Smriti Mundhra successfully convinced Aditya Chopra to be part of The Romantics. Smriti said that it took a long time to convince Aditya calling the process ‘a slow one’. She was speaking to him on ‘background to get the context on the story’. The Romantics director Smriti Mundhra explained how she convinced camera-shy producer Aditya Chopra to participate in the