MUMBAI: South Korea‘s most prestigious film festival The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) has decided to honour filmmaker Yash Chopra as the ‘Asian Filmmaker of the Year‘ at this year‘s event.
The PIFF praised Chopra for making ‘remarkable contributions‘ in establishing Hindi cinema on the global stage.
"His efforts in raising the international profile of Indian movies through joint investments and co-productions with Hollywood have been highly acknowledged," the PIFF said in a statement.

India‘s leading film production company, Yash Raj Films founded by Chopra, 76, has been "a hotbed of developing new talent. His tireless five-decade long devotion has made considerable contributions to enhance the global status of Indian films as well as Asian cinema, "the PIFF said.

The festival will be held from 8 to 16 October in Busan, earlier known as Pusan.