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 Rani Mukerji, Rishi Kapoor, Shah Rukh Khan, Anushka Sharma, Katrina Kaif, and Saif Ali Khan.
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]
† | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
Title | Year | Director | Cast | Synopsis | Ref. |
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Daag | 1973 | Yash Chopra | Rajesh Khanna, Sharmila Tagore, Raakhee | A woman learns her presumed-dead husband is alive and married to someone else. | [4] |
Kabhi Kabhie | 1976 | Yash Chopra | Amitabh Bachchan, Raakhee, Shashi Kapoor, Waheeda Rehman, Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh | An aspiring poet and a young woman fall in love but marry others, only to be brought together years later through their children. | [16] |
Doosra Aadmi | 1977 | Ramesh Talwar | Raakhee, Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh, Shashi Kapoor | A successful woman becomes infatuated with a younger married man who reminds her of her late lover. | [17] |
Noorie | 1979 | Manmohan Krishna | Farooq Sheikh, Poonam Dhillon | After a young woman takes her life following a sexual assault, her fiancé sets out to avenge her death. | [18] |
Kaala Patthar | 1979 | Yash Chopra | Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Shatrughan Sinha, Raakhee, Parveen Babi, Neetu Singh, Sanjeev Kumar | A disgraced sea captain becomes a coal miner and, with the support of his colleagues, leads a fight for workers’ rights. | [19] [20] |
Nakhuda | 1981 | Dilip Naik | Raj Kiran, Swaroop Sampat, Kulbhushan Kharbanda | A loyal protégé’s relationship with his mentor begins to fracture after his wealthy father-in-law manipulates him for personal gain. | [21] |
Silsila | 1981 | Yash Chopra | Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Rekha, Sanjeev Kumar | After his brother's death, a man marries his brother's pregnant girlfriend, only to later reignite a love affair with his now-married former lover. | [22] |
Sawaal | 1982 | Ramesh Talwar | Sanjeev Kumar, Poonam Dhillon, Shashi Kapoor, Randhir Kapoor, Waheeda Rehman | A powerful criminal's world unravels when his daughter falls in love with a police officer and his son turns against his criminal empire. | [23] |
Mashaal | 1984 | Yash Chopra | Dilip Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Anil Kapoor, Rati Agnihotri | An honest journalist who exposes a drug lord loses his career and seeks revenge, but a vagabond he once saved tries to steer him away from a life of crime. | [5] [24] |
Faasle | 1985 | Yash Chopra | Sunil Dutt, Rekha, Farooq Sheikh, Farah, Deepti Naval, Raj Kiran, Rohan Kapoor | A widower struggles to balance raising his children and his relationship with a younger woman, but disapproves when his daughter chooses to marry her lover. | [25] |
Vijay | 1988 | Yash Chopra | Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini, Rishi Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Meenakshi Sheshadri | Two friends become enemies upon discovering they are first cousins, with their destinies shaped by the manipulation of their evil grandfather. | [26] |
Chandni | 1989 | Yash Chopra | Sridevi, Rishi Kapoor, Vinod Khanna, Waheeda Rehman | After her fiancé becomes paralysed in an accident and pushes her away, a heartbroken woman finds comfort in the home of a middle-aged widower. | [27] |
Lamhe | 1991 | Yash Chopra | Anil Kapoor, Sridevi, Waheeda Rehman, Anupam Kher | A man falls in love with an older woman who marries someone else, and years later, her daughter falls in love with him. | [28] |
Aaina | 1993 | Deepak Sareen | Jackie Shroff, Amrita Singh, Juhi Chawla | Two sisters fall in love with the same man, leading to jealousy and heartbreak when he marries one, only for the other to return and claim him. | [29] |
Darr | 1993 | Yash Chopra | Sunny Deol, Juhi Chawla, Shah Rukh Khan | A newly-wed woman is stalked by an obsessed man claiming to be in love with her, and with her husband's help, she tries to escape his harassment. | [30] |
