Prem Chopra
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Chopra at Navin Nischol's funeral
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| Born |
23 September 1935 Lahore, Punjab, British India (now in Punjab, Pakistan) |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Spouse(s) | Uma Chopra (m.1969) |
| Children | Prerna Chopra Punita Chopra Rakita Chopra |
| Parent(s) | Ranbirlal Chopra (father) Rooprani Chopra (mother) |
| Relatives |
Prem Nath (Brother-in-law) Rajendra Nath (Brother-in-law) Narendra Nath (Brother-in-law) Krishna Kapoor (Sister-in-law) Sharman Joshi (Son-in-law) Vikas Bhalla ( Son-in-law) |
| Website | www |
Prem Chopra (born 23 September 1935) is an Indian actor in Hindi and Punjabi films. He has acted in 320 films over a span of over 50 years. He has a soft-spoken diction despite being a villain in most films. His 19 films with him being the antagonist and Rajesh Khanna in lead role remain popular with audience and critics.
Prem Chopra, the third of six children of Ranbirlal and Rooprani Chopra, a Punjabi Hindu family, was born on 23 September 1935, in Lahore. After the partition of India, his family moved to Shimla, where he was brought up. His father desired that Prem be a doctor or an Indian Administrative Services officer.
Prem Chopra completed his schooling and college from Shimla after his father, who was a government servant, got transferred there. He graduated from Punjab University. He took part in college dramatics enthusiastically. At his father's insistence, he completed his graduation and then went to Mumbai. Soon after he made his debut film, his mother was detected with mouth cancer and she died, leaving his then nine-year-old sister Anju to be looked after by his father and his four other brothers. The brothers had given warning to their respective wives that only if their sister is happy would they be happy and Prem considers his sister as his first daughter. Noted writer-director Lekh Tandon brought the proposal of Uma for marriage to Prem. Uma was the younger sister of the siblings Krishna Kapoor, Prem Nath and Rajendranath. The couple have three daughters, Rakita, Punita and Prerna Chopra. Rakita is married to film publicity designer Rahul Nanda. Punita owns a pre-school called Wind Chimes in Bandra, suburban Mumbai, and is married to singer and television actor Vikas Bhalla. Prerna is married to Bollywood actor Sharman Joshi. He resides in a duplex apartment in Pali Hill, Bandra in Mumbai.
His relationship with two of his four brothers got estranged in the late 1980s. Prem Chopra had bought a bungalow in 1980 in Delhi, which was jointly owned by him and his father, and his father and his one brother used to stay there. Prem had got his brother a job in Delhi and made him stay at the bungalow. But his father, a day before his death, was made to sign a will favouring one of his brothers, taking away Prem's rights in the bungalow. Later an income tax raid happened in that same house and his brother said in the raid that Prem had given them the bungalow and so the house still was in name of Prem Chopra. Prem had two other houses in Mumbai also, which were sold off cheaply by his other brothers without telling him as they needed the money. His biography titled Prem Naam Hai Mera, Prem Chopra, written by his daughter Rakita Nanda, was released in April 2014.
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