Yash Raj Films (abbreviated as YRF) is an Indian entertainment company, established by filmmaker Yash Chopra in 1970, that produces and distributes motion pictures. [1] [2] As of 2022, the company has produced over 80 Hindi films and one Tamil film. YRF started a film distribution business in 1997; [3] in addition to distributing their own productions, the company has handled the domestic and/or international distribution of over 50 films from other companies. The most frequent collaborations of the company have been with the actors Rani Mukerji, Rishi Kapoor, Shah Rukh Khan, Anushka Sharma, Katrina Kaif, and Saif Ali Khan.
YRF's first release came in 1973 with the Chopra-directed Daag , a drama about bigamy, starring Rajesh Khanna, Raakhee and Sharmila Tagore. [4] The company had four more releases in the 1970s, including the ensemble romantic drama Kabhi Kabhie and the action film Kaala Patthar , both of which starred Amitabh Bachchan and Raakhee. [5] YRF's sole commercial success in the 1980s was the Sridevi-starring romantic musical Chandni . [5] The year 1995 marked the directorial debut of Chopra's elder son Aditya Chopra with the highly successful romantic drama Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge . [6] [7] Starring Shahrukh Khan and Kajol, the film has the longest theatrical run in Indian cinema history. [8] Other successful releases of the 1990s were Darr (1993) and Dil To Pagal Hai (1997), both starring Khan. [9]
Since the 2000s, YRF produced a larger number of films. In addition to directorial ventures from Yash and Aditya, the company launched several new directors, including Sanjay Gadhvi, Vijay Krishna Acharya, Kunal Kohli, Siddharth Anand, Shaad Ali, and Ali Abbas Zafar. [10] Some of the company's top-grossing films in the 2000s include Gadhvi's action thrillers Dhoom (2004) and Dhoom 2 (2006), Kohli's romantic thriller Fanaa (2006), Ali's crime comedy Bunty Aur Babli (2005), Yash's period romantic drama Veer-Zaara (2004), and Aditya Chopra's dramas Mohabbatein (2000) and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008). [11] Beginning in 2008, the company introduced a number of new actors such as Anushka Sharma, Ranveer Singh, Parineeti Chopra, Arjun Kapoor, Bhumi Pednekar, and Vaani Kapoor. [12]
YRF's highest-grossing films came in the 2010s with the YRF Spy Universe action thrillers Ek Tha Tiger (2012), Tiger Zinda Hai (2017) and War (2019), the action sequel Dhoom 3 (2013), and the sports drama Sultan (2016). All five films rank among the highest-grossing Hindi films of all time. [13] Following a series of commercial failures in the early 2020s, [14] the company produced the fourth instalment in the YRF Spy Universe, Pathaan (2023), starring Shah Rukh Khan and directed by Siddharth Anand, which earned over ₹10 billion (US$120 million) to rank as the company's highest-grossing release. [13]
† | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
Title | Year | Director | Cast | Synopsis | Ref. |
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Daag | 1973 | Yash Chopra | Rajesh Khanna, Sharmila Tagore, Raakhee | A man is presumed dead, but his wife discovers that he is alive, and married to another woman. | [4] |
Kabhi Kabhie | 1976 | Yash Chopra | Amitabh Bachchan, Raakhee, Shashi Kapoor, Waheeda Rehman, Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh | An aspiring poet and a young woman fall in love, but they both marry different people. 20 years later, their children reunite them. | [16] |
Doosra Aadmi | 1977 | Ramesh Talwar | Raakhee, Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh, Shashi Kapoor | An accomplished architect falls obsessively in love with a younger married man who reminds her of her deceased boyfriend. | [17] |
Noorie | 1979 | Manmohan Krishna | Farooq Sheikh, Poonam Dhillon | Noorie is a young woman engaged to Yusuf. She commits suicide after being raped, and Yusuf tries to avenge her death. | [18] |
Kaala Patthar | 1979 | Yash Chopra | Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Shatrughan Sinha, Raakhee, Parveen Babi, Neetu Singh, Sanjeev Kumar | A sea captain is court-martialled for cowardice, after which he starts working as a coal miner. With help from two co-workers, he fights for better rights for his fellow workers. | [19] [20] |
