Broken Horses: Vidhu Vinod Chopra on his first Hollywood film

Vidhu Vinod Chopra is an acclaimed Indian film director, screenwriter and producer. He was born in Kashmir and studied film making at the Film & Television Institute, Pune. His first documentary, An Encounter With Faces, highlighted the plight of India's destitute children. It was nominated for an Oscar in the Documentary Short Subject category in 1978.

Since then, Vinod has directed films like Khamosh, Parinda, 1942 – A Love Story, Mission Kashmir and Eklavya – The Royal Guard. Of these, Parinda and Eklavya – The Royal Guard were nominated as India's official entries to the Oscars in the Best Foreign Film category in 1989 and 2007 respectively.

After the success of Mission Kashmir, Vinod decided to produce films and encourage new directorial talent. The result: 3 idiots, Lage Raho Munna Bhai and Munna Bhai MBBS with Rajkumar Hirani, Parineeta with Pradeep Sarkar and Ferrari Ki Sawaari with Rajesh Mapuskar. Each a critically acclaimed film and a box-office success.

Vinod is making his English language directorial debut with Broken Horses, an epic thriller set in the shadows of the US-Mexico gang wars; a story about bonds of brotherhood, the laws of loyalty and the futility of violence. Vinod's team on Broken Horses includes Oscar®-nominated Tom Stern (The Hunger Games Changeling, and Million Dollar Baby) as the Director of Photography, Toby Corbett (Crossing Over, Bad Lieutenant) as Production Designer, Emmy-nominated Mary Vogt (Men In Black 3, Batman Returns) as Costume Designer and Todd E. Miller (The Expendables 2, The Mechanic) as Editor.

The latest release from Vidhu Vinod Chopra's banner is P.K., a satirical science fiction comedy film directed by Rajkumar Hirani and starring Aamir Khan and Anushka Sharma. The film has earned worldwide acclaim and emerged as the highest-grossing Indian film of all time and ranks as the 66th highest grossing film of 2014 worldwide.

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