After making five films under his brother BR Chopra's banner, Yash Chopra founded his own production house in 1973. His first film was Daag, starring Rajesh Khanna, Sharmila Tagore and Raakhee.
"I'm not sorry about the films I made with him," Chopra says. "But one day, I felt that I wanted to make movies that I wanted to make. When you're working for a producer, you have to please that person," he says. "I made Joshila with Gulshan Rai, at the same time that I made Daag. Both films were very different from each other. Since I was making a film for another producer for the first time, I thought I should make him happy. He wanted rain sequences, action, fights..., and I gave it to him. Daag was a simple film I believed in. Daag became a hit, Joshila flopped."
But though Chopra knows what kind of movies he likes to make, he admits that getting the right subjects is very tough.
"Making films is easy, but getting a subject is tough," he states. "I made Veer Zaara after a gap of six years because I did not get an interesting subject. My son, Aditya, wrote Veer Zaara, and then I made it."
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