Nakhuda | 1981 | Dilip Naik | Raj Kiran, Swaroop Sampat, Kulbhushan Kharbanda | Shaikhoo Dada is the mentor of an ambitious young man, Ravi. When Ravi marries an industrialist's daughter, his father-in-law plants seeds of discord between him and Dada. | [21] |
Silsila | 1981 | Yash Chopra | Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Rekha, Sanjeev Kumar | Amit and Chandni are lovers, but the death of Amit's brother forces him to marry his brother's pregnant girlfriend. Later, Amit rekindles his affair with a now married Chandni. | [22] |
Sawaal | 1982 | Ramesh Talwar | Sanjeev Kumar, Poonam Dhillon, Shashi Kapoor, Randhir Kapoor, Waheeda Rehman | A powerful criminal's life is altered when his daughter falls in love with a police officer, and his son rebels against his empire. | [23] |
Mashaal | 1984 | Yash Chopra | Dilip Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Anil Kapoor, Rati Agnihotri | An honest journalist exposes a powerful drug lord but ends up losing his career. He wants to exact revenge but a vagabond he had once rescued tries to stop him from a life of crime. | [5] [24] |
Faasle | 1985 | Yash Chopra | Sunil Dutt, Rekha, Farooq Sheikh, Farah, Deepti Naval, Raj Kiran, Rohan Kapoor | A widower raises his children while continuing a relationship with a younger woman. When his daughter decides to marry her lover, he disapproves of the match. | [25] |
Vijay | 1988 | Yash Chopra | Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini, Rishi Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Meenakshi Sheshadri | Two friends turn foes when they discover that they are first cousins, and that their destinies were manipulated by their evil grandfather. | [26] |
Chandni | 1989 | Yash Chopra | Sridevi, Rishi Kapoor, Vinod Khanna, Waheeda Rehman | When Chandni's husband is paralysed in an accident, he separates from her so she can live a normal life. Heartbroken, she finds support in the home of a middle-aged widower. | [27] |
Lamhe | 1991 | Yash Chopra | Anil Kapoor, Sridevi, Waheeda Rehman, Anupam Kher | Viren falls in love with an older woman, but she marries another man. When her daughter grows up, she falls in love with Viren. | [28] |
Aaina | 1993 | Deepak Sareen | Jackie Shroff, Amrita Singh, Juhi Chawla | Two sisters, Roma and Reema, fall in love with Ravi. Ravi decides to wed Roma but she abandons him. Ravi marries Reema instead, and a jealous Roma returns to claim Ravi. | [29] |
Darr | 1993 | Yash Chopra | Sunny Deol, Juhi Chawla, Shah Rukh Khan | A newly-wed woman is stalked by an unknown man who claims to be in love with her. With the help of her husband, she tries to escape from the harassment of the obsessed lover. | [30] |
Yeh Dillagi | 1994 | Naresh Malhotra | Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan, Kajol | Two brothers of contrasting personalities fall in love with their chauffeur's daughter, a professional model, much to the chagrin of their domineering mother. | [31] |
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge | 1995 | Aditya Chopra | Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol | A teenage girl falls in love with a flirtatious boy on a trip across Europe, but is forced by her father to marry against her wishes. | [32] |
Dil To Pagal Hai | 1997 | Yash Chopra | Shah Rukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Karisma Kapoor, Akshay Kumar | A stage dancer develops a one-sided attraction towards her director, Rahul. However, Rahul loves another dancer who is engaged to her childhood friend. | [33] |
Mohabbatein | 2000 | Aditya Chopra | Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai, Uday Chopra, Shamita Shetty, Jugal Hansraj, Kim Sharma, Jimmy Shergill, Preeti Jhangiani | A music teacher encourages his students to rebel against their authoritarian school principal to exact revenge for the suicide of his girlfriend. | [34] |
Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai | 2002 | Sanjay Gadhvi | Uday Chopra, Sanjana, Jimmy Shergill, Bipasha Basu | A man decides to break the engagement of his childhood friend after realising that he is in love with her. | [35] |
Mujhse Dosti Karoge! | 2002 | Kunal Kohli | Rani Mukherji, Hrithik Roshan, Kareena Kapoor | Raj and Tina fall in love while corresponding through e-mails. After Raj proposes to Tina, he realises that the e-mails were written by Tina's friend, Pooja. | [36] |
Saathiya | 2002 | Shaad Ali | Rani Mukerji, Vivek Oberoi | A couple face a series of troubles and misunderstandings after they elope and marry. | [37] |
