Why is there a dearth of rom-coms in Bollywood? It’s a question cinephiles have been asking over the past few years. Sneha Desai, the writer of Junaid Khan and Khushi Kapoor-starrer Loveyapa, too feels the lack of cutesy romances. “Niche concept movies, activism films, and spectacle films have taken precedence. So when this came to me, I jumped at it,” smiles Desai, who adapted the Tamil hit, Love Today (2022), for director Advait Chandan’s latest rom-com. 

(From left) Khushi Kapoor and Junaid Khan in Loveyapa