Uday Chopra
Director – YRF, CEO –YRF Entertainment

Actor. Producer. Technophile.
Taking cinema beyond Indian shores.

 

Uday-Chopra4 Uday Chopra, late Yash Chopra’s younger son, started his film career by assisting Yash Chopra in the films LAMHE (1991), PARAMPARA (1993), DARR (1993) and DIL TO PAGAL HAI (1997).

He also assisted his elder brother Aditya Chopra in his debut film, DILWALE DULHANIA LE JAYENGE (1995), which became one of the largest grossers in the year of its release.

Uday Chopra made a successful debut as an actor, under his elder brother’s direction in MOHABBATEIN (2000), which was one of the top grossing films of the year.

He also played the lead in MERE YAAR KI SHAADI HAI (2002) and a cameo in MUJHSE DOSTI KAROGE (2002). He has acted in films produced by other banners as well, like SUPARI (2003) and CHARAS (2004).

Uday Chopra (as Ali) won the nation over in DHOOM (2004), which was one of the highest grossing Hindi films of the year.

He also played a lead character in NEAL ‘N’ NIKKI (2005). After the super success of DHOOM, its sequel DHOOM:2 (2006) also had a stellar performance by the youngest scion of the Chopra family. Uday also played the lead role in PYAAR IMPOSSIBLE (2010) which was also written and produced by him for YRF. He also starred in DHOOM:3 next to Aamir Khan in 2013.

Uday Chopra launched ‘Yomics’ - YRF Comics in 2012 in an endeavour to bring the comic art form of entertainment back and use the lure of films to help excite and entice the first lot of consumers. Under this umbrella four major comic series were created including DHOOM, HUM TUM, EK THA TIGER and a new character-based series - ‘Daya Prochu’ which is an anagram of Uday Chopra.

Uday Chopra

He’s currently the CEO of YRF Entertainment, a Hollywood based production company focused on telling content-driven, compelling stories through the streaming format for global audiences. Also a producer of English language films, YRF Entertainment has developed and will produce SEDUCING INGRID BERGMAN, a blacklist script written by Arash Amel about the torrid love affair between Ingrid Bergman and photographer Robert Capa. At its inception, YRF Entertainment financed and produced THE LONGEST WEEK, starring Jason Bateman and Olivia Wilde. This was followed by Cannes-opener GRACE OF MONACO, starring Nicole Kidman.

On 14th February 2023, Netflix globally launched iconic film-maker Yash Chopra & Yash Raj Films’ rich cultural legacy of 50 years in a new docu-series titled 'THE ROMANTICS’. The star-studded, four-part docu-series features 35 leading voices of the Hindi film industry and dives into the history of Bollywood through the lens of YRF’s impact in making Bollywood a household name globally. THE ROMANTICS has been produced by YRF Entertainment, directed by Smriti Mundhra and Uday Chopra is the Executive Producer.

Other releases from YRF Entertainment include the series THE RAILWAY MEN (18 November 2023), the film MAHARAJ (21 June 2024), the series MANDALA MURDERS (scheduled to release in 2024), and the film VIJAY 69 (scheduled to release in 2024).

As An Actor

Dhoom:3

20 December 2013

Pyaar Impossible

08 January 2010

Dhoom:2

24 November 2006

Neal 'n' Nikki

09 December 2005

Dhoom

27 August 2004

Charas

07 May 2004

Supari

20 June 2003

Mujhse Dosti Karoge

09 August 2002

Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai

07 June 2002

Mohabbatein

27 October 2000