Hum Tum | 2004 | Kunal Kohli | Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukerji | A man and a woman casually encounter each other at various stages of their lives and eventually fall in love after the death of the woman’s husband. | [38] |
Dhoom | 2004 | Sanjay Gadhvi | Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham, Uday Chopra, Esha Deol, Rimi Sen | A police officer and a motorbike dealer team up to stop a group of bank robbers. | [39] |
Veer-Zaara | 2004 | Yash Chopra | Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Rani Mukerji | An Indian Air Force pilot falls in love with a Pakistani woman. Misunderstandings lead to his imprisonment for 22 years and a Pakistani lawyer fights for his rights. | [40] |
Bunty Aur Babli | 2005 | Shaad Ali | Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Rani Mukerji | Two villagers run away from home and become con artists, under the alias of Bunty and Babli. An alcoholic policeman tries to catch them. | [41] |
Salaam Namaste | 2005 | Siddharth Anand | Saif Ali Khan, Preity Zinta | A couple cohabiting in Melbourne face trouble after the woman gets pregnant and the man refuses to take responsibility of the child. | [42] |
Neal 'n' Nikki | 2005 | Arjun Sablok | Uday Chopra, Tanishaa Mukerji | Before getting married, Neal wants to sleep with 21 women, but his plans are foiled by a free-spirited girl Nikki. | [43] |
Fanaa | 2006 | Kunal Kohli | Aamir Khan, Kajol | Zooni, a blind girl falls in love with Rehan, an undercover-terrorist who impregnates and abandons her. Several years later, with her eyesight restored, Zooni tends to a wounded Rehan, not realising his true identity. | [44] |
Dhoom 2 | 2006 | Sanjay Gadhvi | Hrithik Roshan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Bipasha Basu, Uday Chopra | A team of police officers try to catch a proficient jewel thief. They use a petty thief to seduce him, but her loyalties to the police are questioned. | [45] |
Kabul Express | 2006 | Kabir Khan | John Abraham, Arshad Warsi, Salman Shahid, Linda Arsenio | Two Indian journalists travel for work to Afghanistan. They unite with an American journalist but are held hostage by a Taliban militant who wishes to cross the border to Pakistan. | [46] |
Ta Ra Rum Pum | 2007 | Siddharth Anand | Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukerji | A car racing champion loses his career after an accident. His wife and two children face many hardships before he makes a comeback. | [47] |
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom | 2007 | Shaad Ali | Abhishek Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Bobby Deol, Lara Dutta, Amitabh Bachchan | Two strangers at a train station lie about their respective partners, while secretly harbouring feelings for one another. They both hire other people to be their partners for a dance competition. | [48] |
Chak De! India | 2007 | Shimit Amin | Shah Rukh Khan | A disgraced hockey player tries to redeem himself by coaching a group of underachievers in the India women's national field hockey team to win the world cup. | [49] |
Laaga Chunari Mein Daag | 2007 | Pradeep Sarkar | Jaya Bachchan, Rani Mukerji, Konkona Sen Sharma, Kunal Kapoor, Abhishek Bachchan | To fend for her family, a young woman travels to the city to find work. Difficulties lead to her becoming a female escort. | [50] |
Aaja Nachle | 2007 | Anil Mehta | Madhuri Dixit, Konkona Sen Sharma, Akshaye Khanna, Kunal Kapoor | A choreographer living in New York returns to her hometown in India to save a dance theatre from being demolished by a local politician. | [51] |
Tashan | 2008 | Vijay Krishna Acharya | Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Anil Kapoor | A woman steals money from her criminal boss, who hires a disgruntled ex-lover and a gangster to catch her. | [52] |
Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic [b] | 2008 | Kunal Kohli | Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukerji | An angel comes to Earth to help four troubled kids after a judge orders a loner to take custody of them after he accidentally kills their parents. | [54] |
Bachna Ae Haseeno | 2008 | Siddharth Anand | Ranbir Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Minissha Lamba, Deepika Padukone | A womaniser sets out to seek forgiveness from two women he deserted in the past after having his heart broken by another. | [55] |
