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• Won several awards with his first student short film, titled Murder at Monkey Hill (1976).
• An Encounter with Faces (1978), a story about impoverished children, was nominated for the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject and it also received the Golden Peacock Award in Delhi.
• National Film Development Corporation aided him to make his first film Sazaye Maut (1981).
• Founded the production company Vinod Chopra Films in 1985, which has gone on to become one of India's most lucrative film companies.
• Winner of six National Film Awards.
• Producer of the most successful Indian film of all time, 3 Idiots (2009).
• Made his Hollywood debut as a director with the movie Broken Horses (2015).