Gotham Chopra was born on Gautam Chopra on February 23,1975 and is an American sports documentarian, media entrepreneur, producer, podcast host, director, journalist, and author.
18 Facts About Gotham Chopra
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Gotham Chopra is a co-founder of Religion of Sports, Liquid Comics, Chopra Media, and the Chopra Well.
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Gotham Chopra is a first-generation American and the first in his family to be born outside of India.
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Gotham Chopra is a lifelong Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics, and Bruins fan.
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Gotham Chopra's father was busy and rarely home during the first years of Gotham Chopra's childhood.
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Gotham Chopra recalls that his father drank and smoked a lot until he joined the Transcendental Meditation movement when Chopra was five.
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Gotham Chopra graduated from Belmont Hill School in 1993, then Columbia University with a bachelor's degree in English and Literature.
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In 1993, while Gotham Chopra was in college, the family relocated to California.
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Gotham Chopra found out later that he was hired because one of the Channel One executives was a fan of his fathers'.
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Gotham Chopra became a war correspondent and was stationed internationally.
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In 2012, Gotham Chopra launched the YouTube channel The Gotham Chopra Well along with his father and sister.
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Gotham Chopra helped create a virtual reality meditation video game, called Finding Your True Self, with his father in 2016.
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In 2012, Gotham Chopra created, produced, and directed Decoding Deepak about his father.
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In 2014, Gotham Chopra hosted the talk show Help Desk on the Oprah Winfrey Network.
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Gotham Chopra directed The Little Master, a documentary about Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar as part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series, and directed and produced I Am Giant about New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz.
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Gotham Chopra created, directed, produced, and narrated the docuseries Religion of Sports, which examines the profound influence sports can have on societies and cultures beyond entertainment value.
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Gotham Chopra is involved with several podcasts for Religion of Sports, including as the host for Man in the Arena: Tom Brady and Why Sports Matter.
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Gotham Chopra produces Crushed, a podcast about steroids in baseball, in collaboration with PRX.