What was not possible for all TV channels, YouTube channels, newspapers in India; That was made possible thanks to Netflix's four-part documentary 'The Romantics'. Interview with Aditya Chopra, the leader, director, producer of India's biggest production house.
A man gave his last interview almost 20 years ago. After that he never came in front of the camera again, he is not in the promotion of his movie, not in any party, not anywhere. Still he is there with his name, with his production house. Even if he makes movies himself, he is there to help others make movies - but of course behind the scenes.
Surprisingly, Aditya Chopra is very spontaneous in front of the camera. It was great to hear him. He continued to speak, every word carefully composed. He is a shining example of how good a person's understanding of commercial cinema can be.
Aditya Chopra used to listen only to English music and watch English movies in his youth. When he decided to make a film in his own country, he threw away all English records in one day and started listening to whatever music he could find in his mother tongue. Because in the language in which you are going to make a movie, you need to connect with that language and the people of that language first.
He brought many changes. While Yash Chopra used to write movie scripts in Urdu, Aditya Chopra used to write scripts in English. would take multiple takes, whereas his father would do nothing else if he got it right. He always listened to his own mind, even if it was wrong. After listening to her, director Suraj Barjatia dropped a few songs from 'Hum Aapke Hai Kaun', resulting in the film becoming a huge commercial success. While making 'Lamhe', he felt that this movie would not do well at the box office. Didn't really.
What Aditya Chopra likes most is understanding his timing, understanding the audience's pulse. Fusion of East with West and through it capturing the Non Resident Indian or NRI audience market. Again when the time changed he shot the movie in Heartland India, pitched the story there, came back from the song shoot in Switzerland. He also has great foresight. After the skyrocketing success of DDLZ, he could have bought many more cars and houses with that money. But he asked his father to make a film studio.
The failure of his own directed movie 'Befikre', his failure to make his brother Uday Chopra a star even after trying so hard, he has accepted everything excellently and admitted it without any hesitation. At the end of the day, the ultimate public has taken for granted that no one can hold back what they want to see on screen.
One thing is clear from this documentary, The Man Aditya Chopra is All About Films. At a young age, he used to write down everything from the release date to the box office collection of every released movie in his diary, and now he goes to all the cinemas and secretly watches them. His vision is about how the audience reacts to a movie. Another thing I like very much, Aditya Chopra never went to any award program after receiving 10 Filmfare Awards for his first movie. 'How many awards did I get, how many awards did he get?' - He didn't get stuck in this numbers game.
Ending with a line said by Aditya Chopra - 'For a film making family, your only identity is your FILM.'
PS- The 1976 Yash Chopra-directed movie Kaavi Kaavi was probably the first Hindi movie to be released in a theater in Los Angeles. From then on, Yash Chopra's films began to flourish.
There was an Indian distributor living in Los Angeles, named Jagmon Mundhara. This person also owned a theater where Kavi Kavi was released.
Jagmon Mundhara's daughter Smriti Mundhara produced the four-part Netflix documentary The Romantics.
History repeats itself. Time probably goes back like this!
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