When I Met KAPOOR & SONS
Director: Shakun Batra
Writers: Shakun Batra, Ayesha Devitre
Starring: Sidharth Malhotra, Fawad Khan, Rishi Kapoor
“So, how was Kapoor & Sons?”It was …. [Wait] I mean..
This was my friend asking me about the
movie I had watched on a Sunday afternoon. With the aim of slaying the time, I
entered the dark hall expecting a typical Dharma Production’s product to which
I would have to glue my eyes upon. But after vacating the hall, I was emotional.
Emotional, as I was after watching Whiplash
or Gran Torino.
I’ll be straight up honest. I’ve seen a
lot of Dramas, Romantic Comedies of Bollywood. Some of them have been
exceptional. But this is what I dislike. The word ‘some’ should have been
replaced by ‘most’. Kapoor & Sons made
it to the ‘some’ category which exist in my mind. The most intriguing
happy-yet-sad ending was enticing enough for aspiring writers like me and the ‘big-shot’ Bollywood writers, to learn from. I had been noticing Siddharth Malhotra as another still faced John Abraham in his
previous movies. But in Kapoor & Sons,
I see this Sidharth Malhotra (Arjun)
who is present with his friends and family, devoid of a
production unit. Cheerful, sad, honest; justifying the character of the story. Fawad Khan, is a symbol of dapper with
no glimpse of exaggeration in his display of Rahul Kapoor: a mature, empathetic and a successful writer. Alia Bhatt (Tia
Malik) played a good part, but sincerely, she has a lot to learn to ace the
skills of acting. The entire cast brought forward a family, which the writers of
the movie, Shakun Batra and Ayesha Devitre Dhillon, had thought of
each day while preparing the script.
Here lies a grandfather, with smoke
curling up his face. His two grandsons rejoicing in time, time which will take
their father away on a long voyage. Father takes away the bliss of mom’s
marital life and mom revolts against the father’s existing and provoking lies.
Younger son broods upon his prejudiced fate and the elder one seeks for
solution to ‘em all. Younger one rages against the elder one where the elder one
is already raged by the immoral choices of his father and his mother’s temper
over his own lifestyle choices. Meanwhile, the father is economically troubled
and so is the mother due to the decisions of the former and the aftermath which
impacts her aspirations. And yes, all of this is accompanied by the
Grandfather’s last wish, that is, a family photograph captioned as 'Kapoor
& Sons, since 1921.'
The sublime juxtaposition of sub-plots
to enhance the plot and hence, the delivery of the story is what I suppose, composes the
proper construction of a movie. Sub-plots are complex in this movie in contrast
to the ease of their assembly. The scenario of the plumber fixing the damaged
pipe, with Sunita (Ratna Pathak Shah) mulling over the indecisiveness of her hubby -
Harsh (Rajat Kapoor), leading on to a
heated debate accompanied by comical references by the plumber and another act of deliriousness by the brothers, Rahul (Sidharth) and Arjun (Fawad), made me marvel at the beauty
with which the furor was put up on the screen. A scene, which I wish to watch over
and over again.
Remarkable is the hardwork of director, Shakun Batra, who narrates the complex
plots and sub-plots visually like a maestro. After cruising the movie, one is left
with a question mark inside the head: a contemplating mood over life and happy
ending versus reality. The fact which philosophers and bards have been promoting
in their works is what Kapoor & Sons
comprises of.
To sin is human, they say. But this
movie stands for: To sin and yet forgive the sinner, is human; for love is a
weak tragedy uplifted by the higher dimensions of death.
This movie is a Johar-ish effect made
right, after all it’s a Dharma for the movie makers.
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