Happy Birthday Aditya Chopra: here are 10 lesser-known facts about the filmmaker

  1.  21 is the lucky number of Aditya Chopra. He was born on May 21 and got married on April 21.
  2.  Aditya Chopra is an astounding football player. He is a football fan since childhood.
  3.  Aditya was just 23 when he began working on the epic romance of Raj and Simran in his directorial debut Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge.
  4.  Always good in academics, Aditya passed out from Mumbai’s renowned Bombay Scottish School and graduated from Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics.
  5.  Aditya has assisted his father, late Yash Chopra on the late Sridevi-starrer Chandni and later on a schedule of Deepak Sareen’s Aaina.
  6. While assisting his father for Anil Kapoor’s Lamhe, Aditya Chopra decided to be a director by profession.
  7. Aditya Chopra’s production banner has given some of the famous names to Bollywood including Ranveer Singh, Anushka Sharma, Vaani Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor, Mandira Bedi, Parmeet Sethi, Uday Chopra and Parineeti Chopra.
  8. The filmmaker’s bestie Karan Johar began his career assisting him on DDLJ and it was Aditya who encouraged him to take up direction.
  9.  His favourite books are Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead, Jeffery Archer’s Kane and Abel, and John Grisham’s The Firm.
  10.  Shahrukh Khan wasn’t the choice of Yash Chopra or Aditya Chopra for Darr, however, after, everybody rejected the negative role, YRF ended up signing Shah Rukh Khan for the role.