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En Vogue
Yash Chopra used to get issues of Vogue magazine and go through them to find inspiration for his heroines’ costumes.
Dance off
When they were kids, Aditya Chopra and Hrithik Roshan would have mini dance competitions at parties. And the winner would invariably be…Aditya Chopra. Tragically, the footage from these parties is “unavailable”.
Spilling the tea
One of the joys of The Romantics is seeing Rishi Kapoor, with his wife Neetu, on screen. He’s characteristically blunt in his interviews and here’s our favourite quote from him: “After sex, cinema is the best form of entertainment. For Indians, at least.”
Stick to your guns
When Yash Chopra was making Lamhe (1991), the ending — which couples a man with a woman who is the daughter of his first love — gave many people the jitters. Aditya Chopra had asked his father if he’d consider changing the end. Yash Chopra told him, “I’ve made it for that end.”
Bromance between SRK and Aditya Chopra
Even though Shah Rukh Khan and Aditya Chopra are not seen together in The Romantics, it’s obvious from the way the two speak about one another that these two men share a solid bromance.
Defining a hero
Aditya Chopra put it best: “In this country, a superstar will only be that person who will be every mother’s son, every sister’s brother, every college girl’s fantasy.”
In a nutshell
When the idea of Dhoom (2004) first came about, Aditya Chopra conceived it as a mass entertainer that was entirely focused on the action spectacle and didn’t get distracted by anything else. “I wanted to make a film in which I combine Manmohan Desai and Michael Bay,” he said.
The other bromance
Speaking about Uday Chopra, who has been his childhood friend and was his co-star in the Dhoom films, Abhishek Bachchan said, “Uday was and is my teddy bear.” Ok then.