The Romantics is a tribute to Yash Chopra's magical world of cinema but also an outright advertisement of the Yash Raj Films' slate of cinema. The later becomes pretty obvious during the second half of the show.
It is an entertaining journey along memory lanes if you ignore the layer of self-promotion. There are some anecdotes which are very interesting specially the first couple of episodes when it talks primarily about Yash Chopra's magic and romanticism (justifying the title). Some sublime and emotional moments when actors share their experiences about working on a set with him. But as the show progresses and it dives into the more commercial side of the production house itself the show for me starts to get boring.
After a while it becomes very hard to ignore the fact that this show is just bankrolled by this producer family to boast about their own successful films and how that makes them geniuses.
For me the show would have worked better if it had sticked to Yash Chopra and his craft and magic or, as the name suggest, to his "Romantic" world.
It is an entertaining journey along memory lanes if you ignore the layer of self-promotion. There are some anecdotes which are very interesting specially the first couple of episodes when it talks primarily about Yash Chopra's magic and romanticism (justifying the title). Some sublime and emotional moments when actors share their experiences about working on a set with him. But as the show progresses and it dives into the more commercial side of the production house itself the show for me starts to get boring.
After a while it becomes very hard to ignore the fact that this show is just bankrolled by this producer family to boast about their own successful films and how that makes them geniuses.
For me the show would have worked better if it had sticked to Yash Chopra and his craft and magic or, as the name suggest, to his "Romantic" world.