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Herein lies the filmmaker’s clever trick-of alluding to the follies of the world of storytelling that he’s luring you into, only to trick you out of in the end, jolting you out of the security of the rainbows-and-sunshine conclusion that you had been expecting out of a family drama-and a Dharma production, no less.
KAPOOR AND SONS STORY MOVIE
This in a movie that, just an hour ago, had spoken of the importance of happy endings in fiction. The catalyst that brings the family under one roof at the start of the movie is a heart attack suffered by the 90-year-old Dadu-Rishi Kapoor in a stupendous performance-who has been ‘practicing’ dying all week, but what finally pulls them together is the untimely death of the father, Harsh Kapoor (Rajat Kapoor). The loose, sparring ends and the tangled web of lies and secrecy that almost every central character has spun are unravelled only after a cruel twist of fate and the movie, even as it ends on an optimistic note, leaves you with a very tenuous positivity-much like smiling through tears. In a piece of brotherly advice, Rahul tells him that people like to see in fiction the happiness that they can’t be guaranteed in life.īut in a cruel contrast, the ending of this movie is, at best, bittersweet. Arjun complains that one of the reasons he’s struggling to see his manuscripts in print is that publishers always ask him to change the ending to something more ‘happy’. Sometime in the second half of the film, Rahul (Fawad Khan) and Arjun (Siddharth Malhotra)-the former a bestselling author and the latter, an aspiring writer who’s still to get a book deal-have a poignant chat about the world of the written word that they share. There’s a heartbreaking irony that plays out in Shakun Batra’s Kapoor and Sons. For you never know when the darkness looms large leaving behind no scope for light to enter.This post contains spoilers and key plot points Most importantly, love your family despite all the odds. It just gets overshadowed amidst the surmounting family and circumstantial pressures. As a couple, however much there be downfalls, you must try to work it out by talking to each other rather than fighting and taking digs at each other.
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Your not so bright child may turn out to be the most successful while the brightest other may well find happiness in things that you never associated with him. Do not compare your children as they will find their own course in the phase of life. In each family, there shall always be a thin line of difference between every member- the perfect child who might have aspirations or likings that may not conform to the norms of the society, the woman of the house who despite having skills might not be able to take it forward due to circumstances, the husband who despite having a loving family falls out of love, yet they would be bound by a single factor and that is, the family. The movie’s underlying theme being that no family is perfect.
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It is a family drama and yet so different from the ones made earlier in Bollywood. Rishi Kapoor wins hands down as the naughty, and living as grand as his age Dadu his witty and sarcastic dialogues do not leave space for boredom in the two and half hour long movie. Kapoor and Sons has some powerful and enigmatic acting prowess shown by every actor. Does all this bind the family together or move them away from each other? Does Dadu’s wish of having a family photograph adorn the beautiful walls of the Kapoor house come true? As the story unfolds, each character opens up, and talks about things that had been somewhere stuck within them. Amidst all this, the story takes a sudden plunge as gloom descends on the family.