Producer : Hiroo Yash Johar , Karan Johar
Production House : Dharma Productions
Director : Shakun Batra
Cast : Rishi Kapoor , Siddarth Malhotra, Fawad Khan , Alia
Bhatt , Ratna Pathak Shah And Rajat Kapoor.
Overview : Kapoor And Sons is a family oriented movie as
expected from Karan Johar production House . It has many flavours , Like a Hot
and Sour Soup .
Story Line : The story revolves round Rahul(Fawad Khan ) and
Arjun (Siddarth Malhotra ) who are brothers living entirely different lives in
London and New Jersey . While Rahul is established as a successful writer .
Arjun who also aspires to be a writer but is still struggling to find a right
job . He keeps shuffling work . They have a family home in Coonoor consisting
of Dadu (Rishi Kapoor ) , Mother Sarita (Ratna Pathak Shah) and Father Harsh
( Rajat Kapoor ) . A call about 90 year
old Dadu brings both brother’s home .
It’s a dysfunctional family which doesn’t think twice before
yelling at each other , each family member have mind of their own . Similarly
not everything is right between the brother’s especially when the younger one
has grown up in the shadow of a perfect successful big brother , He feels he
is treated as a loser . Sarita ( Ratna
Pathak Shah) , is a jealous and tired house wife whose desire to become a
caterer but her dreams are shattered as her husband loses all money saved by
her in setting up his own business leaving his bank job , There is tension
between husband and wife due to this and other factor too of infidility by
Harsh , he is having an affair with his friend . The whole family is sitting on
a time bomb with explosions to happen any minute. Rishi Kapoor dadu tries to ease the tension
with his humorous jokes and his dramatized emotions . He wants to have a happy
family portrait . . Amidst this enters neighbour Tia (Alia Bhatt) who meets
each of the brother’s separately , her heart beats naturally for the long
lashed matured Rahull but she gets along better with the easy going and boyish Arjun
.
A spat over a game of cards at the grand father’s 90th
birthday takes place at the same time as a blow up between Harsh and Sunita .
Both cancel each other out . This spat also leads to revelation of lies which
each member have said to each other even
Rahul the perfect one reveals his secret and perfectly displays his
vulnerability . After this thunder a storm takes place that shakens the
whole family , and no its not grandfather , What happens next is for the
audience to watch .
Performances : Rishi Kapoor is at his best , He is doing so
cute roles now in his 2nd
innings that makes you fall in love with him .Ratna Pathak Shah displays both her ire and vulnerability in
ways that makes her hurt more human than anyone around . Fawad Khan demonstrate his character with grace and
sentiments , His looks are killing .
Siddarth Malhotra has played his part perfectly as young
immature brother Alia Bhatt gives freshness to the film with displaying her
bubbly part and her tragic part perfectly blending them . She is like sunshine
in the movie .
Music is good and soothing and rocking too .
Shakun Batra has very
well directed the movie , it has good screenplay , though it drags a bit in
first half but 2nd half is fast paced . He has portrayed that there
is no family as perfect family , there are dysfunctional family too . But
family bonding is still there , he displays that its ok to voice your indifferences nothing wrong but family bonding is important
.
Final Word : Kapoor and Sons is an emotional roller coaster
but also features the intricacies of a middle class life . A fantastic family
drama after a long time .
Verdict : Do watch it with your family
Rating : 3.5*/5*
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