Did YRF try to gaslight everyone on Netflix ? - Page 4

Till Yash Chopra was alive, YRF was a big name to reckon with ..after his passing, Adi C is doing whatever and making shit movies one after another..whether production or direction..and Befikre was pathetic for the better word of it..I will take Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (just for the sweetness and purity of love) with its Golmaal double role plotline anyday over the horrid Befikre..

it honestly surprised me that a celebratory documentary was made on YRF by netflix..in times where Bollywood itself is struggling to maintain its mantle..and South movies are the real craze.

Originally posted by: MaxMayfield

Till Yash Chopra was alive, YRF was a big name to reckon with ..after his passing, Adi C is doing whatever and making shit movies one after another..whether production or direction..and Befikre was pathetic for the better word of it..I will take Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (just for the sweetness and purity of love) with its Golmaal double role plotline anyday over the horrid Befikre..

it honestly surprised me that a celebratory documentary was made on YRF by netflix..in times where Bollywood itself is struggling to maintain its mantle..and South movies are the real craze.

When Adi talked about Befikre, he sounded like he made a masterpiece for which the audience wasn’t ready 😆

Every production house at some point ... has to go through a RESET 👍🏼

Originally posted by: pathaka

Small town films became cool from dev d , gangs of wasseypur, fukrey and dabangg….then there were all those Delhi movies like Vicky donor and band Baaja baraat which caught the flavour of Delhi well

i would add queen and khosla ka ghosla to the list too

i would say that rajshri's actually changed the game before ddlj,

and qsqt mansoor khan too

maine pyar kiya and hum aapke hain kaun were complete u turn from what hindi cinema was

ddlj was a huge phenomenon those days but it hasnt aged well for me, the romance part

befikre was crappy and uday chopra is a bad actor

the whole exercise was to show bw is doing well by hyping themselves up, i mean adi who is all against showing in public showed up, shows the desperation,

also trying to say we also made rooted films with bunty and babli

no wonder netflix is not going penetrate the interiors, they are a prop up medium for the these guys

yrf is not creating anything new and thats a fact

Originally posted by: capricornrcks

But we, the theatre-going Indian public who decide the fate of a movie do care. Middle class urban India is a long way from middle class rural India. For the longest time Bollywood movies have tried to be generic without being rooted in a town, caste or culture. It's a weakness which is being exploited by the Southern Industries, all of which are very rooted in their particular state and culture.

i think this is a very important point

nri audience and bw think showing middle class delhi is small town india,

there is another huge world out there of b-towns, villages etc

which is what a kgf, pushpa portray

I have mixed opinions about the documentary.

The first episode was BRILLIANT👏.

But they barely talked about Yashji after the second episode.

First of all, I did not understand why they kept the title 'The Romantics' . This was clearly a documentary on YRF and its journey, and not a documentary on Yash Chopra or YRF's romantic films.

They should've talked more about Yashji's associations with Salim Javed, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle etc. I hate how they skipped Yash Raj directorials like "Dil To Pagal Hai" and "Veer Zara" and talked more about lame films like Befikre and Uday Chopra's good-for-nothing career.

I also didn't like that they DID NOT talk much about the music of YRF films.

Music of YRF films has been one of the key factors behind its success. They should've talked about it more but they focused more on Aditya and his childhood/journey.

The third episode made me nostalgic and realise how the standard of movies and actors have fallen today. But the documentary also made me realise why BW keeps failing....they keep patting themselves on the back for the most mediocre of the successes. Thank God for SRK & Pathaan, it really came as a saviour for BW and yrf

They made up so many lies. So….Aditya told Anushka not to tell her parents she signed the film? I specifically remember Anushka gave an interview where she said, as soon as she left the studio after signing the film, she went into her car and called her parents. Not sure what these box office failures and trying to achieve

It was clear to me - even before watching - that The Romantics would (in no way) be a critical documentary but rather a (self-) praising one...and as a contribution to the 50 years celebration of YRF I didn't expect a critical but a celebratory one.

That's why the documentary is fine to me.

Nevertheless, I would like to watch also a critical one as I agree with some reservations expressed here.