Dhaka, Oct 21 Veteran Indian filmmaker Yash Chopra, regarded as the country's king of celluloid romance, passed away in Mumbai on Sunday, about a month after celebrating his 80th birth anniversary.
A spokesperson for Yash Raj Films said Chopra was suffering from dengue and had been admitted at a Mumbai hospital where he breathed his last.
Merely 10 days ago, on Oct 11, Chopra along with his wife Pamela attended a party arranged to celebrate the 70th birthday of Amitabh Bachchan.
Chopra rose to prominence in Indian film industry making romantic dramas considered the most memorable ones of Bollywood's. He proved his worth as a maker of intensely emotional and tragic movies, many of which became box-office blockbusters.
Born in 1932 in Lahore, now in Pakistan, the film-maker came to Mumbai with only 200 rupees in his pocket, and made it up to his hope to become a film director whose career had spanned five decades, according to Chopra himself.
He disclosed these facts at his latest birth day party taking the film industry by surprise.
As he recalled his hard days standing by his side was none other than Shah Rukh Khan, who starred in Chopra's last film, 'Jab Tak Hai Jaan'.
"I think I've had enough, Shah Rukh," Chopra had replied when Khan asked him about his next project, reported IBNLive.com.
"I have always lived according to what my heart tells me," he said. "I won't make any film after Jab Tak Hai Jaan."
Chopra has made some of Indian cinema's most memorable films -- such as 'Deewar', 'Kabhi Kabhie', 'Silsila' and 'Chandni'.
His flamboyant style of film-making, movies filmed in exotic locales and mellifluous music became a hallmark, endearing him to filmgoers, IBNLive.com commented.
His successes led him to establish Yash Raj Films, one of Bollywood's biggest production houses, producing at least three movies a year.
In November, his film studio announced its foray into Hollywood, signing on actors such as Nicole Kidman and Jason Bateman for its overseas productions, IBNLive.com said in its report.
Chopra also produced Indian cinema's longest-running blockbuster, 'Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge' (1995), which marked the debut of his son Aditya as director.
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