Yeh Dillagi | 1994 | Naresh Malhotra | Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan, Kajol | Two brothers with contrasting personalities fall in love with their chauffeur's daughter, a model, causing tension with their domineering mother. | [31] |
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge | 1995 | Aditya Chopra | Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol | A teenage girl falls in love with a flirtatious boy during a trip across Europe, but is forced by her father to marry someone else. | [32] |
Dil To Pagal Hai | 1997 | Yash Chopra | Shah Rukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Karisma Kapoor, Akshay Kumar | A stage dancer falls for her director, but he is in love with another dancer who is engaged to her childhood friend. | [33] |
Mohabbatein | 2000 | Aditya Chopra | Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai, Uday Chopra, Shamita Shetty, Jugal Hansraj, Kim Sharma, Jimmy Shergill, Preeti Jhangiani | A music teacher inspires his students to stand up against their authoritarian principal to avenge the suicide of his girlfriend. | [34] |
Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai | 2002 | Sanjay Gadhvi | Uday Chopra, Sanjana, Jimmy Shergill, Bipasha Basu | A man decides to break the engagement of his childhood friend after realising that he is in love with her. | [35] |
Mujhse Dosti Karoge! | 2002 | Kunal Kohli | Rani Mukherji, Hrithik Roshan, Kareena Kapoor | A man falls for a woman, believing her e-mails were written by her, unaware that they were actually sent by her childhood friend, who secretly loves him. | [36] |
Saathiya | 2002 | Shaad Ali | Rani Mukerji, Vivek Oberoi | A couple faces a series of troubles and misunderstandings after eloping and getting married. | [37] |
Hum Tum | 2004 | Kunal Kohli | Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukerji | A man and a woman cross paths at various stages of their lives and eventually fall in love after the woman's husband passes away. | [38] |
Dhoom | 2004 | Sanjay Gadhvi | Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham, Uday Chopra, Esha Deol, Rimi Sen | A police officer and a motorbike dealer team up to catch a group of bank robbers. | [39] |
Veer-Zaara | 2004 | Yash Chopra | Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Rani Mukerji | An Indian Air Force pilot falls in love with a Pakistani woman, leading to his wrongful imprisonment for 22 years, while a Pakistani lawyer fights for his freedom. | [40] |
Bunty Aur Babli | 2005 | Shaad Ali | Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Rani Mukerji | Two villagers run away and become con artists under the aliases Bunty and Babli, while an alcoholic policeman tries to catch them. | [41] |
Salaam Namaste | 2005 | Siddharth Anand | Saif Ali Khan, Preity Zinta | A couple living together in Melbourne faces complications when the woman becomes pregnant, and the man refuses to take responsibility. | [42] |
Neal 'n' Nikki | 2005 | Arjun Sablok | Uday Chopra, Tanishaa Mukerji | A man plans to sleep with 21 women before marriage, but his plans are interrupted by a free-spirited woman. | [43] |
Fanaa | 2006 | Kunal Kohli | Aamir Khan, Kajol | A blind woman falls in love with an undercover terrorist who abandons her, and years later, after regaining her sight, she cares for him without realizing his true identity. | [44] |
Dhoom 2 | 2006 | Sanjay Gadhvi | Hrithik Roshan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Bipasha Basu, Uday Chopra | A team of police officers tries to catch a skilled jewel thief, using a petty thief to seduce him, but her loyalty to the police is called into question. | [45] |
Kabul Express | 2006 | Kabir Khan | John Abraham, Arshad Warsi, Salman Shahid, Linda Arsenio | Two Indian journalists and an American journalist are held hostage by a Taliban militant while trying to cross the border into Pakistan. | [46] |
Ta Ra Rum Pum | 2007 | Siddharth Anand | Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukerji | A car racing champion loses his career after an accident, and his family faces hardships before he makes a triumphant comeback. | [47] |
