Director-producer Yash Chopra’s wife Pamela Chopra passed away on Thursday, at the age of 74. She had been at Mumbai's Lilavati hospital for the past 15 days due to some age-related issues
Pamela Chopra known for being a playback singer, was last seen in Dharma Productions’ The Romantics on Netflix where she spoke about her journey with the Yash Raj Films (YRF) production house and her life with her husband Yash Raj who passed away in 2012
Pamela Chopra’s last rites were performed by her sons Aditya Chopra and Uday Chopra at the Pawan Hans crematorium in Vile Parle, Mumbai. Her daughter-in-law, actress Rani Mukherjee was also present
A number of Bollywood stars such as Shah Rukh Khan who was last seen in the YRF movie Pathaan, his son Aaryan Khan, and Hrithik Roshan who will be seen in War 2 paid their last respects to Pamela
Pamela Chopra was the writer of one of Yash Chopra’s biggest hits, Kabhie Kabhie, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Rakhee. She was also credited as the co-writer for the 1997 hit 'Dil To Pagal Hai', along with Yash Chopra, Aditya Chopra and Tanuja Chandra
In the Netflix documentary, The Romantics, Uday Chopra said, “My mother had a really good sense of music and song. We have this gadda (mattress) room in our house, the music room, which was specifically created for a creatively inducive environment"
Pamela Chopra had also appeared on the big screen once, for the opening song 'Ek Duje Ke Vaaste' from 'Dil To Pagal Hai'. Yash Chopra accompanied her on-screen
Simi Grewal has been credited with helping Yash Chopra and Pamela meet. During one of the media interviews, Simi recalled that Pamela was a huge fan of Punjabi music and dance performances and was partly responsible for bringing Punjabi music to Bollywood
Pamela Chopra is known for singing some of Hindi cinema's most iconic songs including 'Main sasural nahi jaaongi' from Chandni, ‘Ghara aaja pardesi’ from DDLJ, ‘Jo vaada kiya tha’ from Silsila and more