The Romantics
2023
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Smriti Mundhra is an American filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her production company, Meralta Films, specializes in documentary films and non-fiction content. Mundhra won the Albert Maysles New Documentary Director Award at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival for her first feature documentary film A Suitable Girl, along with her co-director Sarita ...
Smriti Mundhra is known for Indian Matchmaking (2020), St. Louis Superman (2019) and Never Have I Ever (2020).
- Director, Producer, Writer
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Apr 21, 2023 · Smriti Mundhra began pitching her reality TV dating show around 2008. Several media companies rejected it as too "niche" before the show found a home on Netflix. It's now entering...
- Eric Deggans
Jun 13, 2023 · For the series’ brainchild, documentary filmmaker Smriti Mundhra, who serves as executive producer on the show, the Emmys are about enhancing visibility of the stories she wants to tell.
- What Is Netflix's The Romantics About?
- Tracing Yash Chopra's Legacy
- The Onset of Modern Hindi Rom-Coms
- A Broader Picture of Bollywood and Its People
The docuseries, fittingly released on Valentine's Day, is an homage to Chopra, his studio, and his dedication to portraying love onscreen. Directed by Smriti Mundhra, the Oscar-nominated creative who also made Indian Matchmaking, The Romanticsis a four-part, in-depth examination of Chopra's legacy, his penchant for romantic films, but also the mamm...
Interspersed with these personal accounts is archival footage of the many films developed by Chopra, his son Aditya, and Yash Raj Films. In the first episode "The Boy from Jalandhar," viewers are taken through Chopra's beginnings as an auteur, from his debut Dhool Ka Phool (1959) to the commercial success of Deewaar (1975), through to romantic-dram...
The purveyor of present-day romantic films, Aditya Chopra himself appears in a rare interview in the series. This development has been the source of much tabloid anticipation in India in the weeks leading up to Netflix's release. The director, who worked alongside his father but is known to have heightened the family's productions, last spoke to th...
Like many of Chopra's films and the works under the Yash Raj banner, The Romanticsveers into painting an aspirational, rose-tinted image of the industry and its stars. But conversations about nepotism, privilege, successes, and failures arise in episode 3, "The Guard," which more holistically approaches the industry by honing in on its realities. E...
- Meera Navlakha
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Meet Smriti Mundhra, a subversive storyteller and creator of Indian Matchmaking - Hindustan Times. By Natasha Rego. Sep 05, 2022 07:19 PM IST. She’s created Indian Matchmaking, directed episodes...
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Feb 15, 2023 · Smriti Mundhra, the creator of “Indian Matchmaking,” has launched a show called “The Romantics” on Netflix just in time for Valentine’s Day. The docuseries centers on a bastion of Hindi ...
