Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The Plot:- Rishi Kapoor as the granddad, a playful old man, a practical joker (I find annoying and silly but excusable as its more about the drama) has a heart attack. His son and daughter in-law rush him to the hospital. His grandsons, one in London and the other in New Jersey were informed so they both head for Coimbature, where the drama slowly unfolds. The granddad has a childish sense of humor, which is more realistic than the soapy tears and sentimental dialogues. The parents and sons bring the fun in dysfunctional. Constantly bickering. Not much at first but after spending a few minutes together tensions are brought to the surface. Favoritism and sibling rivalry is addressed. The Arjun character taking the brunt of the unfair victimization leaves to blow off some steam. Tia played by Alia Bhatt is another joker in this film, great character but with just a couple of tiny part-faults, part boons: 1. The actor herself, I find her really annoying, do not get me wrong she has potential and chooses good roles but she's not funny. 2. She redefines gender roles which is a good thing but she's the dominating character in every role and at the same time sweet and innocent and helpless. My feelings for her is complicated lets leave it at that. Please pass the cheese as we have a girl who comes in between two brothers. Well that was what I thought at first when Tia and Arjun were supposed to kiss thanks to the clichéd spin the bottle premise. It was interrupted. Rahul looking to buy some property also finds Tia. Tia in her drunkedness kisses Rahul. Note that she did all the kissing as it will come back later. Arjun reveals to Tia about his writing aspirations and how his brother's novel seemed to have similar characters and subplots to his first draft. Tia on her birthday reveals about her parents tragic death and her last words to them. They died on their birthday. It is not love at first sight thank god but a slow and realistically blossoming romance between the two which gives it depth. Rahul crashes his dad's car. His dad was about to blame Arjun for it when Rahul steps forward and takes responsibility. The father later gave the impression that he was at the garage getting the car serviced.Climax: Skip this part if you haven't watched the movie. When granddad is discharged from the hospital a welcome party was initiated. Sunitha the mother or jealous wife in this case makes a scene when her husbands female colleague shows up, party cancelled. Rahul explains that he invited said person and generally takes his father's side on this matter. Tia said she had to tell Rahul something, you know what that means? Meanwhile Sunitha was going through Rahul's PC. Rahul and his uncle were traveling in a car when Rahul seeing something suspicious gets out of the car and sends his uncle away. He goes to investigate. What he saw was his father's car with that dent in it from the crash earlier, in the driveway of the woman Sunitha suspects her husband of having an affair with. The infidelity is true as it turns out. Also Sunithaji aap ka beta gay hai=Sunitha ma'am your son is gay. Sunitha confronts Rahul about his homosexuality which by the way hats of to the director who understands that the typical gay stereotype is just that, a stereotype and a gay guy or girl may in fact just behave normally. In the argument it just slips from Rahul about his father's infidelity issue. The granddad's wish about taking a family picture is explored. An argument breaks out instead. Husband and wife argue over the infidelity, siblings argue over Tia and Rahul kissing Tia when it was Tia who initiated it but she's not Rahul's type and the idea stealing as well is not what it seems. The father drives of and Sunitha was calling his cell. He picks up but a truck collides with his car and he dies and the last exchange with the family was a negative one. Sunitha finally reveals to Arjun that she gave Rahul, Arjun's book idea. Arjun came out of the closet officially. A bittersweet ending unlike the redundant happily ever after.Content: Relevant and interesting for me but two cringe-worthy scenes or discussions rather. 1.Would you eat poop for money 2. Granddad and grandsons talking about smut. A mention of cartoon porn, hentai anyone. 3. Granddad explains that he saw Ram Teri Ganga Mailli 14 times for the scene where Mandakini getting wet in a white sari by the waterfall. The joke returns later on with Arjun bringing a life size poster of Mandakini in the white wet sari. Furthermore a life size poster of the deceased father for the family picture adds to the bittersweet ending as an inside joke so this one is kind of okay. A cool scene I liked, granddad and grandsons sharing a joint. Don't do drugs however folks.In conclusion a good movie overall for the drama genre.

Shakun Batra made magic with The Lunchbox turning something so everything and mundane to something so beautiful.With Kapoor and Sons, he has broken new ground on various fronts. Right from the beginning you know this is not going to be average over the top song and dance Bollywood masala fare. This is a very well thought out, searingly brilliant story with perfectly cast actors complemented by gorgeous cinematography and music.Rishi Kapoor is hilarious as the namesake Kapoor family patriarch while Ratna Pathak Shah and Rajat Kapoor bring their stage game to the big screen with stupendous ease. Alia Bhatt breezes through her quirky role. The movie works though due to the brilliant, awkward (on purpose) chemistry between Sidharth Malhotra and Fawad Khan who completely nail their roles. I'm so happy to have finally watched this movie. My favorite Hindi movie since Nil Batey Sannata

First of all if you like Bollywood masala without story then this is the one for you. Please do not consider my rating.Story .. nothing. Few comedy scenes are there to keep you awake throughout the movie. There is something in climax which I am not revealing. It is the only thing which makes you believe that movie has a story (actually there isn't if you ponder a bit). Acting is good by most of the characters. There are many stupid things. For example, Son cannot afford the hospital expense for the father who is an ex serviceman. Hello... where is free medical and other facilities for ex-servicemen??Overall, if you like selected entertaining movies, this is not a choice. If you like movies where you need to use your brain, this is not a movie for you.If you like typical monotonous movie with stupid things in it you should go for it; or if you watch all movies from "A class" banners in Bollywood, you should go for it.I would recommend not to watch with children or young as there is lot of drugs shown (even oldies take drugs!!) without any warnings in the movie.

Father had lied to his wife about his ongoing affair with a colleague, wife had lied to her younger son about giving his novel story to his elder brother, elder son had lied about his being gay. And the guy who haven't lied to anyone, was considered as a loser. Story of a family who was just staying together, instead of living. And there was a hidden flame between them which was sure to come out whenever the family got together for a party or even regular dinner. Rishi Kapoor's get up is amazing, initially he's unrecognizable. Dadu (Rishi) is the only common interest among all the family members.There's not a single unnecessary shot in the film, knitted beautifully and though it's 2:17 hours but never felt too long for a family drama.