Yash Chopra, prominent Indian filmmaker, passed away this Sunday evening in a hospital in Bombay.
That single sentence is easy to read but it’s not easy to digest! The impact of this one fact is immense! Yash ji was not your normal run-of-the-mill film director - he was a creative genius and a bold trend-setter.
Some
of his great films included Deewar, Kabhie Kabhie, Trishul, Veer-Zaara,
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom,....the list is long. So many of these are in my
all-time favourites list. He made more than 50 Hindi films and most of them were extremely successful. I think his genius was in his style, he could portray any subject in a larger than life manner and still connect with the common man. He was a true merchant of dreams.
Yash ji sold many dreams to the Indian audience worldwide over his 50 years long career. I don’t want to type out the list of filmfare awards and the honours he won in country and internationally, the internet is full of those facts. I didn’t know they had named a railway station after him.
All I want to do is pay my tribute to the great dreammaker and tell you that he was a great inspiration, definitely to me, and probably to a huge number of filmmakers all over the world.
He will be greatly missed!