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom | 2007 | Shaad Ali | Abhishek Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Bobby Deol, Lara Dutta, Amitabh Bachchan | Two strangers at a train station lie about their partners while secretly falling for each other, and hire others to be their partners for a dance competition. | [48] |
Chak De! India | 2007 | Shimit Amin | Shah Rukh Khan | A disgraced hockey player tries to redeem himself by coaching a group of underachievers in the India women's national field hockey team to win the world cup. | [49] |
Laaga Chunari Mein Daag | 2007 | Pradeep Sarkar | Jaya Bachchan, Rani Mukerji, Konkona Sen Sharma, Kunal Kapoor, Abhishek Bachchan | To support her family, a young woman moves to the city in search of work, but hardships lead her to become a female escort. | [50] |
Aaja Nachle | 2007 | Anil Mehta | Madhuri Dixit, Konkona Sen Sharma, Akshaye Khanna, Kunal Kapoor | A New York-based choreographer returns to her hometown in India to save a dance theatre from being demolished by a local politician. | [51] |
Tashan | 2008 | Vijay Krishna Acharya | Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Anil Kapoor | A woman steals money from her criminal boss, who then hires her disgruntled ex-lover and a gangster to track her down. | [52] |
Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic[b] | 2008 | Kunal Kohli | Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukerji | An angel comes to Earth to help four troubled kids after a judge orders a loner to take custody of them following an accident that kills their parents. | [54] |
Bachna Ae Haseeno | 2008 | Siddharth Anand | Ranbir Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Minissha Lamba, Deepika Padukone | A womanizer seeks forgiveness from two women he abandoned after his heart is broken by another. | [55] |
Roadside Romeo[c] | 2008 | Jugal Hansraj | Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor | A deserted dog befriends four strays and battles an evil neighborhood dog. | [57] |
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi | 2008 | Aditya Chopra | Shah Rukh Khan, Anushka Sharma | An under-confident middle-aged man pretends to be a boisterous younger man to win the affection of his newly-wed bride. | [58] |
New York | 2009 | Kabir Khan | John Abraham, Katrina Kaif, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Irrfan Khan | After being wrongly imprisoned post-9/11, a Muslim student turns to terrorism for revenge, while the FBI uses his friend to spy on him. | [59] |
Dil Bole Hadippa! | 2009 | Anurag Singh | Rani Mukerji, Shahid Kapoor | A woman disguises herself as a man to pursue her dream of playing professional cricket. | [60] |
Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year | 2009 | Shimit Amin | Ranbir Kapoor, Gauahar Khan, Shazahn Padamsee | A disillusioned salesman starts his own firm with the help of other disgruntled employees from a computer service company. | [61] |
Pyaar Impossible | 2010 | Jugal Hansraj | Uday Chopra, Priyanka Chopra, Dino Morea | A software engineer becomes a nanny for the daughter of a divorced businesswoman he once had a crush on in college. | [62] |
Badmaash Company | 2010 | Parmeet Sethi | Shahid Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Meiyang Chang, Vir Das | Four underachieving friends start a successful scam business, but misunderstandings within the group threaten their venture. | [63] |
Lafangey Parindey | 2010 | Pradeep Sarkar | Neil Nitin Mukesh, Deepika Padukone | A blind girl trains to win a skating competition, and is helped in her quest by a street fighter who was responsible for her loss of sight. | [64] |
Band Baaja Baaraat | 2010 | Maneesh Sharma | Ranveer Singh, Anushka Sharma | An ambitious girl and a street-smart boy start a wedding-planning business, but a one-night stand turns them into rivals. | [65] |
