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Aditya Chopra

Aditya Chopra is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter and distributor. His work as a director includes Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), Mohabbatein (2000), and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008).He is also the current chairman of India's 45 year-old multi-national film, media and entertainment conglomerate, Yash Raj Films (YRF). Chopra has written and produced a number of critically acclaimed and commercially successful films under the banner like Saathiya (2002), Veer-Zaara (2004), Hum Tum (2004), Bunty Aur Babli (2005), Fanaa (2006), Bachna Ae Haseeno (2008), New York (2009), Band Baaja Baaraat (2010), Ishaqzaade (2012), Ek Tha Tiger (2012), Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012), Shuddh Desi Romance (2013), The Dhoom Trilogy (2004, 2006 & 2013) and Gunday (2014). Chopra has also tried to break away from typecast and forayed into production of off-beat films with unique subjects in projects like Kabul Express (2006), Chak De India (2007), Rocket Singh (2009), Aurangzeb (2013), Mardaani (2014), Titli (2014) (Chopra's entry into nu-Experimental Cinema), Detective Byomkesh Bakshi (2014) and Paani (2015) (Chopra's entry into Mainstream Hollywood), that do not necessarily fit into the realms of Masala films. Moreover, in the year 2014, Chopra became the first Indian producer to move towards a true film studio model through Independent projects helmed by producers, writers and directors under the YRF banner. Chopra thus forms an integral part of the brat-pack that entered Indian Cinema in the break-out of the late 1990s along with Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Karan Johar, Ashutosh Gowarikar and Farhan Akhtar.,As of November 2014, Chopra has directed the longest running theatrical film of World Cinema, produced the highest grossing film of Indian Cinema, and has theatrically distributed the second highest grossing film of Indian cinema. Chopra has also produced six other films that have accumulated worldwide gross earnings of more than INR 200 crore (the most for an Indian film producer). Apart from emerging as the most equitable brand in Indian Entertainment, his company has earned the status of a movie mogul in the Indian market, through the years of its existence. YRF is often credited for breaking away from the small business model that was historically used by the Indian film industry and introducing a rigid hub and spoke model by establishing distribution networks across the globe. With a majority of its films (especially produced by Chopra) being part of the highest grossing Indian films of all time, the company is estimated to be worth 7px4000 crore (US$630 million) (as of second quarter of Fiscal 2013) by multiple NSE and BSE analysts, thereby making it the biggest and most successful film production company in the history of Indian Cinema. Chopra has however remained extremely media-shy and has battled constant reports of an alleged social anxiety disorder and/or APD, throughout his two-decade career.