“Somewhere there’s a love story unfolding at every given point. I decided to give a new twist to the emotion called love in my films,” Yash Chopra once said in an old interview. Often hailed as the Father of Romance in Hindi cinema, Chopra struck a chord with audiences by tapping into the very core of human emotions. “I decided to make films on the one theme that can never get outdated, namely human emotions and human relationships,” he had added.

But Yash Chopra didn’t just epitomise romance in Hindi films — he also built stars with his films, gave his actors space to grow, and often recognised hidden talent that he then pushed in new directions. One of the finest examples of this was Shah Rukh Khan. Chopra encouraged him to embrace the image of a romantic hero. “Yashji kept telling

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