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The Romantics: Aditya Chopra speaks about how he got rid of his western sensibilities to focus on becoming a Hindi film director

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Aditya Chopra speaks about how he had to get rid of his Western sensibilities by throwing away English song CDs to focus on becoming a Hindi film director!

The much-talked-about Netflix docu-series The Romantics, which is a tribute to the legacy of Yash Chopra, YRF, and its cultural impact on India and Indians for the past 50 years, was released on February 14. In the docu-series, Aditya Chopra speaks about how he had to get rid of his Western sensibilities by throwing away English song CDs to focus on becoming a Hindi film director!

The Romantics: Aditya Chopra speaks about how he got rid of his western sensibilities to focus on becoming a Hindi film director

The Romantics: Aditya Chopra speaks about how he got rid of his western sensibilities to focus on becoming a Hindi film director

Aditya Chopra says, “I think was 14 or 15, I was watching a movie, and the film was a direct copy of an English film I had seen. And strangely I felt that this is the filmmaker that I’m going to become and it scared me because I was not watching anything Indian, I was watching a lot of Hollywood movies. I was actually listening to only English music.”

He adds, “I realised I’m never going to be able to connect to the common man because I’m so away from him. So I started to force myself into becoming more desi in a strange way. I used to have a huge drawer of English CDs. Bruce Springsteen, Wham, you know that kind. I remember I just picked up all my CDs and I threw them away!”

Aditya Chopra further says, “I went to the music store and I bought just whichever were the latest films coming, the musical albums. So, this was my induction to myself saying, I’m going to induct myself into India.”

The filmmaker also speaks about his idea about India and Indians which makes him inspired to make movies. Aditya says, “I think Indian Cinema represents Indians and Indians as people are people who constantly aspire to be more than they are. I think my dad represented that. A person who came from nowhere and when he gets the opportunity, he wants to show his fellow Indians, a world which is better.”

The Romantics has been directed by Oscar & Emmy-nominated filmmaker Smriti Mundhra.

ALSO READ: The Romantics trends globally on Netflix; director Smriti Mundhra says, “I cannot say that I expected it to be this intense”


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