Kapoor & Sons (2016)

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

The Plot:- Rishi Kapoor as the granddad, a playful old man, a practical joker (I find annoying and silly but excusable as its more about the drama) has a heart attack. His son and daughter in-law rush him to the hospital. His grandsons, one in London and the other in New Jersey were informed so they both head for Coimbature, where the drama slowly unfolds. The granddad has a childish sense of humor, which is more realistic than the soapy tears and sentimental dialogues. The parents and sons bring the fun in dysfunctional. Constantly bickering. Not much at first but after spending a few minutes together tensions are brought to the surface. Favoritism and sibling rivalry is addressed. The Arjun character taking the brunt of the unfair victimization leaves to blow off some steam. Tia played by Alia Bhatt is another joker in this film, great character but with just a couple of tiny part-faults, part boons: 1. The actor herself, I find her really annoying, do not get me wrong she has potential and chooses good roles but she's not funny. 2. She redefines gender roles which is a good thing but she's the dominating character in every role and at the same time sweet and innocent and helpless. My feelings for her is complicated lets leave it at that. Please pass the cheese as we have a girl who comes in between two brothers. Well that was what I thought at first when Tia and Arjun were supposed to kiss thanks to the clichéd spin the bottle premise. It was interrupted. Rahul looking to buy some property also finds Tia. Tia in her drunkedness kisses Rahul. Note that she did all the kissing as it will come back later. Arjun reveals to Tia about his writing aspirations and how his brother's novel seemed to have similar characters and subplots to his first draft. Tia on her birthday reveals about her parents tragic death and her last words to them. They died on their birthday. It is not love at first sight thank god but a slow and realistically blossoming romance between the two which gives it depth. Rahul crashes his dad's car. His dad was about to blame Arjun for it when Rahul steps forward and takes responsibility. The father later gave the impression that he was at the garage getting the car serviced.Climax: Skip this part if you haven't watched the movie. When granddad is discharged from the hospital a welcome party was initiated. Sunitha the mother or jealous wife in this case makes a scene when her husbands female colleague shows up, party cancelled. Rahul explains that he invited said person and generally takes his father's side on this matter. Tia said she had to tell Rahul something, you know what that means? Meanwhile Sunitha was going through Rahul's PC. Rahul and his uncle were traveling in a car when Rahul seeing something suspicious gets out of the car and sends his uncle away. He goes to investigate. What he saw was his father's car with that dent in it from the crash earlier, in the driveway of the woman Sunitha suspects her husband of having an affair with. The infidelity is true as it turns out. Also Sunithaji aap ka beta gay hai=Sunitha ma'am your son is gay. Sunitha confronts Rahul about his homosexuality which by the way hats of to the director who understands that the typical gay stereotype is just that, a stereotype and a gay guy or girl may in fact just behave normally. In the argument it just slips from Rahul about his father's infidelity issue. The granddad's wish about taking a family picture is explored. An argument breaks out instead. Husband and wife argue over the infidelity, siblings argue over Tia and Rahul kissing Tia when it was Tia who initiated it but she's not Rahul's type and the idea stealing as well is not what it seems. The father drives of and Sunitha was calling his cell. He picks up but a truck collides with his car and he dies and the last exchange with the family was a negative one. Sunitha finally reveals to Arjun that she gave Rahul, Arjun's book idea. Arjun came out of the closet officially. A bittersweet ending unlike the redundant happily ever after.Content: Relevant and interesting for me but two cringe-worthy scenes or discussions rather. 1.Would you eat poop for money 2. Granddad and grandsons talking about smut. A mention of cartoon porn, hentai anyone. 3. Granddad explains that he saw Ram Teri Ganga Mailli 14 times for the scene where Mandakini getting wet in a white sari by the waterfall. The joke returns later on with Arjun bringing a life size poster of Mandakini in the white wet sari. Furthermore a life size poster of the deceased father for the family picture adds to the bittersweet ending as an inside joke so this one is kind of okay. A cool scene I liked, granddad and grandsons sharing a joint. Don't do drugs however folks.In conclusion a good movie overall for the drama genre.

One of the most under-rated but surely among the best Hindi movies of 2016. It is a family drama with a tinge of comedy and romance. But what stands out is the truthfulness with which the conflicts between all characters is portrayed. I guess any viewer will be able to relate the film to his family in some way or another. Casting for all the parts seems apt. Rishi Kapoor brings forward his acting prowess playing a 90 year old grandfather. He is the eldest Kapoor but his amazing comic timing brings a lightness to the film. The two grandsons are played by Fawad Khan and Siddharth Malhotra. Both play their parts well while you might at some instances find Siddharth strained to show his emotions. Alia Bhatt does not really play a central character but her performance stands out. She is effortless in her portrayal of a myriad of emotions from fun to romantic to sad. This movie is a bit of an emotional roller-coaster and bound to leave you teary-eyed at times.

First of all if you like Bollywood masala without story then this is the one for you. Please do not consider my rating.Story .. nothing. Few comedy scenes are there to keep you awake throughout the movie. There is something in climax which I am not revealing. It is the only thing which makes you believe that movie has a story (actually there isn't if you ponder a bit). Acting is good by most of the characters. There are many stupid things. For example, Son cannot afford the hospital expense for the father who is an ex serviceman. Hello... where is free medical and other facilities for ex-servicemen??Overall, if you like selected entertaining movies, this is not a choice. If you like movies where you need to use your brain, this is not a movie for you.If you like typical monotonous movie with stupid things in it you should go for it; or if you watch all movies from "A class" banners in Bollywood, you should go for it.I would recommend not to watch with children or young as there is lot of drugs shown (even oldies take drugs!!) without any warnings in the movie.

A brilliantly written, directed, acted and edited movie that will resonate strongly with you-no matter at which end of the craziness spectrum your family behaves. From the very first scene, all the characters feel extremely real in the way they talk, dress, address each other, laugh with or at each other or even taunt each other. It feels like that character is you-or at least if not you it is someone else in your family. The director makes you feel like you are a part of that family and that sense of belonging makes you even more invested in those characters.A real film full of raw, unadulterated emotions.