Bollywood mourns death of romance icon Yash Chopra

Romance icon Yash Chopra passed away yesterday leaving the whole world into a shock. Lata Mangeshkar couldn’t believe her ears when she heard about the news. "Our birthdays are separated by a day. This year he sent me an idol of Mata Saraswati. He loved me like his sister. I feel like I've lost my brother," said the legendary singer.

Director Karan Johar felt as he had lost his father all over again, while SRK went numb with grief. "Yashji gone? Nah! Has to be a cruel joke," said Anupam Kher. Veteran actress Waheeda Rehman who had delivered Yashji’s three best moviesKabhi Kabhie,TrishulandMashaalfound it hard to believe the news unlike Mangeshkar. "It's so sudden. Just some days ago, I met him at Amitabh's birthday party. He looked hale and hearty and was smiling like always," she said. "Yashji never lost his cool. I remember we shot a famous dramatic sequence in Mashaal where I was dying on the road and Dilip Kumar was pleading with people to take me to the hospital. The scene was done on the road in the middle of the night. We were all edgy, but not Yashji. He was always calm and in control. He never allowed himself any negative thoughts."



He began withDhool ka Phoolin 1959 that changed the face of Indian cinema, the grammar of storytelling and brought in radical themes: unwed motherhood in Dhool Ka Phool, the communal divide in Dharmputra, bigamy in Daag, and the Oedipal complex in Lamhe, obsessive love in Darr and the Indo-Pak association in Veer-Zara. Yash Chopra will remain as the most successful director of the period in our hearts.