I accepted the reality that out of 10 films I’ll watch, maybe, just maybe, two of them will be quality, worthwhile films while the others will just be money-making entertainment. While I notice the misogynist themes in the most popular movies, the Bollywood enthusiast in me can’t help but watch and enjoy (ugh. Most of Bollywood’s box office successes revolve around weak plots, misogynistic item songs, and male lead characters. I walked out, however, overwhelmed with emotions and a sense of pride for Bollywood for creating such a real film. I entered the theater to watch “Kapoor and Sons,” expecting to watch a typical Dharma Productions film with good songs, pretty people, and an average to below average storyline. The film is absorbing up to a point, but sputters after you get the general drift.Cast: Sidharth Malhotra, Fawad Khan, Alia Bhatt, Ratna Pathak, Rajat Kapoor There is no judgement passed on any character in the film, and this is a relief from the usual melodrama in family movies. Which is why a lot of families choose to suppress similar, unresolved issues. The idea in Kapoor & Sons is to say that all families are essentially complicated and that a search for honesty in relationships within brings catharsis, but it also opens the scabs of festering wounds. In between, we have the brothers apparently attracted to the same girl (Alia Bhatt), a cheerful young thing who has had her own share of family unhappiness. It is not clear if this is a veiled comment on the literary merit of our writers and the enthusiasm of foreign publishing houses -shown in the film to offer heftier advance and easy praise-or just a casual parallel the filmmaker is making between lifting ideas from books and films, perhaps condoning both. Unfortunately, the siblings are Indian novelists writing in English and their mother (Ratna Pathak) has actually aided Rahul Kapoor (Fawad Khan) in plagiarising from the work of Arjun Kapoor (Sidharth Malhotra). The lively and cantankerous ‘Dadu’ (Rishi Kapoor) would like to see his brood, which he fondly calls ‘ Kapoor & Sons (since 1921)’, unite on that day in mythical harmony. It is about two brothers coming home to the family home in Coonoor to see their ailing grandad who is to celebrate his birthday. Kapoor & Sons has a remarkably similar theme and shooting style. This is Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married (2008). The camera is mobile, accompanying the characters as they interact with each other, giving us the impression of a film shot in real time. Parental love is perceived as not evenly divided.

The family is close but there are unresolved issues from the past. TWO SISTERS come home for the impending marriage of one of them.

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