Early Life
Chopra was born on 27 September 1932 in Lahore, British India (now in Pakistan), to a Punjabi family. The youngest of eight children, the oldest of whom was almost 30 years his senior, he was largely brought up in the Lahore house of his second brother, Baldev Raj Chopra, then a film journalist. Chopra went to Jalandhar in 1945 to continue his education, studied at Doaba College, Jalandhar and later moved to Ludhiana in Punjab (in India) after the partition. He originally sought to pursue a career in engineering. However, his passion for film-making led him to travel to Bombay (now Mumbai) where he initially worked as an assistant director to I. S. Johar, and then for his director-producer brother, Baldev Raj Chopra.
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