevent her from marrying her fiancè, a naval officer. When she finally does marry the naval officer, however, the young man's fury causes him to break all limits of decency.

Dil To Pagal Hai

Dil To Pagal Hai

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-10-31

Languages:

Hindi

Countries:

India

Runtime:

179 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (12436 Reviews)

Director:

Yash Chopra

Cast:

Writer:

Tanuja Chandra (screenplay)

Aditya Chopra (dialogue)

Pamela Chopra (screenplay)

Yash Chopra (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Rahul (Shahrukh Khan) is a dancer and the director of a successful music and dance troupe. He believes that Nisha (Karisma Kapoor), one of his dancers, is his best friend; Nisha acts like his pal, but is secretly in love with him. Nisha injures her foot and Rahul needs a new dancer. He hires Pooja (Madhuri Dixit). She and Rahul are increasingly attracted to each other, but they act as if it were not happening. Pooja, unknown to Rahul, is already engaged to Ajay (Akshay Kumar), the son of family friends who raised her when her parents were killed. A romance with another man would be scandalous, and be a disappointment to her auntie and uncle, who want to see her marry their son. She tries to keep her distance from Rahul and Rahul, puzzled by her mixed signals, does not push matters. Nisha, however, her senses sharpened by jealousy, sees it all. Rather than try to stop the affair, however, she decides to leave India for a time and let matters take their course. She truly loves Rahul, and wishes only the best for him. As preparations for the new show continue, Pooja finally tells Rahul that she is engaged to Ajay; Rahul is deeply hurt. He revises the show to reflect his new unhappiness. Nisha returns from London to view the new production and complains that it has an unhappy ending. Rahul refuses to change it; the story reflects his relationship to Pooja the way he sees it. In the end, Rahul decides to make one last effort to revive his romance with Pooja. Pooja is torn between love and duty until Ajay, who has realized what is going on, releases Pooja from her engagement. Pooja and Rahul reconcile and all ends happily.

Veer-Zaara

Veer-Zaara

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-11-12

Languages:

Hindi, Urdu, Panjabi

Countries:

India

Runtime:

192 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (28763 Reviews)

Director:

Yash Chopra

Cast:

Writer:

Aditya Chopra (dialogue)

Aditya Chopra (screenplay)

Aditya Chopra (story)

Fullplot:

Veer Pratap Singh (Shah Rukh Khan) is an officer and pilot in the Indian Air Force who one day meets a beautiful Pakistani heiress, Zaara Hayaat Khan (Preity Zinta), as she travels to a small Indian village to scatter the ashes of one of her family's loyal servants. Veer has family in the village, and while most Indians show no affection for Pakistanis, his aunt and uncle are willing to take Zaara in for the night. It isn't long before Veer finds himself falling for her; however, Veer learns that Zaara is engaged to another man, Raza (Manoj Bajpai), a cruel and humorless Pakistani. A friend of Zaara contacts Veer and tells him that Zaara wants out of her engagement and has strong feelings for him, but when he comes to her rescue, matters take a turn for the worse and Veer winds up in jail. Twenty years later, Veer is still behind bars, and finds that his case is being given a new trial, but while he has a new chance at freedom, he discovers his lawyer will be going up against a state attorney who has never lost a case.

Jab Tak Hai Jaan

Jab Tak Hai Jaan

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-11-13

Languages:

Hindi

Countries:

India

Runtime:

176 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (37472 Reviews)

Director:

Yash Chopra

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Aditya Chopra (story)

Aditya Chopra (screenplay)

Devika Bhagat (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A young immigrant falls in love with a NRI who wanted to marry any British person, not a typical brown Indian. But she falls in love with that young musician, but this love story ends with a breakup. Then that man, fed up with life with vast emotion joins Indian army bomb squad, where he flirts with death everyday. A young discovery channel journalist approaches his team to cover bomb squad story but falls in love with him.

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