Filmmaker Ravi Chopra, who was admitted to Breach Candy hospital, died at around 3.30 pm today. "He passed away today at around 3.30 p.m. His funeral most probably will take place tomorrow at around 11," a source close to Ravi Chopra's family had stated. Ravi garnered huge popularity and respect for his TV shows and Bollywood projects. The 68-year-old "Baghban" director had, as reports suggest, been suffering from a severe lung ailment since the last few years.
Ravi Chopra is the son of legendary producer and director B.R.Chopra and nephew of producer and director Yash Chopra. His cousins are Aditya Chopra and Uday Chopra .
A legal notice was sent to Ravi Chopra in 2009 by 20th Century Fox. The reason? His upcoming film 'Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai' plagiarized the 1992 comedy 'My Cousin Vinny'. While Chopra and the production company, Mumbai-based BR Films, had denied the charges in court in May 2009; the movie's release was delayed until June 2009 following the order of the Bombay High Court. Fox wanted damages of $1.4 million; this was the first time a Bollywood filmmaker was taken to court by a Hollywood company over the remaking of a film. As Wikipedia states, "Fox had given Chopra permission "to make a film loosely based on the Oscar winning movie" but concluded the final product was a "substantial reproduction" of the original."
Ravi directed the highly successful television serial Mahabharat aired during 1988-1990.
He had also directed the television mini-series, Ramayan, which was aired in 2002.
Among the other mythological shows he was involved in were - Vishnu Puran and Ma Shakti.
If reports are to be believed, he was expected to make a comeback to TV with another mythological series, Vasudev Krishna.
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