Cert 12A
132 mins
BBFC advice: Contains moderate sex references, accident scene
Nobody does family dramas quite like Bollywood and Kapoor And Sons has all the elements of love, jealousy and betrayal.
And it also boasts Alia Bhatt among its cast.
I have been a fan of Bhatt's since her breakthrough as a young woman who fell in love with her kidnapper in Highway.
Since then I have admired how she injects an extra level of life into any project she tackles.
Here she plays an event organiser who flirts with two estranged brothers (Fawad Afzal Khan and Sidharth Malhotra) who have been called back from abroad to India after their grandfather (Rishi Kapoor) suffers a heart attack.
The family reunion around their ailing relative is a disaster, partially because the younger brother is disenchanted at the attention given to his older sibling.
Much of Sakun Batra's picture surrounds the verbal and even physical jousting of the two men but it also probes for skeletons in the closet of their parents (Rajat Kapoor and Ratna Pathak).
Despite it going over similar ground to many Bolly family dramas, Kapoor & Sons has a sting which kept me engrossed.
Khan and Malhotra are spiky as the two young men who sense injustice for completely different reasons while Kapoor and Pathak have their parental certainties whittled away as the film goes on..
But it is Bhatt and Kapoor who steal the movie. She is a wispy delight while he is elderly but impish.
Much of Kapoor & Sons' success might be down to its attractive cast and backdrop but significant credit should be given to its writers, Batra and Ayesha Devitre Dhillon.
They have created a film which surprises until its end.
Reasons to watch: Engrossing family drama
Reasons to avoid: It's a bit stretched
Laughs: none
Jumps: one
Vomit: yes
Nudity: none
Overall rating: 8/10
Star tweet
Karan Johar Overwhelmed with the response to #KapoorAndSons ...@shakunbatra is the man!! So proud of him and the entire cast and crew! Thank you to all
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