Vidhu Vinod Chopra (born 5 September 1952) is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter and editor.

[8] Sazaye Maut, his first full-length feature film, was an adaptation of his previous short, Murder at Monkey Hill.

For Khamosh, his next directorial venture, Chopra assembled a cast featuring some of the finest acting talent in India.

Shabana Azmi, Amol Palekar, Naseeruddin Shah and Pankaj Kapoor, among others, appeared in prominent roles.

An inventive meta thriller set in Kashmir, Khamosh remains one of the notable Indian films in the genre.

It expanded the orbit of the crime drama and the vocabulary of images used in Hindi films while garnering widespread critical acclaim and numerous awards.

Chopra's next film, 1942: A Love Story (1994), was a patriotic romantic drama set during the decline of the British Raj.

With Anil Kapoor and Manisha Koirala in lead roles, it was also the last film to have its music composed by the legendary R. D. Burman.

They were all also very commercially successful, with 3 Idiots and PK becoming the highest grossing Indian films of all time in India and worldwide, also breaking into East Asian markets.