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on 2007/6/19 0:48:19
Showdown between Yash and Aditya Chopra threatens to rock Bollywood. And the woman on the left is at the centre of it
Filmdom's most powerful family business is facing its biggest crisis yet. Bollywood's abuzz with rumours of a showdown between director-producer Yash Chopra and his son Aditya over the latter's impending divorce from his wife Payal.
Aditya and Payal, who is the daughter of close family friends of the Chopras, got married in 2001. But the strain in the relationship began to show soon after, with Aditya Chopra moving out of home for a while before starting divorce proceedings.
But what sets this divorce apart from others is that it has directly put the Rs 1000 crore plus Yashraj empire at stake. Sources at YRF studios in Andheri say that father and son have stopped speaking to each other but the relationship reached a flashpoint recently when, upset with Aditya Chopra's decision to press ahead with the divorce proceedings, Yash Chopra threatened to disinherit him.
"There was a showdown between the father and the son and in a fit of rage Yash uncle asked Adi to move out of the family business," confirms a source close to the Chopra family on the condition of anonymity. "Yash Chopra and Adi do talk to each other in office when required but as far as their personal equation is concerned I wouldn't know anything," said YRF spokesperson Monica Bhattacharya when asked to comment on the fight.
The family business is now virtually run by the reclusive Aditya Chopra and he is clearly acknowledged as the mastermind behind the stupendous success of Yashraj Films. It was his initiative to build the state-of-the-art Yashraj Studios at Andheri and the interiors of which were done up by Payal herself. At the same time Yash Chopra remains the studio's auteur-director and commands tremendous goodwill in Bollywood. Any falling out between the two men will affect the Chopra juggernaut and in the long-run, given the clout they enjoy, Bollywood itself.
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