I have no qualms about playing either/or, wherever you see me fit, but I would like to work with you.’
And I know Shakun personally, so I called him up and said, ‘I would love to read and I feel I can play that role also. “I was never offered the film, I had just heard that the film was being cast but it was not proving to be an easy exercise. The Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar star, however, ascertained that he was never offered the film but as he knew Shakun personally, he could directly offer to be a part of the film. Wicked, witty and wise, Kapoor & Sons does Karan Johar proud.īecause it's about loving your family - sharp edges and all.Also Read | 5 years of Kapoor & Sons: When Rishi Kapoor said he offered to quit the film twice, fought daily with director Shakun Batra However, the direction, frequently evoking Monsoon Wedding, keeps things family-focused, with a moving camera and characters in meltdown. On the downside, the music's forgettable and Alia plays yet another boho-chick, with chic but predictable charm.
Alongside, small, silken touches - the shoes of someone who's gone, the chemistry of Alia and Sidharth, an old-world small town, a new world where children and parents comfort and confront - make Kapoor & Sons special. Fawad and Sidharth make terrific contrasts, Sidharth vulnerable, yet loving, Fawad, slick, yet asking with pain, "Aap ko mere jhoot bolne ka gham hai - ya meri asliyat ka?"Īnd Ratna Pathak Shah seals it with a fabulous performance that evolves from angry edginess to calm grief. In a wheelchair, Rishi Kapoor runs away with the film, smashing it with hilarious lines - an 'apology' goes, "Sorry, bhains" - and his dirty old man portrayal, lusting after Mandakini's wet sari and using his grandson's 'I-Papad' for porn. Ooty', whose bosom jiggles on command) and cinematography that captures lush Coonor with frames where you can, well, almost smell the plentiful grass. There are subtle touches - Sunita making bhindi which Rahul loves, Arjun hates - bizarre cameos (aspiring 'Mr. This is a family with its make-up off, screaming through hilarious situations - a sequence involving a plumber is side-splittingly good. This is an entirely real family, full of uncomfortable secrets, awkward jealousies and sharp pain, where brothers steal, parents cheat, siblings suspect and 'perfect bachchas' don't have perfect love-lives.
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