Ravi Chopra

Ravi Chopra (born 27 September 1946) is an Indian movie producer and director. He is the son of legendary Producer-Director B.R.Chopra and nephew of late Directer-Producer Yash Chopra. Aditya Chopra and Uday Chopra are his cousins. He is known for directing the epic Indian television series Mahabharat.

Movies
Ravi has directed following films :
 * Zameer (1975),
 * The Burning Train (1980),
 * Mazdoor (1983),
 * Dahleez (1986),
 * Baghban (2003),
 * Baabul (2006).

Since 2006, after his last directed film Baabul, Ravi has produced only one film which is Bhootnath which was released in 2009. Ravi Chopra was served with a legal notice in 2009 by 20th Century Fox, which charged that his upcoming movie Bandaah ye Bindass Hai blatantly plagiarized the 1992 comedy My Cousin Vinny.[3] Chopra and the production company, Mumbai-based BR Films, denied the charges in court in May 2009; the movie's release was to be delayed until June 2009[4] by order of the Bombay High Court.[1] Fox sought 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. 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. He is a financial crisis now and a 32 crore loan is due on his father's production BR Films.

Television Serials
He also directed the highly successful television serials such as Mahabharat, which aired during 1988-1990, and the television mini-series, Ramayan, which was aired in 2002.He also directed mythos like Vishnupuran and Ma Shakti. He may comeback in television with another mytho Vasudev Krishna in 2013-14

The only movie Ravi produced after his father's death was Bhoothnath which was released in 2008.

Personal Life
Ravi is the son of producer-director B.R.Chopra and nephew of Yash Chopra. On 23 October 2012, he was diagnosed with a severe lung ailment and was discharged from Breach Candy hospital after a week. "He was discharged from hospital on October 26," hospital sources said, without divulging details about his health.