The Romantics is a 2023 documentary series, created by Smriti Mundhra and Michael T Vollmann. The four-part series explores the impact of Yash Chopra, his son Aditya Chopra, and their company Yash Raj Films on Hindi Cinema.
Contents
List of films featured
Featured interviews
Chopra family
Yash Chopra (archival footage)
Aditya Chopra
Pamela Chopra
Uday Chopra
Rani Mukerji
Karan Johar
Other Actors
Dharmendra Deol
Amitabh Bachchan
Vinod Khanna
Mithun Chakraborty
Rishi Kapoor
Sunny Deol
Anil Kapoor
Juhi Chawla
Jackie Shroff
Mohnish Bahl
Madhuri Dixit
Arjun Rampal
Ajay Devgn
Saif Ali Khan
Salman Khan
Aamir Khan
Shah Rukh Khan
Hrithik Roshan
Karishma Kapoor
Abhishek Bachchan
Sanjay Dutt
Govinda Ahuja
Manisha Koirala
Sunil Shetty
Arshad Warsi
Sushmita Sen
Bobby Deol
Akshaye Khanna
Dino Morea
Aftab Shivdasani
Filmmakers, choreographers, and writers
Vijay Krishna Acharya
Sooraj Barjatya
Anupama Chopra
Salim Khan
Manish Malhotra
Vaibhavi Merchant
Namrata Rao
Maneesh Sharma
Lilly Singh
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 83% of 6 critics' reviews are positive.
Suchin Mehrotra of Hindustan Times in his review stated "The Romantics works best when it uses the YRF filmography merely as a stepping-off point to discuss Hindi cinema as a whole. The show comes to us at a time when it feels like filmmakers are looking back and celebrating what was." A reviewer for Indian Express stated "It’s all rah-rah, hardly any nose-digs, but then you don’t really expect any in a series like this, about the biggest, most storied production house in Hindi cinema." Renuka Vyavahare of The Times of India rated the first season 4 stars out of 5 and remarked "The Romantics is a treat to watch if you love Hindi cinema and Yash Chopra, which are pretty much synonymous." Shubham Kulkarni from Koimoi rated 4/5 and wrote "The Romantics is an ode to the man who defined Hindi cinema for decades and even died with his director’s hat on."