Kapoor & Sons offers cent percent entertainment but beyond that it also serves as a powerful lesson on the importance of relationships in our lives.

This mix of old-world family drama told in a new-age way with contemporary and young nuances does hit the right chords off and on, but overall, the script changes graph jerkily in the second half just when we feel things are trekking back to course slowly for the harangued characters.

Like the family its penetrates , Kapoor & Sons  neither purports to be  a perfect nor a seamless family drama. It does something far valuable. It takes all the flaws and imperfections of a dysfunctional family and transcreates them into a drama of muted grievances and unspoken recriminations.

The humour balances out the uneasiness. The joy of celebration temporarily delays the members from facing the music. You are reminded of all the times hushed conversations snuffed problems in corridors and every time we have all found respite in an escape than resolve in a confrontation. At the same time, the family is not wholly forgiving and keeps it human that way!

‘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 Khush Kabhi Gham’ sans over the top drama.

‘Kapoor & Sons’ isn’t flawless but those are absolutely ignorable. And with the perfect ingredients mixed, this platter makes for a delectable watch this weekend. Go for it.

Watch Kapoor and Sons to celebrate your imperfections. Here’s a perfect ode to being imperfect…how definitions dampen life. Live in the moment and enjoy every bit of the carnival we call life. 

This is absolutely the most gut-wrenchingly personal, mainstream film on an urban Indian family that I’ve ever seen. Yet, for the number of twists and turns that take place in the plot, or the story-line as it were—between four main characters who are together for as many as four or a few more days—the film runs the risk of you zoning out eventually and noticing merely the extraneous things that make this picture so much fun after all.

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

Kapoor & Sons is an entertaining film for the youth and the families, mainly of the cities, and for the multiplex-frequenting viewers. It will not be able to do much in the single-screen cinemas and in small centres but its business in the cities and multiplexes will be big enough to make the film a hit. As it is, around 70% of the total investment has already been recovered from non-theatrical sources (satellite, music and Internet rights).

…the story manages to descend bare into the psyche of audiences with debonair imagery tied with picturesque beauty, keeping you mesmerised.

After a while, if you wish to see a congenial movie with a bottom of gravitas sans the glamour and glitz, then you must not miss ‘Kapoor and Sons’ since 1921.

Is there any family without little cracks and big gaps? In a small town of Kunoor, inside a traditional bungalow, a family faces many struggles. But there’s always love to tide things over, and that makes for a very watchable popcorn treat.

…an entertaining and touching film about our closest relationships, and the inevitable pain that arises from such closeness. However, it saves its most important message for its most attentive viewers – healing is ultimately a choice.

Kapoor and Sons beautifully delves deep into human emotions and easily makes it as one of the finest films of the year so far.  

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

Watch Kapoor & Sons for Alia Bhatt‘s naughty, funny moments, for Rishi Kapoor‘s hilariously perfect acting, for Sidharth Malhotra and Fawad Khan‘s brilliant performances. But more importantly, watch it to see a drama that is packed with emotions and tiny heart-melting moments that are sure to leave you with a smile and a hazy view. Make sure you go with your family at least once.  

Strong performances and charming characters compensate for a lack of depth and acuity in Shakun Batra’s movie.

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 you with a smile.

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.

This is a film that celebrates the dysfunctional family, gamely accepting it as a part of reality, with each member uniquely glorious with all their idiosyncrasies and imperfections.

The film suitably ends on a note that is symbolic of most families; at least the more interesting ones- they are all perfect in their imperfections.

Watch this. It might remind of your own family issues and make you a bit squirmish but is also largely feel good and entertaining.

…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, it comes across as a betrayal.

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

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.

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 warm and fuzzy moments. In most of them, a real-life Kapoor was present.

Like Piku, Batra brings the family, parent-child relationship under the scanner in Kapoor & Sons but he doesn’t quite rebel against or throw away the construct entirely. He questions the family only to reassert its primacy.

…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.

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.

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…lovable. A fantastic family drama after a long time.

…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.

Kapoor & Sons is hilarious, heartwarming and heartbreaking rolled in one. It does not wear its social conscience on its sleeve, but make no mistake about this: it has one. This is a disarmingly entertaining, thoughtful film that evokes a fuzzy feeling of warmth. It left me with wet cheeks, a smile on my face and a chuckle welling up in my throat at the memory of Daadu.

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

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!

Kapoor & Sons is an absorbing layered family drama…

Kapoor And Sons is a must watch, touching, entertaining family drama that you just can’t afford to miss. Book your tickets as soon as possible, this family entertainer is that good!

The expectations hoisted on being the perfect child in an Indian family are wonderfully told in this film.

Kapoor & Sons flourishes as a unit and is the sum total of mature performances by the entire Kapoor clan.

It’s a ticking time bomb, but one that fizzles out in the end.