Roadside Romeo [c] | 2008 | Jugal Hansraj | Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor | A dog is deserted on the streets by the family he used to live with. He befriends four stray dogs and fights an evil neighbourhood dog. | [57] |
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi | 2008 | Aditya Chopra | Shah Rukh Khan, Anushka Sharma | An under-confident middle-aged man tries to woo his newly-wed bride by masquerading as a boisterous younger man. | [58] |
New York | 2009 | Kabir Khan | John Abraham, Katrina Kaif, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Irrfan Khan | Post-9/11, a Muslim student in New York is wrongly imprisoned. He becomes a terrorist to exact revenge on the government, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation uses his friend to spy on his activities. | [59] |
Dil Bole Hadippa! | 2009 | Anurag Singh | Rani Mukerji, Shahid Kapoor | A woman interested in pursuing a career in cricket masquerades as a man to play the game. | [60] |
Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year | 2009 | Shimit Amin | Ranbir Kapoor, Gauahar Khan, Shazahn Padamsee | A disillusioned salesman of a computer service company begins his own sales firm with the help of other disgruntled employees. | [61] |
Pyaar Impossible | 2010 | Jugal Hansraj | Uday Chopra, Priyanka Chopra, Dino Morea | A software engineer is forced to work as a nanny for the daughter of a divorced businesswoman he used have a crush on in college. | [62] |
Badmaash Company | 2010 | Parmeet Sethi | Shahid Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Meiyang Chang, Vir Das | Four underachieving friends begin a scam business enterprise to considerable success, but misunderstandings arise within the group. | [63] |
Lafangey Parindey | 2010 | Pradeep Sarkar | Neil Nitin Mukesh, Deepika Padukone | A blind girl trains to win a skating competition, and is helped in her quest by a street fighter who was responsible for her loss of sight. | [64] |
Band Baaja Baaraat | 2010 | Maneesh Sharma | Ranveer Singh, Anushka Sharma | An ambitious girl and a street-smart boy begin a wedding-planning business, but a one-night stand turns them into rivals. | [65] |
Mere Brother Ki Dulhan | 2011 | Ali Abbas Zafar | Katrina Kaif, Imran Khan, Ali Zafar | A man arranges for the marriage of his brother to a loquacious woman, but falls in love with her instead. | [66] |
Ladies vs Ricky Bahl | 2011 | Maneesh Sharma | Ranveer Singh, Anushka Sharma, Parineeti Chopra, Dipannita Sharma, Aditi Sharma | Three women, who have been robbed and deceived by a con man, hire a con woman whom he loves to teach him a lesson. | [67] |
Ishaqzaade | 2012 | Habib Faisal | Parineeti Chopra, Arjun Kapoor | A Hindu man and a Muslim woman from warring political families engage in a passionate affair with each other. | [68] |
Ek Tha Tiger | 2012 | Kabir Khan | Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif | An Indian RAW agent is on a mission to recover confidential information from a scientist, during which he falls in love with a mysterious Pakistani ISI agent. | [69] |
Jab Tak Hai Jaan | 2012 | Yash Chopra | Shah Rukh Khan, Katrina Kaif, Anushka Sharma | Following a car accident, a woman makes a promise to God to break-up with her boyfriend in exchange for his life. Heartbroken, he defies death by working as a bomb-disposal expert. | [70] |
Aurangzeb | 2013 | Atul Sabharwal | Arjun Kapoor, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Sashaa Agha, Rishi Kapoor, Jackie Shroff | A police officer, who is the doppelganger of a criminal's son, is forced by his family to go undercover in the criminal's home. | [71] |
Shuddh Desi Romance | 2013 | Maneesh Sharma | Sushant Singh Rajput, Parineeti Chopra, Vaani Kapoor | Raghu runs away from his arranged wedding to Tara and begins cohabiting with Gayatri. On the day of his marriage to her, Gayatri runs out on him too. | [72] |
Dhoom 3 | 2013 | Vijay Krishna Acharya | Aamir Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Katrina Kaif, Uday Chopra, Jackie Shroff | A circus boy, trained in circus theatrics, vows to take down a corrupt Chicago-based bank after his father's suicide. Two police officers from Mumbai try to catch them. | [73] |
Gunday | 2014 | Ali Abbas Zafar | Ranveer Singh, Arjun Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Irrfan Khan | Two refugees from Bangladesh emerge as the most powerful coal bandits in Calcutta. Misunderstandings arise when they both fall in love with the same cabaret dancer. | [74] |
