Is Aditya Chopra stuck in the 90s?

Sometimes I feel his films are riding on a nostalgic trip and that he doesn't really understand modern. Like he is out of touch. Not with every film he does but for the most part, it seems. What do you think?

He's a recluse. + He is probably not a friendly boss to his young directors and ADs. So, he doesn't have any idea about the mentality of today's youth.

@dahee I think so too. Sometimes his films give me the vibe that he looked up something on the internet once and decided he could make a film out of it.
Like a relative that tries to understand some new dance craze or slang. They aren't "hip" to it.

there should be equal balance between modren and 90's kind of films ...i dont watch any new bollywood film perhaps i only watch which have 90's vibe to it like prem ratan dhan payo ...modern is another word for vulgarity which i dont like to see in films ...so he may get niche audeince like me

Yes...he is stuck in 1 phase

On the contrary.

^ Yeah I agree. Everything went down hill with the stupid double wedding resolution but a lot of the conversational syntax & staging actually felt pretty fresh. The way Nashe Si was filmed actually captured two people vibing with each other and not "look at us performing" for the audience. Admitting you only lashed out by calling someone a s**t because you felt insecure about your own experiences, & even the dialogues about some boyfriends being a reward for the awful boyfriends you've been put through, or a punishment for how you've treated others actually felt pretty current and indicative of the way people I know actually talk.

But I think the dialogues were done by Sharat Katariya & not Adi C, which is why they weren't terrible. Aditya Chopra is a decent director but awful story writer. And Befikre had awful plotting.

PS Ranveer's character greatly needed some redeeming, don't think I've seen as unrepentantly awful a romantic interest ever. He sold it on charm and abs in the second half.

Originally posted by: iambest

there should be equal balance between modren and 90's kind of films ...i dont watch any new bollywood film perhaps i only watch which have 90's vibe to it like prem ratan dhan payo ...modern is another word for vulgarity which i dont like to see in films ...so he may get niche audeince like me

Wasn't Befikre very modern?

Originally posted by: iambest

there should be equal balance between modren and 90's kind of films ...i dont watch any new bollywood film perhaps i only watch which have 90's vibe to it like prem ratan dhan payo ...modern is another word for vulgarity which i dont like to see in films ...so he may get niche audeince like me

Modern doesn't exactly mean vulgar. I mean modern in the sense that the story connects with the times of today. Which doesn't have to be vulgar at all.

I am not a big fan of his writing. All the movies apart from DDLJ that he has wrote has been very poor and boring to me.