Introduction Communication Design

Authors Avatar

Introduction to Communication Design                By Jayna Patel, Yogita Solanki and Salma Khan

Introduction to

Communication Design

Final Assessment:

 

The Journalistic Piece on a Living Film Maker

Yash Chopra

By Jayna Patel, Yogita Solanki

and Salma Khan

April 2005


Contents page

                        Page Number

Introduction.........................................................................................        3

Obituary..............................................................................................        4

A Review on Veer Zaara....................................................................        5

A Background Feature Article on the Type of Work which they are

associated with - Money Making Mogul.............................................        7

A Background Feature Article on an Issue with which Yash Chopra

has been linked to - Mumbai Mafia: The Dark Side to Bollywood...........................................................................................        9

Evaluative Commentary

By Salma Khan...................................................................................        10

By Jayna Patel....................................................................................12

By Yogita Solanki...............................................................................        15

Bibliography………………………………………………………………        17

Introduction

Our group has chosen option A, the journalistic piece on a living film maker. We have decided to write about an Indian film maker, Yash Chopra who produces and directors Bollywood movies in India.  He is a very popular film maker with enormous hits across the world. We have written the articles on Yash Chopra for The Guardian newspaper which includes an obituary, a review on a film he has produced, a background feature article on the type of work and an issue he is associated with.

Mr Yash B. Chopra

Obituary

Yash B. Chopra, 72, of Mumbai, India, passed away on Friday 13th December 2004. Mr. Chopra, born in Jalandhar, Punjab was undoubtedly India's most successful film-maker. With a career spanning over four decades, he has been associated with countless films, some of which have created box-office history. Chopra was the late husband of Pamela, father of Aditya and brother to Uday. 

Yash was rushed to Mumbai's Lilavati Hospital, in the early hours of the morning and was diagnosed with severe chest infection. Chopra breathed his last on Monday, December 13th 2004. Members of the film industry came out in force to pay their last respects in Jalandhar, to the gentleman filmmaker that was Yash Chopra. Son and noted actor Aditya lit the funeral pyre at 2pm. Uday Chopra and beloved wife Pamela stayed back to collect the ashes. A great man in the Indian film industry will be sorely missed. May he rest in peace.

Veer Zaara

Details:        2004, India, Certificate U, 192 minutes

Cast:         Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Rani Mukherjee, Kirron Kher, Boman         Irani, Anupam Kher, Divya Dutta, Manoj Bajpai, Amitabh Bachchan         and Hema Malini.

Director:         Yash Chopra

Production:        Yash Chopra

Music:         Madan Mohan

Summary:        Veer Zaara is not an ordinary story - it's a love legend. This is a saga          of love, separation, courage and sacrifice.

Rating:             

Review

The eagerly awaited film Veer Zaara has finally hit the big-time. Yash Chopra's old yet passionate storyline has proved to be "a little more extraordinary" than expectations. There is romance, a strong dose of emotions, songs galore and drama. But, more importantly, it has soul, which has been lacking in most movies of late. Their body, language, performance, speech and manner reminisce a period when sensations were features of the human nature.

VEER-ZAARA is the story of an Indian man, Veer Pratap Singh (Shah Rukh Khan) and a Pakistani woman, Zaara Hayaat Khan (Preity Zinta). Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh is a rescue pilot with the Indian Air Force. As a caring person, Veer goes out of his way to help someone in crisis. Whilst on duty, he comes across Zaara, the daughter of a significant Pakistani politician (Boman Irani). A simple girl by nature, Zaara is happy to marry the man of her parent’s choice, Raza (Manoj Bajpai). She has come to India to fulfil her surrogate Hindu grandmother’s (Zohra Segal) last wish: to immerse her ashes in the holy river.


However the bus in which she is travelling in is involved in an accident. It is at this point that she meets Veer. Their initial friendship starts off unpleasantly, but before they realise it, they fall in love. Veer also takes this opportunity to show Zaara the place where he grew up (Punjab). His Uncle (Amitabh Bachchan) and Aunt (Hema Malini), who have raised Veer as he is an orphan, also developed a strong liking for Zaara.


However before Veer could express his love to Zaara, Raza walks in, who has just landed from Lahore in search of Zaara. While in Lahore, Zaara finds it difficult to forget Veer. Her maid Shabbo (Divya Dutta) calls Veer in India and explains the situation. Veer gives up his job and arrives in Lahore and meets Zaara in the attendance of her family. But the wedding between Raza and Zaara takes place, while Veer is arrested by the Pakistani police on charges of being a spy.


Twenty two years later, a Pakistani lawyer, Saamiya Siddiqui (Rani Mukerji), comes to his rescue. She meets an ageing Veer Pratap Singh for the first time. He has suffered in a Pakistan jail cell for 22 years and has spoken to no-one.

Saamiya takes it upon herself to find the truth about this man, why he has been silent for 22 years and find out where Zaara is.


Veer Zaara starts off as a routine love story. There are half-a-dozen songs in the first half itself. The screenplay never lets you down. Just when you think that the story is about to change, you are introduced to two more characters, Amitabh, Hema and later Manoj Bajpai.

Director Yash Chopra proves again that he was a master storyteller. Attempting a film of classic proportions is one thing and achieving full justice is another. Veer Zaara proves that the new generation directors have so much to learn from our peers.

Money-Maker Mogul

One of the most fascinating and powerful directors in the Indian Film Industry is the late Yash Chopra. The films he had made for the last forty years had a central theme for romance. 'Love is what attracts a universal audience'.

Join now!

Yash Chopra, separated from his brother's company, created his own Yash Raj Films in 1971. Each film released was a mega-event for Yash Raj Films, from the first, Daag (1973) to his 1997 hit, Dil To Paagal Hai. Fans usually label him the eternal romantic and had been regarded as the King of Romance. His directed features include some of the classic films of Indian film history such as Deewar and Kabhie Kabhie.

Yash respected all his heroines and had been linked to quite a few of them, such as Sadhana, Nanda and Mumtaz. This affection had shown ...

This is a preview of the whole essay