Aaha Kalyanam [d] | 2014 | A. Gokul Krishna | Nani, Vaani Kapoor | An ambitious girl and a street-smart boy begin a wedding-planning business, but a one-night stand turns them into rivals. (Remake of Band Baaja Baaraat) | [76] |
Bewakoofiyaan | 2014 | Nupur Asthana | Ayushmann Khurrana, Sonam Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor | A man fired from his job during the Indian recession must convince his rich girlfriend's father to let her marry him. | [77] |
Titli [e] | 2014 | Kanu Behl | Shashank Arora, Shivani Raghuvanshi, Ranvir Shorey, Amit Sial | The youngest son of a criminal family and his reluctant bride manipulate and ultimately help each other to escape the family. | [80] |
Mardaani | 2014 | Pradeep Sarkar | Rani Mukerji, Tahir Raj Bhasin | Following the disappearance of a teenage girl, a policewoman uncovers secrets of a high-profile sex trafficking racket in India. | [81] |
Daawat-e-Ishq | 2014 | Habib Faisal | Aditya Roy Kapur, Parineeti Chopra | A young woman and her father trap a man under the dowry law in India to fund her trip to America. | [82] |
Kill Dil | 2014 | Shaad Ali | Ranveer Singh, Parineeti Chopra, Ali Zafar, Govinda | Two orphans are trained to be assassins by a gangster. Trouble arises when one of them falls in love and decides to leave the business. | [83] |
Dum Laga Ke Haisha | 2015 | Sharat Katariya | Ayushmann Khurrana, Bhumi Pednekar | An unambitious man is forced into marrying an aspiring schoolteacher. Initially hesitant to accept his overweight bride, the couple eventuality grow closer. | [84] |
Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! [e] | 2015 | Dibakar Banerjee | Sushant Singh Rajput, Swastika Mukherjee | During World War II, Byomkesh Bakshy, a young detective in Calcutta, becomes embroiled in a murder mystery. | [85] |
Fan | 2016 | Maneesh Sharma | Shah Rukh Khan | A star's doppelganger fan turns into a dangerous foe when the former refuses the latter's advances. | [86] |
Sultan | 2016 | Ali Abbas Zafar | Salman Khan, Anushka Sharma | A middle-aged former wrestler with a tragic past overcomes his insecurities to return to the sport. | [87] |
Befikre | 2016 | Aditya Chopra | Ranveer Singh, Vaani Kapoor | An impulsive couple in Paris engage in an affair while promising not to fall in love with each other. | [88] |
Meri Pyaari Bindu | 2017 | Akshay Roy | Ayushmann Khurrana, Parineeti Chopra | A successful writer, stuck with writer's block, returns to his roots to write an old-fashioned love story. | [89] |
Qaidi Band | 2017 | Habib Faisal | Aadar Jain, Anya Singh | Seven innocent under-trials give a band performance in the prison to secure their acquittal. | [90] |
Tiger Zinda Hai | 2017 | Ali Abbas Zafar | Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif | Tiger and his wife, Zoya, unite to rescue Indian and Pakistani nurses held hostage by an Islamic terror group. | [91] |
Hichki | 2018 | Siddharth P. Malhotra | Rani Mukerji | An aspiring teacher suffering from Tourette syndrome must prove herself by educating a group of underprivileged students. | [92] |
Sui Dhaaga | 2018 | Sharat Katariya | Anushka Sharma, Varun Dhawan | An unemployed small town couple start their own garment business. | [93] |
Thugs of Hindostan | 2018 | Vijay Krishna Acharya | Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Katrina Kaif, Fatima Sana Shaikh | In 1795, a band of thugs aspire to free Hindostan from the rule of the East India Company. Alarmed, the British send a con-artist to infiltrate and counter the threat. | [94] |
War | 2019 | Siddharth Anand | Hrithik Roshan, Tiger Shroff, Vaani Kapoor | An Indian soldier is assigned to eliminate his mentor, a former soldier gone rogue. | [95] |
Mardaani 2 | 2019 | Gopi Puthran | Rani Mukerji, Vishal Jethwa | A policewoman goes up against a young rapist and serial killer. | [96] |
Bunty Aur Babli 2 | 2021 | Varun V. Sharma | Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukerji, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Sharvari Wagh | Two scam artists are forced out of retirement when their calling card begins appearing across India. | [97] |
Jayeshbhai Jordaar | 2022 | Divyang Thakkar | Ranveer Singh, Shalini Pandey | Jayesh, a diffident Gujarati man, flees with his wife to save their daughter from foeticide. | [98] |
