Uma was the younger sister of the siblings Krishna Kapoor (wife of Raj Kapoor), Prem Nath and Rajendranath. Noted writer-director Lekh Tandon brought the proposal of Uma for marriage to Prem. The brothers had given warning to their respective wives that only if their sister is happy, would they be happy and Prem considers his sister to be his first daughter. Soon after he made his debut film, his mother was diagnosed with mouth cancer and she died, leaving his then nine-year-old sister Anju to be looked after by his father and his four other brothers. At his father's insistence, he completed his graduation and then went to Bombay (present-day Mumbai). He took part in college dramatics enthusiastically. Ĭhopra completed his schooling and college from Shimla after his father, who was a government servant, got transferred there. His father desired for him to be a doctor or an Indian Administrative Services Officer. After the partition of India, his family moved to Simla, where he was brought up. Chopra, the third of six children of Ranbir Lal and Rooprani Chopra, a Punjabi Hindu family, was born on 23 September 1935, in Lahore.
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