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List of films released by Yash Raj Films

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List of films released by Yash Raj Films
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Yash Raj Films (abbreviated as YRF) is an Indian entertainment company, established by filmmaker Yash Chopra in 1970, that produces and distributes motion pictures.[1][2] As of 2022, the company has produced over 80 Hindi films and one Tamil film. YRF started a film distribution business in 1997;[3] in addition to distributing their own productions, the company has handled the domestic and/or international distribution of over 50 films from other companies. The most frequent collaborations of the company have been with the actors Amitabh Bachchan, Raakhee, Rishi Kapoor, Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Rani Mukerji, Anushka Sharma, Katrina Kaif, and Saif Ali Khan.

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Yash Chopra, the founder of Yash Raj Films, pictured in 2012. He directed 13 films for the company between 1973 and 2012.

YRF's first release came in 1973 with the Chopra-directed Daag, a drama about bigamy, starring Rajesh Khanna, Raakhee and Sharmila Tagore.[4] The company had four more releases in the 1970s, including the ensemble romantic drama Kabhi Kabhie and the action film Kaala Patthar, both of which starred Amitabh Bachchan and Raakhee.[5] YRF's sole commercial success in the 1980s was the Sridevi-starring romantic musical Chandni.[5] The year 1995 marked the directorial debut of Chopra's elder son Aditya Chopra with the highly successful romantic drama Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.[6][7] Starring Shahrukh Khan and Kajol, the film has the longest theatrical run in Indian cinema history.[8] Other successful releases of the 1990s were Darr (1993) and Dil To Pagal Hai (1997), both starring Khan.[9]

Since the 2000s, YRF produced a larger number of films. In addition to directorial ventures from Yash and Aditya, the company launched several new directors, including Sanjay Gadhvi, Vijay Krishna Acharya, Kunal Kohli, Siddharth Anand, Shaad Ali, and Ali Abbas Zafar.[10] Some of the company's top-grossing films in the 2000s include Gadhvi's action thrillers Dhoom (2004) and Dhoom 2 (2006), Kohli's romantic thriller Fanaa (2006), Ali's crime comedy Bunty Aur Babli (2005), Yash's period romantic drama Veer-Zaara (2004), and Aditya Chopra's dramas Mohabbatein (2000) and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008).[11] Beginning in 2008, the company introduced a number of new actors such as Anushka Sharma, Ranveer Singh, Parineeti Chopra, Arjun Kapoor, Bhumi Pednekar, and Vaani Kapoor.[12]

YRF's highest-grossing films came in the 2010s with the YRF Spy Universe action thrillers Ek Tha Tiger (2012), Tiger Zinda Hai (2017) and War (2019), the action sequel Dhoom 3 (2013), and the sports drama Sultan (2016). All five films rank among the highest-grossing Hindi films of all time.[13] Following a series of commercial failures in the early 2020s,[14] the company produced the fourth instalment in the YRF Spy Universe, Pathaan (2023), starring Shah Rukh Khan and directed by Siddharth Anand, which earned over 10 billion (US$120 million) to rank as the company's highest-grossing release.[13]

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Films produced

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Raakhee played the lead female role in four of the five productions of Yash Raj Films in the 1970s.
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Amitabh Bachchan has collaborated with Yash Raj Films on six projects, playing leading roles in three of them.
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Rishi Kapoor has collaborated with Yash Raj Films on ten projects.[a]
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Sridevi played the title role in Yash Raj Films' most successful film of the 1980s Chandni (1989).[5]
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Shah Rukh Khan has worked with Yash Raj Films on ten projects, including their highest-grossing release Pathaan (2023)
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Hrithik Roshan has worked with Yash Raj Films on three projects, beginning with Mujhse Dosti Karoge! (2002).
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Kajol played the lead role in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) the film with the longest theatrical run in Indian cinema history.[8]
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Rani Mukerji has worked with Yash Raj Films on thirteen projects, beginning with Mujhse Dosti Karoge! (2002).
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Preity Zinta starred in three of the company's productions in the 2000s.
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Abhishek Bachchan played the lead role in the Dhoom franchise (2004–13).
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Saif Ali Khan has played leading roles in seven of the company's films.
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Katrina Kaif has collaborated with Yash Raj Films on eight projects, beginning with New York (2009)
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Ranveer Singh made his acting debut with Band Baaja Baaraat (2010), after which he worked with the company for five more films.
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Anushka Sharma made her acting debut with Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008) and has collaborated with the company six more times.
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Parineeti Chopra has collaborated with Yash Raj Films on seven projects, including her debut film Ladies vs Ricky Bahl (2011).
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Arjun Kapoor made his acting debut with Ishaqzaade (2012) and has since worked with the company three more times.
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Vaani Kapoor made her acting debut with Shuddh Desi Romance (2013) and has collaborated with the company on four more films.
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Aamir Khan has starred in two top-grossing films of the company, Fanaa (2006) and Dhoom 3 (2013).
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Salman Khan has starred in four of the company's highest-grossing releases, including the three films in the Tiger film series.
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Aditya Chopra, the company's managing director and CEO
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Ali Abbas Zafar has directed four films for the company, including Sultan (2016) and Tiger Zinda Hai (2017).
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Siddharth Anand has directed five films for the company, including the YRF Spy Universe films War (2019) and Pathaan (2023).
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Films distributed

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The following films from other banners were distributed, in domestic and/or overseas markets, by the company:[106]

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Footnotes

  1. This does not include a guest appearance in Jab Tak Hai Jaan.[15]
  2. The film was co-produced with Kunal Kohli Productions.[53]
  3. The film was co-produced with Walt Disney Pictures.[56]
  4. The Tamilfilm was a remake of Band Baaja Baaraat and the company's first film not in the Hindi language.[75]
  5. The film was co-produced with Dibakar Banerjee Productions.[78][79]

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