Samrat Prithviraj | 2022 | Chandraprakash Dwivedi | Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt, Sonu Sood, Manushi Chhillar | Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan of the Chauhan dynasty, clashes with Muhammad Ghori, a ruler from the Ghurid dynasty who led the Islamic Conquest of Hindustan. | [98] |
Shamshera | 2022 | Karan Malhotra | Ranbir Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Vaani Kapoor | Set in the 1800s, a dacoit tribe fight for independence against British rule. | [98] |
Pathaan | 2023 | Siddharth Anand | Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, John Abraham | An exiled RAW agent must prevent a disgruntled terrorist from releasing a deadly synthetic virus. | [99] |
The Great Indian Family | 2023 | Vijay Krishna Acharya | Vicky Kaushal, Manushi Chhillar | A religious Hindu man has a crisis when he finds out that he is Muslim by birth. | [100] |
Tiger 3 | 2023 | Maneesh Sharma | Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Emraan Hashmi | After being framed as traitors by a revenge-seeking terrorist, Tiger and Zoya go on a life-threatening crusade to clear their names. | [101] |
War 2† | 2025 | Ayan Mukerji | Hrithik Roshan, N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Kiara Advani | TBA | [102] |
Alpha† | 2025 | Shiv Rawail | Alia Bhatt, Sharvari, Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol | TBA | [103] |
The following films from other banners were distributed, in domestic and/or overseas markets, by the company: [104]
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, also known by the initialism DDLJ, is a 1995 Indian Hindi-language musical romance film written and directed by Aditya Chopra in his directorial debut and produced by his father Yash Chopra. Released on 20 October 1995, the film stars Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol as Raj and Simran, two young non-resident Indians, who fall in love during a vacation through Europe with their friends. Raj tries to win over Simran's family so the couple can marry, but Simran's father has long since promised her hand to his friend's son. The film was shot in India, London, and Switzerland, from September 1994 to August 1995.
Mohabbatein is a 2000 Indian Hindi-language musical romantic drama film written and directed by Aditya Chopra and produced by Yash Chopra under his banner Yash Raj Films. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai, and newcomers Uday Chopra, Shamita Shetty, Jugal Hansraj, Kim Sharma, Jimmy Sheirgill, and Preeti Jhangiani. It narrates the story of Narayan, the strict principal of Gurukul college whose daughter Megha, commits suicide after he opposes her relationship with Raj, a music teacher at the college. The story follows Raj aiding with three Gurukul students and their love interests to rebel against Narayan's intolerance of love.
Yash Raj Chopra 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. For his contributions to film, the Government of India honoured him with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2001, and the Padma Bhushan in 2005. In 2006, British Academy of Film and Television Arts presented him with a lifetime membership, making him the first Indian to receive the honour.
Uday Raj Chopra is an Indian actor and producer. He is the son of filmmaker Yash Chopra. He made his acting debut in the 2000 musical romantic drama Mohabbatein and featured in several other films including Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai (2002), Dhoom (2004), Dhoom 2 (2006) and Dhoom 3 (2013).
Aditya Chopra is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter and studio executive who works in Hindi cinema. He is the Chairman of India's multi-national film, media, and entertainment conglomerate Yash Raj Films (YRF). The films he has produced make him one of the highest grossing Indian film producers of all time.
Yash Raj Films (YRF) is an Indian film production and distribution company founded by filmmaker Yash Chopra in 1970. Since 2012, it has been led by his son Aditya Chopra. The company mainly produces and distributes Hindi films.
Dhoom is an Indian action film series produced by Yash Raj Films. The series revolves around ACP Jai Dixit, and his sidekick Ali Akbar Fateh Khan, on missions to capture professional thieves. It is the sixth largest Indian film franchise in terms of box-office revenue.
