| Who is it? | Writer, Producer, Director |
| Birth Day | September 05, 1952 |
| Age | 70 YEARS OLD |
| Occupation | Writer, Producer, Director, Editor, Lyricist, Actor |
| Notable work | Parinda, 1942: A Love Story, Eklavya: The Royal Guard, "Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.,Lage Raho Munna Bhai", 3 Idiots |
| Spouse(s) | Renu Saluja (divorced) Anupama Chopra (m. 1990) |
| Website | vinodchoprafilms |
This was followed by a short documentary highlighting the plight of India's destitute children, called An Encounter with Faces, which was nominated for an Academy Award in the Documentary Short Subject category in 1979. It also won the Grand Prix at the Tampere Film Festival in 1980.
In a scriptwriters conference held in 2008 Abhijat Joshi, who co-wrote Munna Bhai MBBS with Rajkumar Hirani, stated the following as the commandments Vidhu Vinod Chopra follows while writing screenplays. Though Chopra claims these to be Ingmar Bergmen's commandments, Joshi was unable to find any such reference in his later researches.
In the 2012 Sight and Sound Polls, held every 10 years to select the greatest films of all time, contemporary Directors were asked to select 10 films of their choice. Chopra picked the following films:
His first feature film, shot in black-and-white, was Sazaa-E-Maut (Death Penalty) – a thriller made on a shoestring budget with then-unknown actor Naseeruddin Shah and Editor Renu Saluja, who were his fellow students at FTII, Pune. His critically acclaimed films include Parinda, 1942: A Love Story, Mission Kashmir, the Munna Bhai series, Parineeta, and 3 Idiots. His Hollywood film "Broken horses" was received poorly by critics and audiences with a rotten tomatoes rating of 22% and was declared as a box office disaster.
