FILM DIRECTOR

Yash Chopra

1932 - 2012

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Yash Raj Chopra (27 September 1932 – 21 October 2012) was an Indian film director and film producer who worked in Hindi cinema. The founding chairman of the film production and distribution company Yash Raj Films, Chopra was the recipient of several awards, including 6 National Film Awards and 8 Filmfare Awards. He is considered among the best Hindi filmmakers, particularly known and admired for his romantic films with strong female leads. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yash Chopra has received more than 5,742,139 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Yash Chopra is the 862nd most popular film director (down from 853rd in 2019), the 66th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 59th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Pakistani Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Yash Chopras by language

Over the past year Yash Chopra has had the most page views in the with 656,804 views, followed by Hindi (13,513), and Arabic (9,828). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (162.48%), Maithili (68.56%), and Chinese (54.04%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Yash Chopra ranks 862 out of 2,041. Before him are Gregory Hoblit, Jan Němec, Krsto Papić, J. A. Bayona, Ronny Yu, and Jean Becker. After him are Shinobu Hashimoto, Eugeniusz Bodo, Wolfgang Becker, Kim Ki-young, Eli Roth, and Jeannot Szwarc.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Yash Chopra ranks 273. Before him are Vladimir Yengibaryan, László Sárosi, John Drew Barrymore, Charles W. Misner, Robert Rozhdestvensky, and Paulinho de Almeida. After him are Jerry Unser Jr., Medea Abrahamyan, Kalyan Singh, Sanpei Shirato, Princess Margarita of Baden, and Olga Fikotová. Among people deceased in 2012, Yash Chopra ranks 236. Before him are William Windom, R. G. Armstrong, Marie Colvin, André Simon, Dara Singh, and John Christopher. After him are Sergey Kapitsa, Hector Bianciotti, James Farentino, Moshe Sanbar, Mike Wallace, and Susanne Lothar.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Yash Chopra ranks 66 out of 217. Before him are Farooq Leghari (1940), Manoj Kumar (1937), Aafia Siddiqui (1972), Gulzar (1934), Duleep Singh (1838), and Malala Yousafzai (1997). After him are Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry (1904), Prithviraj Kapoor (1906), Zafarullah Khan Jamali (1944), Vinod Khanna (1946), Shahid Khan (1950), and Raaj Kumar (1926).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Pakistan

Among film directors born in Pakistan, Yash Chopra ranks 2. Before him are Gulzar (1934). After him are Ramanand Sagar (1917), Shekhar Kapur (1945), Ramesh Sippy (1947), Chetan Anand (1915), Govind Nihalani (1940), and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (1978).

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Filmography

Jab Tak Hai Jaan
Director
A bomb disposal expert becomes bitter and lonely and is unable to fall in love until he is forced to deal with his past.
Nov 13o 20127.1 / 10
Dil To Pagal Hai
Director
Rahul, the director of a successful dance troupe, considers Nisha his best friend, though secretly, she is madly in love with him. He then falls for Pooja, who is engaged to Ajay.
Oct 30o 19976.844 / 10
Veer-Zaara
Director
Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh, a pilot in the Indian air force, rescues the stranded Zaara, a woman from Pakistan, following a bus accident, and their lives are forever bound.
Nov 12o 20047.409 / 10