Dhoom 3, stylised as Dhoom: 3, is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film written & directed by Vijay Krishna Acharya and produced by Aditya Chopra, who co-wrote the story. The film, which is the third installment of Dhoom series, stars Aamir Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Uday Chopra, Jackie Shroff and Katrina Kaif.
Ek Tha Tiger is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed and co-written by Kabir Khan. Produced by Aditya Chopra under Yash Raj Films, it is the first installment in the YRF Spy Universe. It stars Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Ranvir Shorey, Roshan Seth, Girish Karnad, and Gavie Chahal. In the film, RAW agent Tiger (Khan) is tasked with recovering information before it is gained by Pakistan, but is sidetracked after falling in love with Zoya (Kaif).
Son of Sardaar is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by Ashwni Dhir. The film stars Ajay Devgn, Sanjay Dutt, Sonakshi Sinha and Juhi Chawla. Based on S. S. Rajamouli's 2010 Telugu film Maryada Ramanna, it was released on 13 November 2012.
Parineeti Chopra is an Indian actress and singer who primarily works in Hindi films. Chopra is a recipient of several accolades, including a Filmfare and a National Film Award. Chopra has appeared in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list since 2013.
Saqib Saleem Qureshi is an Indian actor and model who works in the Hindi film industry. He worked as a model before beginning his film career. After moving to Mumbai, Qureshi appeared in several advertisements. While doing television commercials, he grew interest in films and started auditioning for film roles, eventually signing a two-film deal with the Y-Films, a subsidiary of the Yash Raj Films (YRF), as an actor.
Jab Tak Hai Jaan is the soundtrack album, composed by A. R. Rahman, to the 2012 Hindi film of the same name, directed by Yash Chopra that stars Shah Rukh Khan, Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma. The film was produced by Aditya Chopra under his banner Yash Raj Films. The album has nine tracks and was released on 10 October 2012 on the firm's official record label YRF Music.
Jab Tak Hai Jaan, abbreviated as JTHJ, is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film directed by Yash Chopra and written and produced by his son Aditya Chopra under their banner Yash Raj Films. The film stars Shah Rukh Khan, Katrina Kaif, and Anushka Sharma.
Ali Abbas Zafar is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is known for directing Mere Brother Ki Dulhan (2011), Gunday (2014), Sultan (2016), Tiger Zinda Hai (2017) and Bharat (2019).
Hindi film actress Rani Mukerji made her screen debut in Biyer Phool (1996), a Bengali film directed by her father Ram Mukherjee. Her first leading role was that of a rape victim in the 1996 social drama Raja Ki Aayegi Baaraat. In 1998 she received wider recognition for her role alongside Aamir Khan in the action film Ghulam, and had her breakthrough as the romantic interest of Shah Rukh Khan's character in the romantic drama Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. The latter earned Mukerji her first Filmfare Award in the Best Supporting Actress category. She followed this by playing the leading lady in several films, including Hello Brother (1999) and Nayak: The Real Hero (2001), none of which helped propel her career forward.
Vaani Kapoor is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films. After completing a bachelor's degree in tourism studies, she made her acting debut with Yash Raj Films' romantic comedy film Shuddh Desi Romance (2013), for which she received the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.
Bewakoofiyaan (transl. Stupidities) is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film directed by Nupur Asthana, written by Habib Faisal and produced by Aditya Chopra under the banner of Yash Raj Films. The film stars Ayushmann Khurrana, Sonam Kapoor and Rishi Kapoor. It was released on 14 March 2014 to mixed reviews, and emerged a commercial failure.
Tiger Zinda Hai is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film written and directed by Ali Abbas Zafar based on a story by Zafar and Neelesh Misra. Produced by Aditya Chopra under Yash Raj Films, it serves as a sequel to Ek Tha Tiger (2012) and is the second instalment in the YRF Spy Universe, and stars Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif reprising their roles from the predecessor. Almost eight years since the events of Ek Tha Tiger, Tiger and Zoya find themselves pulled out of hiding to save nurses held hostage by the ISC, a terrorist organisation based in Iraq.
YRF Spy Universe is an Indian media franchise and shared universe centered on a series of spy action films, which feature various fictional RAW agents. The franchise also includes comic books, graphic novels and video games. The films are produced and distributed by Yash Raj Films.