Movie Review : Kapoor & Sons

My Rating

Movie Name : Kapoor & Sons (Since 1921)
Directed by : Shakun Batra
Produced by : Hiroo Yash Johar, Karan Johar, Apoorva Mehta
Written by : Shakun Batra, Ayesha Devitre Dhillon
Cast : Rishi Kapoor, Fawad Afzal Khan, Ratna Pathak, Rajat Kapoor, Sidharth Malhotra, Alia Bhatt
Genre : Romantic Comedy-Drama

Plot : Estranged two brothers Rahul and Arjun Kapoor (Fawad Afzal Khan and Sidharth Malhotra) are forced to come together and return to their childhood home in Coonor when their 90-year-old grandfather affectionately named "Dadu" (Rishi Kapoor) suffers from a heart attack. Their parents, Harsh and Sunita Kapoor (Rajat Kapoor and Ratna Pathak) also reside here. Rahul is a writer, who personifies the image of a successful young man who appears to be the most mature person in the family. On the other hand, Arjun struggles to make it big as a writer and resorts to running a website and works part time as a bartender to make ends meet. Rahul is loved more by his parents for being more mature and successful. This doesn't go well with Arjun. While the brothers struggle to get along, the parents, Harsh and Sunita Kapoor too are troubled with their own marriage. Arjun meets Tia(Alia Bhatt) at a party and falls in love at first sight while Tia finds Rahul hot. Will this family ever be together or there will be more problem?

My take on the movie:
Kapoor and Sons is not just a movie, possibly everyone who has watched the movie has lived one or more part of their life through it. This movie has managed to touch almost every aspect of today's life, be it Sibling love or rivalry, partialism of parents, extramarital affair, homosexuality, the ego of a looser man, the loneliness of a father, bonding between grandfather and grandsons and much more. It is like a garland created with small beads and which never seemed to be too many of beads, or the beads are not being handled properly. It is crafted just perfectly.
There are many small moments in the movie which touched my heart and tears automatically rolled down.
The story went very smoothly and unveiled the incident one after other very flawlessly which definitely kept the audience in suspense all the time. The twists in the story are created very nicely and flawlessly and was actually nonguessable after quite a long time. This movie pointed very bluntly to us that none of us are perfect and we all have made our share of mistakes in life. So, we should learn to let go few things to be happy and content in life.
Rishi Kapoor, Siddharth Malhotra and Alia Bhat did a great job. Fawad Khan, you are the LOVE, seriously in love with him head over heals :). Ratna Pathak and Rajat Kapoor are equally good.

Thumbs Up:

• The storyline is awesome. An out of box story but just picked from our daily life, something we all can relate to, which has been successful in touching the heart of people.
• As I already told, twists are unveiled successfully and they remained twists, not something which audience could guess from the first scene and just becomes a drama for the movie shake.
• Dress designers, make-up men have done a great job.

Thumbs Down:

• Music is a big turn down for this movie. There is not a single song I would think of playing twice.

Verdict: It is a great movie and everyone must watch this at least once.