Yash Chopra: A Deewar none can climb
When Yash Chopra walked into the sunset, 53 years after he blazed a trail with Dhool Ka Phool , he was a ripe old 80. At this age, even if the loss is huge, inevitability shrouds the shock of it. But, his passing away came as a huge shock, so unannounced it was. Shock was, incidentally, a concept Yash Chopra had most meticulously camouflaged in his brand of cinema — be it in his socially-relevant films of the 60s, his version of the imploding 70s or the sensuous romances which defined him in later years. For, this great filmmaker believed in the ultimate kind of packaging — say the most potent thing you want to, but in style and with acceptability; couch your belligerence, your frustration with issues in subtleties which win audiences, not alienate them. That’s what he preached — and always practised. Though worshipped for the seductive chemistry of picture-prefect-locales-chiffons-and-beauty he brought to romance on Indian screen, and often accused of having lost his way navel g