Suchin Mehrotra

in The Quint

It's also a deeply unsettling, uncomfortable film to sit through. Not because of its themes, its brutal violence or its 'monstrous' villains. But because this is a shrill, blurry, barely coherent movie that's a strong contender for the year's worst Hindi film.

in The Quint

David Dhawan’s Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai has a ratio problem. The ratio of unsurprisingly unapologetic silliness and low-hanging fruit stupidity to ‘funny’ or even mildly tolerable gags and ‘jokes’ is way off.

in The Quint

How are all these characters related to each other

in Hindustan Times

In the end, The Romantics works best when it uses the YRF filmography merely as a stepping off point to discuss Hindi cinema as a whole. Like in the opening of the fourth episode where we see our extensive roster of stars talk about their opinion of and relationship with the term “Bollywood”. The show comes to us at a time when it feels like filmmakers are looking back and celebrating what was. Alongside Cinema Marte Dum Tak and Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans, these are stories about how the movies got to where they are today and the origins of the defining storytellers responsible for them. When it isn’t swayed by personal agenda and positioning, The Romantics does just that - tells the story of the movies and captures a part of us.