Bollywood filmmaker and producer BR Chopra has died in the western Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay)at the age of 94.

Mr Chopra was best known as the producer of films like Naya Daur (1957) and The Burning Train (1980).

He also produced a successful TV serial Mahabharata, based on the Indian epic, in the late 1980s.

Mr Chopra won the Dadasaheb Phalke award, the highest honour in Indian cinema presented by the government.

Born in Punjab in undivided India, Mr

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