Episode 16: Where the hell have the Rom-Coms gone?

What if romance on screen once held our hands through feeling and belonging, and now lets go? In this episode, we linger over the slow disappearance of the romantic comedy in Bollywood and Hollywood, tracing what has been lost along the way. From starry-eyed classics to today’s hardened heroes, we ask how cinema stopped believing in love as something soft, sincere, and transformative.

Moving between nostalgia and critique, Anahita and Jesselina unpack the rise of hyper-masculinity, the flattening of emotional vulnerability, and what that shift reveals about our cultural moment. This conversation drifts through old films that shaped a generation of romantics and lands firmly in the present, questioning why heartfelt storytelling now feels so radical.

It is full of yearning for better love stories and for a cinematic language that dares to make us feel again.

(00:00) New Year reflections and our grandma hobbies

(03:12) Where did all the rom-coms go?

(09:03) Perfect actors and sanitized scripts

(16:41) Pyar Dosti Hai: how storytelling shaped social dynamics

(22:53) Early-2000s journalist women leads and their influence on women in media today

(23:46) How young people learned about desire and intimacy through rom-coms

(28:42) Missing young adult and teen stories fueling hyper-consumerism

(39:01) Rom-com gaps filled by hyper-masculine, nationalistic cinema

(45:09) The future of romantic storytelling: what needs to change

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