The Netflix show, The Romantics, was released recently on the occasion of Valentine’s Day. It talks about the glorious history of Yash Raj Films (YRF), as narrated by its founder, the late Yash Chopra, and many other prominent celebrities of Bollywood. Believe it or not, Yash Chopra’s son Aditya Chopra also makes a rare appearance in this show and gives out some fascinating trivia.
In this Bollywood Hungama special feature, we bring you 25 memorable quotes uttered by various celebrities in the four-episode series.
1. “Yeh mat puchiyega ki Salman Khan ki shaadi kab hogi!” – Salim Khan
2. “After sex, cinema is the best form of entertainment in the world!” – Rishi Kapoor
3. “Yash Chopra showed a lifestyle, glamour and I was really fascinated as a child. I would wonder, “Do people really go to a 5-star hotel to just have coffee?’” – Manish Malhotra
4. “When I was approached for Kabhi Kabhie, I didn’t want to do the film. I felt that if they gave me Neetu’s role, I would do that. Yash ji said, ‘That’s a girl’s role. How can I give that to you?’. I said, “You make it into a male role’!” – Rishi Kapoor
5. “Amitabh Bachchan made some brilliant films. But by the time I was growing up, he was making the cinema, which perhaps a young guy wasn’t so inclined towards. There were lovely beautiful women and men talking romance and poetry. My mom loved them, my sister loved them. Everybody around us loved them. But I was like, ‘Why is Mr Bachchan playing a poet? Why can’t he beat up people?’” – Shah Rukh Khan
6. “Yash ji was so low that he didn’t know how to approach Sridevi for Chandni. So he asked my brother (Boney Kapoor) to speak to her. My brother flew down to Chennai and spoke to her mother. It didn’t matter to her who is Yash Chopra, who has made such great films. It was just the money, you know!” – Anil Kapoor
7. “A prominent critic asked me, ‘How come you are making this movie (Chandni)? Vinod Khanna is in this film and there’s no action. There are no highlights in the movie. If you think a fight is a highlight, I feel a song is a highlight. It's a bigger highlight because a song remains with you after you go out of the theatre” – Yash Chopra
8. “Yash ji knew that if Chandni didn’t work, he was going to close shop. He knew this is his last bullet” – Rishi Kapoor
9. “One of the distributors of Chandni rang me up. He didn’t want to release the picture. When Chandni was premiered, a lot of messages passed through the country – ‘Another flop is coming. Don’t give them theatres’” – Yash Chopra
10. “Aditya Chopra won every dance competition year after year. Who was number 2 to him? Hrithik Roshan!” – Karan Johar
11. “Till about I was 8 or 9 years old, I actually thought everybody makes films! Because I only met film people” – Aditya Chopra
12. “Adi was assisting Yash ji in Chandni. But no one gave any importance to him” – Rishi Kapoor
13. “Audiences accepted about 16,000 feet of Lamhe. They were with the film. They were enjoying every moment. But they didn’t digest the last 500 feet of the film” – Yash Chopra
14. “Darr was an aggressive film. In today’s time and age, I think I’d be behind bars if I did a role like that!” (laughs) – Shah Rukh Khan
15. “I walked upto Shah Rukh and told him, ‘I feel you are hesitant to say no. You might choose not to do this film (Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge) which is completely fine. But I would just advise you not to shut your doors on never doing a love story. Because in this country, a superstar will only be that person who will be every mother's son, every sister's brother and every college girl's fantasy’” – Aditya Chopra
16. “According to me, Hindi cinema is before Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and after Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, in terms of how a hero treated the heroine” – Anupam Kher
17. “Imagine a company like YRF, which has probably launched the most newcomers, and we could not make Uday Chopra a star! Why could we not do it for our own? Because the bottom line is, only an audience will decide, ‘I like this person and I want to see this person’. No one else can decide that” – Aditya Chopra
18. “Uday Chopra is a very talented actor. He’s very hard working. But for whatever reason, the audience did not want to see him the way he wanted to see himself. They loved him in comedy, but he didn’t want to do comedy” – Aditya Chopra
19. “I created my own country in my head. It’s called ‘Ankert’. And I had a whole history of how it came about. You know this immigrant from Greece, and then there's this dictator. It was like a democratic monarchy” – Uday Chopra
20. “Mujhse Dosti Karoge didn't do well. And that's the best thing that could have happened to me” – Aditya Chopra
21. “There were three pillars of Hindi films like everybody used to say and that you can’t do without, which are drama, emotion and romance. I said I am going to remove these three pillars and see what happens (laughs)! With Dhoom, I wanted to make a film where I wanted to combine Manmohan Desai and Michael Bay” – Aditya Chopra
22. “In Dhoom, I spent more money on bikes than on Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham, Uday Chopra!” – Aditya Chopra
23. “Aditya Chopra told me, ‘When I saw your audition, I saw a 25-year career in front of me. I've not seen an audition like that’…And he was like, ‘So, we’ve decided to go with you’. (gets moist-eyed) I slumped down to my knees and started crying” – Ranveer Singh
24. “I was only 19 when I signed my first film (Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi). Adi did not want anybody to know that I was the lead actor. Everything was under wraps. Nobody knew about it. In the office, no one was allowed to tell each other. It was that big a secret. It was a huge secret. And Adi literally said to me, ‘You can’t tell anybody. You cannot even tell your parents’! I said, ‘Huh? I have to tell my parents. I live with my mom. How can I not tell them?'” (laughs) – Anushka Sharma
25. (On why he didn’t postpone Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi after the 26/11 attacks) “I thought the film would be fine. And more importantly, I believed that people would want to see this film. They’d want to be happy. They’d want a life-affirming, feel-good film. I decided to take the risk and that I would not change the release date… It also came from my innate sense of confidence in the people of this country. Nothing can shake Indians. We’re the most resilient people” – Aditya Chopra
Also Read: YRF centric The Romantics docu-series debuts at No. 2 on Netflix in India
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