Fawad Khan's role was offered to Akshay Kumar and then to Saif Ali Khan. This 2016 family drama stars Sidharth Malhotra, Fawad Khan, Alia Bhatt, Rishi Kapoor, Ratna Pathak Shah, Rajat Kapoor, and Anahita Uberoi. The film was produced by Hiroo Yash Johar, Karan Johar, and Apoorva Mehta and directed by Shakun Batra. The screenplay was written by Shakun Batra and Ayesha Devitre Dhillon. Amidst these confusions, a rift occurs between the brothers because of a girl. They discover that their parent's marriage is on the verge of collapse and the financial crunch the family is in. Unlike its run-of-the-mill soundtrack, the writing, especially the astutely written lines that reveal everything in between if you can only read is another thing I liked about Kapoor & Sons.Kapoor & Sons is about two brothers who return home to meet their ailing grandfather. But his response in his most significant scene with his mother - when he learns what he does - is terribly self-conscious and almost negligible in impact.
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And when the movie isn’t trying to convince us he’s the next J D Salinger, he indeed conveys the offhand tone of his mildly rebellious character and works up easy chemistry around Alia. Sidharth Malhotra doesn’t look the part of an aspiring novelist. It’s time one acknowledged the talent beyond that ridiculously good-looking face. Pathak Shah displays both ire and vulnerability in ways that makes her hurt and folly more human than anyone around her.įawad Khan demonstrates what wonderful tools are grace and sentiment when baring oneself to the camera. Kapoor, looking a bit like Jim Broadbent under layers of skilful prosthetics, has a field day mocking the most talked-about aspect of his father’s 1985 offering.
Rishi Kapoor, Ratna Pathak Shah and Fawad Khan top the podium of scene-stealers. No problem for the naturally spunky actress. The baggage its principal characters lug around is balanced off by her froth, her silly 'size' jokes and romantic impulses.
There are characters we never see or only sparingly - Timmy, Anu, Boobly and all the miscellaneous Kapoors that render the story a reality outside the visible.Īlia Bhatt’s presence acts as sunshine in Kapoor & Sons even if she’s not central to story nor a catalyst. Batra weaves a fine moment around it when they all gather in their cosy Coonoor home to chuckle and chatter about everything from old photo albums and family recipes to potty-themed challenges and Himalay Ki God Mein sing-alongs. The only thing that binds the Kapoor kin together is nostalgia. He’s lived long enough to devalue the present and not waste his energy in tying himself into knots over disappointments, jealousy, guilt or regrets.
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The senior-most Kapoor (Rishi Kapoor) in the household, at 90, is a lively old man and the only one with a sense of humour - quite a raunchy one at that - in a room full of hostile people. Their father Mr Kapoor (Rajat Kapoor’s dignified in his though vanquished could still argue) grumbles about the weak finances but never has the last word around his indignant wife (Ratna Pathak Shah) whom he’s obviously wronged. Except that I knew about this 'secret' all along and it’s not the reveal but his handling of it that deserves kudos. One harbours resentment over a dark betrayal the other holds a personal secret. His older brother, Rahul (Fawad Khan), based in London, is a calm, cultured best-selling author. There’s Arjun, the quintessential black sheep, a wannabe writer who’s down from New Jersey after learning about his grandfather’s heart attack. He’s talking about what would have been named The One Where Grandpa Kapoor Is Gifted A Mandakini Cut-Out On His 90th Birthday if not for a public spat between his endlessly warring parents. 'My family fights all the time but this is the first time they fought in public,' is Arjun’s (Sidharth Malhotra) embarrassed admission to Tia (Alia Bhatt). Batra recognises the humour in the hopeless and taps it delightfully for an episode that’s best described as The One With The Plumber. On occasions, things get so out of hand, they begin to seem funny. That jittery feeling of playing a mute spectator to a loud, ugly quarrel is how authentic the fight sequences in Kapoor & Sons get. It’s a remarkably active screenplay there must have been pages and pages, filled with a constant flurry of breathing, breathless folk - angry at one another, angry with themselves.