Hello everyone and welcome to Unspooled Top 3.

I'm Amy Nicholson and I am Paul Sheer and today we are going to have a different type of top three

because we're going to have a conversation about really a giant piece of cinema history.

We're going to be talking about the romance film as it pertains to Hindi films and not Bollywood films.

We'll get into that in a little bit but these are movies that really have defined a culture.

I think it's a perfect time to talk about these beautiful films as Valentine's Day is coming up.

And today we'll be talking to an amazing director, Smichri Mundra.

She is the executive producer and creator of Netflix's reality TV series Indian Matchmaking.

She also directed two episodes of Never Have I Ever.

She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject and she is releasing a brand new documentary called The Romantics,

which is a tribute to the late Yash Chopra who is regarded as the father of romance in Indian cinema.

I'm very excited that Smichri is here because I personally feel like I have so much to learn about this genre.

So that an expert is great.

And also I really need to ask her some questions about Indian Matchmaking because I know you love that show.

Having her said show, I got very obsessed.

So I'm so glad that she's here.

Smichri Mundra, welcome to Ansplur.

So, Smichri, we have so many questions that we want to ask you about India, about the film culture there,

about a country that loves romance, which I think is so perfect for the mood that we're in right now.

Tell us about this documentary, The Romantics, this documentary series that you have on Netflix.

Yeah, so The Romantics is a four-part documentary series that is sort of a look at the history of Indian cinema

through the lens of Yash Chopra and Aditya Chopra.

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