Ravi Chopra (27 September 1946 – 12 November 2014) was an Indian movie producer and director. He is the son of producer and director Baldev Raj Chopra and nephew of producer and director Yash Chopra. Aditya Chopra and Uday Chopra are his cousins. He is known for directing the epic Indian television series Mahabharat.
Daughter Puja married a gentleman named Varun in 1996 and is settled in Delhi.
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Son Abhay Chopra is a associate producer and has directed short film. He was to direct a period film " Mitti" which got shelved. He is always mistaken for Vidhu Vinod Chopra's nephew actor, director Abhay Chopra aka Vikram Chopra aka Vicky Chopra.
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Cousin of Aditya Chopra and Uday Chopra.
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Son Kapil Chopra is a assistant director. He was to turn actor with the film " Kohinoor" but it got shelved.
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Ravi Chopra wanted to cast Rajesh Khanna in the lead role for Aaj Ki Awaz and even narrated the script to Kaka in 1983. Kaka liked it but Kaka did not have dates until the end of 1985 and so asked Ravi to either wait for until early 1986 or to make the film with some other actor. Rajesh later did Awam directed by Ravi's father B.R.Chopra in 1987, which was a super-hit.
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Ravi Chopra was associate producer for TV movies like Teri Meri Kahani (1982), Dharti Aakash (1982), Bahadur Shah Zafar(1986) - all of which were successful commercial ventures.
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Ravi Chopra was heavily hurt that his pet project Burning Train, the story of which he had written and also directed, did not do well at box-office at the time of its release in-spite of it getting critical acclaims and garnering positive reviews. The film is today recognized as a classic masterpiece.
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Ravi Chopra incurred debts after 2008 due to failure of films he produced like Babul, Bhootnath both with Amitabh Bachchan being commercial failures.
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Ravi Chopra was lauded by critics for backing films, as an executive producer, based on different themes like Cooking with Stella (2009) and Heaven on Earth (2008).
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Ravi Chopra's debut film as a director was Zameer, which was a box-office disaster and garnered negative reviews at the time of its release.
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In 1984 Ravi's father B.R.Chopra was already 70 years old but was active as an independent director and it was in this year that Ravi Chopra gained national fame for his directorial skills in Aaj Ki Awaz.
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Ravi Chopra has been associate producer for films produced by his father Baldev Chopra like Karm, The Burning Train, Insaf Ka Tarazu , Agni Pareeksha, Nikaah, Mazdoor, Aaj Ki Awaz , Kirayadar, Awam.
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Ravi Chopra has been assistant director to his father B.R.Chopra in films like Dastaan (1972) and Dhund (1973) and Ravi has also assisted Yash Chopra for Ittefaq in 1969 which was produced by B.R.Chopra.
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Ravi Chopra's career's successful period was from 1978-1992 as the movies produced by him in capacity of associate/executive/ main producer and directed by him both were successful in this period, after which he took 10 year break from direction.But in 1999 tasted success again with East-side as producer and then as a director with Bagbhan in 2003.
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Ravi Chopra's success as an associate producer began with blockbuster Insaf Ka Tarazu and followed by super-hits like Nikaah, Awam, Eastside.
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As a Director Ravi Chopra tasted box-office success with films like Tumhari Kassam, Mazdoor, Aaj Ki Awaz, Dahleez, Pratigyabadh and Baghban and TV series Mahabhrata.
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