Some of the conversations are so real you feel like an outsider privy to their space. Ratna Pathak and Rajat Kapoor seemed married for years.

His style of speech is impeccable for someone that old and so consistent throughout it made me forget he’s younger. When the sons and grandsons are busy squabbling over sometimes petty, sometimes serious matters, he’s the string that binds them together. The soon-to-be 90 daadu ( Rishi Kapoor) is the heart of Kapoor and Sons. Sidharth Malhotra is spontaneous (I wish he was given more credit for that!) and equally at ease as the younger, immature sibling but does fall short in the more intense scenes. She (despite the minimal role) along with Fawad Khan hold this film together. Alia Bhatt appears effortless playing Tia. For whatever the film was worth, it was only because of him helming it) as to the perfect ensemble. I know the film didn’t do great and a lot of people didn’t take to it but his understated style lent the film a whole new character. And sets a standard for films to come.īut the credit for this goes as much to our director (who I could trust after Ek Main Aur Ek Tu. It may seem easy to execute on the outside but how often does Bollywood manage something like this – a coherent story, well narrated, engaging, with well-written characters. Kapoor and Sons is a flawless film that way. And the whole is a well-knit coming together of these parts. Every subsequent bit perfectly spins out of the preceding bit and fluidly ties in to the next. They mold along the way through the circumstances and situations they find themselves in. The director (Shakun Batra) doesn’t start defining them as soon as he introduces them to us.

The characters are unerringly drawn, real and relatable.

Kapoor and Sons isn’t your staple mainstream Bollywood. There’s an understated ease in how the characters play out and the screenplay unfolds.

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