Mere Brother Ki Dulhan | 2011 | Ali Abbas Zafar | Katrina Kaif, Imran Khan, Ali Zafar | A man arranges for the marriage of his brother to a loquacious woman, but falls in love with her instead. | [66] |
Ladies vs Ricky Bahl | 2011 | Maneesh Sharma | Ranveer Singh, Anushka Sharma, Parineeti Chopra, Dipannita Sharma, Aditi Sharma | Three women, who have been robbed and deceived by a con man, hire a con woman whom he loves to teach him a lesson. | [67] |
Ishaqzaade | 2012 | Habib Faisal | Parineeti Chopra, Arjun Kapoor | A Hindu man and a Muslim woman from warring political families engage in a passionate affair with each other. | [68] |
Ek Tha Tiger | 2012 | Kabir Khan | Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif | An Indian RAW agent is on a mission to recover confidential information from a scientist, during which he falls in love with a mysterious Pakistani ISI agent. | [69] |
Jab Tak Hai Jaan | 2012 | Yash Chopra | Shah Rukh Khan, Katrina Kaif, Anushka Sharma | After a car accident, a woman promises to break up with her boyfriend to save his life, leading him to defy death as a bomb-disposal expert. | [70] |
Aurangzeb | 2013 | Atul Sabharwal | Arjun Kapoor, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Sashaa Agha, Rishi Kapoor, Jackie Shroff | A police officer, who is the doppelganger of a criminal's son, is forced by his family to go undercover in the criminal's home. | [71] |
Shuddh Desi Romance | 2013 | Maneesh Sharma | Sushant Singh Rajput, Parineeti Chopra, Vaani Kapoor | A man runs away from his arranged wedding to live with another woman, only for her to leave him on their wedding day. | [72] |
Dhoom 3 | 2013 | Vijay Krishna Acharya | Aamir Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Katrina Kaif, Uday Chopra, Jackie Shroff | A circus boy, trained in circus theatrics, vows to take down a corrupt Chicago-based bank after his father's suicide. Two police officers from Mumbai try to catch them. | [73] |
Gunday | 2014 | Ali Abbas Zafar | Ranveer Singh, Arjun Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Irrfan Khan | Two refugees from Bangladesh emerge as the most powerful coal bandits in Calcutta. Misunderstandings arise when they both fall in love with the same cabaret dancer. | [74] |
Aaha Kalyanam[d] | 2014 | A. Gokul Krishna | Nani, Vaani Kapoor | An ambitious girl and a street-smart boy begin a wedding-planning business, but a one-night stand turns them into rivals. (Remake of Band Baaja Baaraat) | [76] |
Bewakoofiyaan | 2014 | Nupur Asthana | Ayushmann Khurrana, Sonam Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor | A man fired from his job during the Indian recession must convince his rich girlfriend's father to let her marry him. | [77] |
Titli[e] | 2014 | Kanu Behl | Shashank Arora, Shivani Raghuvanshi, Ranvir Shorey, Amit Sial | The youngest son of a criminal family and his reluctant bride manipulate and ultimately help each other to escape the family. | [80] |
Mardaani | 2014 | Pradeep Sarkar | Rani Mukerji, Tahir Raj Bhasin | Following the disappearance of a teenage girl, a policewoman uncovers secrets of a high-profile sex trafficking racket in India. | [81] |
Daawat-e-Ishq | 2014 | Habib Faisal | Aditya Roy Kapur, Parineeti Chopra | A young woman and her father trap a man under the dowry law in India to fund her trip to America. | [82] |
Kill Dil | 2014 | Shaad Ali | Ranveer Singh, Parineeti Chopra, Ali Zafar, Govinda | Two orphans are trained to be assassins by a gangster. Trouble arises when one of them falls in love and decides to leave the business. | [83] |
Dum Laga Ke Haisha | 2015 | Sharat Katariya | Ayushmann Khurrana, Bhumi Pednekar | An unambitious man is forced into marrying an aspiring schoolteacher. Initially hesitant to accept his overweight bride, the couple eventuality grow closer. | [84] |
Detective Byomkesh Bakshy![e] | 2015 | Dibakar Banerjee | Sushant Singh Rajput, Swastika Mukherjee | During World War II, Byomkesh Bakshy, a young detective in Calcutta, becomes embroiled in a murder mystery. | [85] |
Fan | 2016 | Maneesh Sharma | Shah Rukh Khan | A star's doppelganger fan turns into a dangerous foe when the former refuses the latter's advances. | [86] |
