Yash Chopra: Producing results

October 08, 2009 Star-maker, studio mogul and widely regarded as one of India's most successful filmmakers, Yash Chopra's 40-odd films have been instrumental in shaping the iconography of mainstream Hindi cinema even before the term Bollywood was invented. No wonder the official profile supplied by Yash Raj Films describes the studio's chairman as follows: "Take the producing acumen of a Louis B. Mayer or a David O. Selznick and combine it with the sublime directorial skills of a Frank Capra or a Michael Curtiz and you get some measure of Yash Chopra, the "Baadshah" (Emperor) of blockbuster dreams for more than five decades." In terms of its content, YRF could best be compared to Walt Disney given that Chopra's unique grasp of Indian family values remains the banner's driving force to this day.

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