Uday Chopra

Uday Chopra

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  • Name:
  • Uday Chopra
  • Born:
  • January 5, 1973
  • Father:
  • Yash Chopra
  • Mother:
  • Pamela Chopra

Uday Chopra Biography

 

Uday Chopra is a Bollywood actor, producer and assistant director of Bollywood. He is the younger son of director Yash Chopra. His elder brother is also a director who has directed the movie Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge. He has worked as assistant director for many productions of Yash Chopra including Darr, Parampara, Yeh Dillagi, DDLJ and Dil to pagal hai. He is the producer of the hit movie ‘Yeh Dillagi’ starring Saif Ali Khan, Kajol and Akshay Kumar in the pivot roles. As an actor he has been most successful with Dhoom series and has played pivot roles of the series in a comic way. His other successful movies as an actor includes Mohabbatein and Meri yaar ki shaadi hai and has done special appearance as Day 6 announcer in Kal ho na ho.

 

Though he had a late entry in Bollywood as an actor, he has been assisting his dad Yash Chopra behind the cameras for 7 years since 1993. Thus he has become a part of greatest Blockbusters of Shah Rukh Khan – Darr, Dilwale Dulhaniya le jayenge and Dil to pagal hai. He debut as a supporting actor of Shah Rukh Khan’s movie Mohabbatein in the year 2000. Shamita Shetty, the younger sister of Shilpa Shetty debut Bollywood as his heroine in this movie. This movie consisting of big stars like Big B, SRK and Aiswarya Rai and small actors was successful at box office. He was nominated for debut hero in Filmfare that year.

 

Next year Mere yaar ke shadi hai was released. The movie was successful at box office and perhaps this is the only movie that success credits fully go to Uday Chopra. So, everyone thought that Uday Chopra has made a big entry in Bollywood through these movies. He was also featured in the movie, ‘Mujhse dosthi karoge’, a multistar cast movie consisting of Hritik Roshan, Kareena Kapoor and Rani Mukherji. But luck didn’t favour him later. Except the Dhoom series, he was not able to achieve the success he dreamt of.  Flop movies list include Supari, Pyar impossible, Charas and Neal n Nikki. Actually he has done only a few movies in Bollywood. He even decided to quit acting. But he is returning back with Dhoom 3, where Aamir Khan plays the villain role.

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Updated: November 11, 2013

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