Sultan | 2016 | Ali Abbas Zafar | Salman Khan, Anushka Sharma | A middle-aged former wrestler with a tragic past overcomes his insecurities to return to the sport. | [87] |
Befikre | 2016 | Aditya Chopra | Ranveer Singh, Vaani Kapoor | An impulsive couple in Paris engage in an affair while promising not to fall in love with each other. | [88] |
Meri Pyaari Bindu | 2017 | Akshay Roy | Ayushmann Khurrana, Parineeti Chopra | A successful writer, stuck with writer's block, returns to his roots to write an old-fashioned love story. | [89] |
Qaidi Band | 2017 | Habib Faisal | Aadar Jain, Anya Singh | Seven innocent under-trials give a band performance in the prison to secure their acquittal. | [90] |
Tiger Zinda Hai | 2017 | Ali Abbas Zafar | Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif | Tiger and his wife, Zoya, unite to rescue Indian and Pakistani nurses held hostage by an Islamic terror group. | [91] |
Hichki | 2018 | Siddharth P. Malhotra | Rani Mukerji | An aspiring teacher suffering from Tourette syndrome must prove herself by educating a group of underprivileged students. | [92] |
Sui Dhaaga | 2018 | Sharat Katariya | Anushka Sharma, Varun Dhawan | An unemployed small town couple start their own garment business. | [93] |
Thugs of Hindostan | 2018 | Vijay Krishna Acharya | Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Katrina Kaif, Fatima Sana Shaikh | In 1795, a band of thugs aspire to free Hindostan from the rule of the East India Company. Alarmed, the British send a con-artist to infiltrate and counter the threat. | [94] |
War | 2019 | Siddharth Anand | Hrithik Roshan, Tiger Shroff, Vaani Kapoor | An Indian soldier is assigned to eliminate his mentor, a former soldier gone rogue. | [95] |
Mardaani 2 | 2019 | Gopi Puthran | Rani Mukerji, Vishal Jethwa | A policewoman goes up against a young rapist and serial killer. | [96] |
Bunty Aur Babli 2 | 2021 | Varun V. Sharma | Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukerji, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Sharvari Wagh | Two scam artists are forced out of retirement when their calling card begins appearing across India. | [97] |
Jayeshbhai Jordaar | 2022 | Divyang Thakkar | Ranveer Singh, Shalini Pandey | A timid man flees with his wife to protect their daughter from foeticide. | [98] |
Samrat Prithviraj | 2022 | Chandraprakash Dwivedi | Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt, Sonu Sood, Manushi Chhillar | Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan of the Chauhan dynasty, clashes with Muhammad Ghori, a ruler from the Ghurid dynasty who led the Islamic Conquest of Hindustan. | [98] |
Shamshera | 2022 | Karan Malhotra | Ranbir Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Vaani Kapoor | Set in the 1800s, a dacoit tribe fight for independence against British rule. | [98] |
Pathaan | 2023 | Siddharth Anand | Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, John Abraham | An exiled RAW agent must prevent a disgruntled terrorist from releasing a deadly synthetic virus. | [99] |
The Great Indian Family | 2023 | Vijay Krishna Acharya | Vicky Kaushal, Manushi Chhillar | A religious Hindu man has a crisis when he finds out that he is Muslim by birth. | [100] |
Tiger 3 | 2023 | Maneesh Sharma | Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Emraan Hashmi | Framed as traitors by a vengeful terrorist, two spies embark on a dangerous mission to clear their names. | [101] |
Saiyaara† | 2025 | Mohit Suri | Ahaan Panday, Aneet Padda | TBA | [102] |
War 2† | 2025 | Ayan Mukerji | Hrithik Roshan, N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Kiara Advani, Anil Kapoor | TBA | [103] |
Alpha† | 2025 | Shiv Rawail | Alia Bhatt, Sharvari, Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol | TBA | [104] |
Mardaani 3† | 2026 | Abhiraj Minawala | Rani Mukerji, Janki Bodiwala | TBA | [105] |
The following films from other banners were distributed, in domestic and/or overseas markets, by the company:[106]