YRF Music has grown to be one of the largest film studios in India.
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15 Facts About YRF Music
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YRF Music was founded by Yash Raj Chopra, a Punjabi veteran director and producer of the Indian film industry, in 1970.
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The first film to be shot in YRF Music Studios was the company's 2006 critical and commercial blockbuster Fanaa.
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Apart from film production, Chopra's YRF Music distributed and canvassed a wide variety of Independent films that came out of the Parallel Cinema industry of India, such as Godmother, Zubeidaa, Maqbool, Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities, Black, My Brother Nikhil, Mangal Pandey: The Rising and Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara, that helped them leverage with a powerful film production house such as his, and thereby reach a wider audience on their release.
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YRF Music Distributors released several big-budgeted films such as Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Biwi No 1, Kaho Naa.
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The first soundtrack to be distributed under YRF Music was the company's critical and commercial musical blockbuster Veer Zaara.
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YRF Music however declined the acquisition offer made by the American conglomerate.
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YRF Music was made open to Indian enterprises only and no FDI was accepted.
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YRF Music came out with more films, under the chairmanship of Chopra and the new management.
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YRF Music launched a number of budding screenwriters and directors under their banner throughout these years.
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Directors and screenwriters such as Karan Johar, Kunal Kohli, Kabir Khan, Sanjay Gadhvi, Jaideep Sahni, Siddharth Anand, Shimit Amin, Habib Faisal, Shaad Ali, Maneesh Sharma and Vijay Acharya debuted under YRF Music and have gone on to become independent entities in films.
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YRF Music produced films for filmmakers such as Anil Mehta and Pradeep Sarkar under their banner.
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YRF Music was eventually ranked Number 1 in a survey conducted by Filmfare and Number 27 in a survey by The Hollywood Reporter.
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Apart from producing big-budgeted films with established actors, YRF Music announced several films featuring relative newcomers in the fourth quarter of Fiscal year 2012; Aurangzeb starring Prithviraj Sukumaran, Sashaa Agha and Arjun Kapoor, Gunday starring Ranveer Singh, Bewakoofiyan starring Ayushmann Khurrana and Sonam Kapoor, Daawat-e-Ishq with Aditya Roy Kapoor, Mardaani with Rani Mukerji and Kill Dil starring Ali Zafar and Govinda.
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