Rahul, a successful novelist living in London, is remarkably mature. ![]() Dad ( Rajat Kapoor) and Mom ( Ratna Pathak Shah) seem to be bickering all the time, and the already fragile relationship between the parents and the children becomes even more strained when they are all in the house together. When Rahul ( Fawad Khan) and Arjun ( Sidharth Malhotra) return to their Coonoor house after their grandfather ( Rishi Kapoor) has a heart attack, skeletons start tumbling out of closets. ![]() Still, Batra creates a very watchable portrait of a house in crisis. The Kapoor family has its issues, but these are issues apparently solvable with just one look at an old photo album or one heated outburst. The word ‘dysfunctional’ has made its way to the publicity material for the film, but film-maker Batra’s version of dysfunctional is superficial at best, almost as if he is afraid of getting his hands too dirty and sullying the near perfect visage of his film. ![]() Shakun Batra‘s “ Kapoor and Sons” is a beautifully shot, perfectly airbrushed family drama set in the hill station of Coonoor in southern India.
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