Yash Chopra’s wife Pamela Chopra passed away. There was a wave of mourning in Bollywood due to his death. According to reports, 74-year-old Pamela Chopra was ill for a long time, due to which she was admitted to Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai.
After her death, from Bollywood stars to director-producers are paying tribute to him. We all know that Pamela Chopra is Yash Chopra’s wife, Uday and Aditya’s mother and Rani Mukherjee’s mother-in-law, but do you know that his wife played an important role in making Yash Chopra a big filmmaker.
Pamela Chopra made Yash Chopra the ‘King of Romance’
Yash Chopra is still remembered for his romantic films. Yash Chopra has given superhit films like Dil To Pagal Hai to Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and Silsila in his career. Apart from presenting their love story to the world, Yash Chopra’s films were famous for one more thing, that was the music of their films.
When the music of Yash Chopra’s films is played even today, people get lost somewhere in its tune. However, you would hardly know that the biggest hand in making Yash Chopra’s music hit was his wife Pamela Chopra.
In ‘The Romantics’ released on Netflix, Yash Chopra himself told that his wife was a very good singer. He may have kept himself away from the limelight, but he made Yash Raj’s songs memorable.
Pamela Chopra gave her voice in these romantic songs
Pamela Chopra was multi talented. She has been a playback singer. She lent her melodious voice to romantic tracks in Yash Raj films like Khel Nirale (Noori), Khud Se Jo Vaada Kiya Tha (Silsila), Main Sasural Nahi Jaungi (Chandni), Ghar Aaja Pardesi (Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge).
Pamela Chopra worked not only as a singer, but also as a writer and producer. However, you may be surprised to know that Pamela Chopra never sang songs for any other producer-director’s films except Yash Chopra’s films.
He himself told in one of his interviews that music has always been a passion for him and Yash Chopra understood her passion very well. Aditya Chopra had also told in The Romantics that his mother has always been a strong pillar of Yash Raj films.