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Kapoor & Sons

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Critic Rating

7.3

37 Reviews
29 Ratings
97%
in favor

Audience Rating

7.2
5 Reviews
35 Ratings

Movie Info

Director

Language

Hindi

Synopsis

Kapoor & Sons is a story of two brothers from a rather dysfunctional family. They both befriend the same girl, and things get a little messy when jealousy creeps in. The film plays out over a weekend vacation the family takes together.Wikipedia

Kapoor & Sons Reviews

Shubhra Gupta
Indian Express

4

Sidharth brings to the table a loose-limbed pleasing vulnerability which he reveals slowly. Fawad plays his straight, and he doesn’t lift off the screen. Rishi gets some laughs in.

Raja Sen
Rediff

6

Shakun Batra’s sophomore effort is a finely, intelligently crafted film which stumbles because of its eagerness...

'Kapoor and Sons' is a film with soul that takes you back to your roots, reminding you how much you love your 'imperfect' family in the most perfect way. It reflects upon the changing times and yet holds the ground of family-love perfectly. It brings back the feeling you get while watching 'Kabhi K ...  { more

Rohit Vats
Hindustan Times

8

For the want of a better term, Kapoor & Sons is an emotional roller coaster. It’s a tear jerker for sure, but also features the intricacies of a middle class life.No dark secrets here, but the shock value is definitely there. You’ll love it for being spontaneous, precise, fast paced and well... ...  { more

Mehul S Thakkar
Deccan Chronicle

9

...all credit goes to director Shakun, who holds together the cast like a perfect photo in an album. His sensibilities in this family drama will certainly set a new benchmark.

Kapoor & Sons is an absorbing layered family drama...

Director Shakun Batra keeps it all on a tight leash and skillfully mines the multiple conflict points as much for the humour inherent in them as for the dramatic frisson that they generate.Kapoor And Sons is intense and incisive in its observation of human inadequacies but is always entertaining.

Srijana Mitra Das
Times Of India

8

...the direction, frequently evoking Monsoon Wedding, keeps things family-focused, with a moving camera and characters in meltdown. Wicked, witty and wise, Kapoor & Sons does Karan Johar proud.Because it's about loving your family - sharp edges and all.

This family may not be happy in the beginning, but you know there’s going to be a happy family shot in the end. This might be the new-age family drama, but the message is still the one Bollywood has drilled into us all these years – it’s all about loving your family.

Reviewer Profile
DNA India

8

The Kapoors are not a perfect family, but you will love and accept them with their flaws. Go watch this one.

7

...underneath all the brilliance of Kapoor And Sons, there lies the problem of the quick-fix solution. Half of Batra's film is a lesson in embracing the imperfections and searching for a proper solution to them. Therefore, when the story uses that very hasty, knee-jerk climax to get things in place ...  { more

Kapoor And Sons is a modern-age family drama. It does not shy away from being emotionally soppy yet convincingly lovable. You could laugh, cry and smile through this one!

...makes for an excellent movie that you must watch with your entire family. This film is Beautiful kar gayi Chul!

Shakun Batra proves that there is no substitute for good writing – the story is compelling, the dialogues are well written and the casting is perfect. The music is refreshing and just blends in never disrupting the narrative.Watch ‘Kapoor & Sons’, it will make you laugh and cry and will leave y ...  { more

9

...is supple and smooth, with lots of rough edges and highs and lows. It's a perfect family movie.

Suprateek Chatterjee
HuffingtonPost.in

-

Kapoor & Sons walks the tightrope between traditional Bollywood melodrama and a more evolved variant of the same, but its balance is all over the place. As a genuine tearjerker, I found it too superficial; as a study of characters, it felt a little incomplete. All I took away was a handful of w ...  { more

Audience Reviews for Kapoor & Sons

  • Shashwat Sisodia
    Shashwat Sisodia
    300 reviews
    Top Reviewer
    8

    'Kapoor & Sons', until come anything else which is a better thing put together, is the best Hindi film of 2016. Yes, because of its deep writing, but also because of its heartwarmingly charming premise which is more consuming and absorbing than any family film Bollywood has made up. Its emotionally constructed and charming drama which lifts off in style and formation.
    Shakun Batra proves that he weaves out the best family dramas possible, even though it is his directorial debut. Starring Alia Bhatt, Siddharth Malhotra, Rishi Kapoor, Fawad Khan, Ratna Pathak Shah and Rajat Kapoor, it's about a dysfunctional family- with conflicting thoughts, cnflicting emotions, conflicting interests (and love interests), and turbulent souls. But at the end, they are a family- they are happy when they  ...
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    September 28, 19
  • Midhun Ben Thomas (Dilseben)
    Midhun Ben Thomas (Dilseben)
    160 reviews
    Top Reviewer
    6

    Just a couple of hours more before arch rivals, India & Pakistan draw swords in Eden Gardens in the mother of all clashes. So before that high stakes match, I decided to check out "Kapoor & Sons" which coincidentally also focused on clashes but within the family. Actually whichever reviews that I had written for Bollywood movies this year, it's all been enactment of real life events, so I was looking forward to check out some light-hearted mirth for quite some time & this one seemed to fit the bill. So was it able to satiate my expectations???

    Nestled in the lush green scenic beauty of Connoor was the house of Amarjeet Kapoor (Rishi Kapoor) & his family. He was a nonagenarian who was always upto some tricks to garner the attention of his son and daughter in law. Eventually ...
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    September 16, 16
  • Rakshit Raina
    Rakshit Raina
    35 reviews
    Top Reviewer
    7

    A totally compelling family drama!!

    March 23, 16
  • Shree Hari H
    Shree Hari H
    19 reviews
    Senior Reviewer
    6

    Whoever said old-school is passé probably didn’t watch Kapoor and Sons.
    Much in the vein of 2001’s Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, Kapoor and Sons is a good old-fashioned tearjerker that plays to the gallery.
    Where director Shakun Batra’s film stands out, however, is in its recognition of the need to draw a fine line between subtlety and saccharine vacuousness.
    Well, for the most part, at least.
    The film captures the ebbs and flows of modern Indian family life – in all its chaotic and tempestuous glory – with startling attention to detail.
    Fawad Khan and Siddharth Malhotra play two brothers – one a well-established writer in London, the other a struggling wannabe author who works as a part-time bartender in New Jersey to eke out a living.
    Both are summoned back to their home in the picturesque h ...
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    January 12, 17
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