23 Interesting Facts About Prem Chopra

1. #008

   Prem first met Manoj on the sets of Woh Kaun Thi, whose lead was Manoj Kumar. Manoj offered Prem a positive role in Shaheed, which Manoj hosted.

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2. #011

   After Teesri Manzil and Upkaar, Prem Chopra was flooded with film offers as a villain. Following the success of Upkaar in 1967, he left The Times of India and decided to be an actor for the rest of his life. He worked at TOI between 1965 and 1966 and worked on several films that became hits after release, such as Nishan, Bahu Beti and Sikandar E Azam in 1965 and Sagaai and Mera Saaya in 1966.

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   Prem Chopra considers his favourite actors to be Balraj Sahni, Pran, Ashok Kumar, Dilip Kumar, Rajesh Khanna and Shashi Kapoor.

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4. #017

   Jagjit Sethi, a Punjabi producer, gave him the opportunity to be the hero opposite Jabeen in the National Award-winning Punjabi film Chaudhary Karnail Singh. A stranger saw Prem Chopra while travelling on a suburban train and asked Prem whether he wanted to join films; Prem casually said yes, and the stranger then took Prem to Ranjit Studios, where the producers of Chaudhari Karnail Singh were looking for a hero.

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5. #018

   Prem Chopra was among the first to herald the concept of the handsome villain, and he was also one of the few who set a trend showing that a villain was not merely a stereotype spewing venom, delivering expected lines, seething with rage and gnashing his teeth.

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6. #019

   After completing his graduation, Prem Chopra came to Mumbai and stayed in various guest houses in Colaba, then took a job in the circulation department of the TOI publishing house.

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7. #021

   In 1961 Prem Chopra finally made his mark with the Punjabi film Chaudhary Karnail Singh, which won a National Award and gave Prem the recognition he wanted. He later gave a praiseworthy performance in another Punjabi film, Sapni (1963).

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8. #022

   Prem has been one of the leading villains of Hindi films since 1966, and his peak period as a lead villain in Hindi films was 1967-1994. In the 70s he usually took on major villain roles alongside Sujith Kumar and Ranjeet.

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9. #023

   Prem Chopra's daughter Punita is married to the actor Vikas Bhalla, Prerana Chopra is married to the actor Sharman Joshi, and Rakita is married to the advertising designer Rahul Nanda.

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10. #026

    Prem also performed dialogues to the song Lo Mera Pyar Lelo from Nafrat in 1973 with Asha Bhosle, and to Kab Se Ye Dil Hai Pyaasa from Mera Muqaddar in 1988.

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11. #028

    After 1999 Prem Chopra appeared as a villain in very few films. From 1999 he took on positive character roles, and from 2005 he began taking more positive roles. After 2005 his screen space in films shrank.

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12. #029

    Prem Chopra worked with Rajesh Khanna as the lead hero in 19 films: Doli, Do Raaste, Kati Patang, Daag, Ajanabee, Prem Nagar, Maha Chor, Mehbooba, Tyaag, Bebus, Aanchal, Jaanwar, Souten, Maqsad, Awaaz, Shatru, Oonche Log, Waapsi and Ghar Parivaar. Of the 17 released films, 15 were hits. And 2 films, Waapsi and Bebus, were not released.

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13. #033

    During the shooting of Main Shadi Karne Chala, the director told Prem that he had turned into a villain because fewer people wanted to play the villain and the competition beyond Pran and Jeevan had dwindled.

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14. #034

    Following in the footsteps of the villains played by Pran and Jeevan in the 1960s, Prem Chopra, who also had a habit of adding subtle humour to his villainous roles, decided in 1966 to pursue the villain concept that makes audiences laugh without losing the true depth of his evil designs.

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15. #038

    The song Rah Mein Kaliya, sung by Kishore Kumar and lip-synced on screen by Prem Chopra in the 1973 film Nafrat, which failed at the box office, remains a popular fast-paced song.

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16. #043

    Prem Chopra appeared in the shelved Devar Films Intl film Blood (2000). The cast includes Vinay Anand, Nupur Chakravorty, Deepa Patel, Prem Chopra, Reema Lagoo and Sudha Chandran, with music by Anand-Milind and direction by Raajan Devar.

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17. #045

    Prem Chopra was paired very often with Bindu in films such as Lagan, Do Raaste, Kati Patang, Tyaag, Daag, Phandebaaz, Gehri Chaal and Nafrat, and the two became a very popular pair among audiences.

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18. #047

    Prem Chopra appeared in the shelved Maa Devrati Films film Swaraj (1999). The cast includes Prem Chopra, Johnny Lever, Kiran Kumar, Pramod Moutho, Ishrat Ali, Mushtaq Khan, Rajesh Sabharwal, Sikander and Saurav Dev, with music by Pradip Nair, production by Iqbal Siddique and direction by Ashok Gautam.

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19. #048

    Prem Chopra appeared in the shelved The Roop Enterprise film Mohabbat Aur Bhagawat (1993). The cast includes Raghu Raj Chopra, Nandini, Prem Chopra, Kiran Kumar and Sulabha Deshpande, with music by Bappi Lahiri and direction by Annup Malik.

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20. #049

    Prem Chopra appeared in the shelved Suraj Productions film Main Aur Meri Adalat (1994). The cast includes Akshay Anand, Somy Ali, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Prem Chopra and Raza Murad, with music by Rajesh Roshan and direction by S. Arora.

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21. #050

    Prem Chopra's nephew Raghu Raj Chopra (son of Kailash Chopra) was to make his acting debut in the film Mohabbat Aur Bhagawat (1993). However, the film was shelved.

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22. #051

    Mehboob Khan wanted to launch Prem Chopra as a hero in Son of India. However, when he saw Prem Chopra play a negative role in Woh Kaun Thi, Mehboob Khan was very upset.

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23. #052

    S. D. Narang signed Prem Chopra to a three-film contract and planned to introduce him as a hero. All three films were shelved.

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