The Romantics released in February 2023, is a beautiful and sweet documentary that is woven around the India’s leading production house ‘Yash Raj Films’. The documentary has cast of diverse Bollywood actors like Shah Rukh, Ayushman, Amitabh and Aditya being the main story teller. The documentary has received many appreciations of social media, with several bollywood lovers calling it as must watched. The documentary has received 8.0 rating on Imdb.
The documentary is divided into 4 episodes. The first episode is ‘The boy from Jalandhar’ shows the background of Yash Raj Chopra and family. Yash was born in Jalandhar and moved to mumbai with his elder brother BR Chopra with dream of becoming film director. Later he parted ways and established his own production house. The first episode focus on initial struggles and success of Yash Raj Chopra in Indian cinema.
The second part is ‘Prodigal Son’. This part shows light how Yash groomed his son Aditya and Uday for film making. While Uday later shows in interest in acting, Aditya came out to be the wonderful director. He had a hidden talent and strong internal senses. Most of Aditya’s judgement were right and sometime proved Yash wrong. At this stage, Yash Raj realised the Aditya can take the legacy of YRF ahead. Aditya’s first and debutant film ‘Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenga’ came out to be huge success. It is one the most successful movie in history of Bollywood. This movie puts Aditya as a successful director and brings huge monetary benefits to YRF.
Third part is ‘The new guard’. It focus on how Aditya slowly took over office and take YRF to new heights. He filmed first action movie and tried new genres. With success of Dhoom franchise, Yash belief in his son Aditya become more firm.
The last part was a very emotional end to Yash’s journey. He died while shooting his last movie Jab tak hai Jaan. He indicated this in his last few interviews that this will be the last movie. The later half of the episode focus on vision of Aditya for YRF and how he is preparing new age directors, producers and actors for the future.
Manan Rangbulla 