Anupama Chopra
The Hollywood Reporter India and Chairperson FCG
Anupama Chopra is a film critic, national award-winning book author and journalist. She is the editor of The Hollywood Reporter India, founder of Film Companion Studios and chairperson of the Film Critics Guild. She has covered cinema since 1993 in multiple mediums – print, television and digital. She has worked with India Today, NDTV 24x7, Star World. She has also written about cinema for various international publications including The New York Times and Sight and Sound. Anupama has authored several books, including King of Bollywood - Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema, which was featured on the Editor’s Choice list of the New York Times Sunday book review and translated into German, Indonesian and Polish. Anupama received an M.A. in journalism from Northwestern University.
All reviews by Anupama Chopra
Dorothy
Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance (Tamil)
Must be seen for its audacity and ambition, despite its uneven storytelling
Fri, September 25 2026
| Director: | Karthik Subbaraj |
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| Cast: | Keerthy Suresh, Sananth, Rishikanth, Jeeva Subramanian, Ramachandran Durairaj, Muthukumar, Soundara Raja, Anthony Daasan |
Don't Be Shy
Romance, Comedy (Hindi)
Too flat and forced
Fri, September 25 2026
| Director: | Sreeti Mukerji |
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| Cast: | Arushi Bajaj, Ansh Duggal, Bianca Arora, Piyush Khati, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Neha Dhupia, Anurag Basu, Anju Alva Naik, Nazneen Madan |
| Writer: | Sreeti Mukerji |
The Vvaan: Force of the Forest
Action, Adventure, Thriller (Hindi)
A lazy, cynical approach to storytelling.
Fri, September 25 2026
| Director: | Deepak Kumar Mishra |
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| Cast: | Sidharth Malhotra, Tamannaah Bhatia, Nimrat Kaur, Maniesh Paul, Sunil Grover, Shweta Tiwari, Yo Yo Honey Singh, Manu Rishi Chadha, Durgesh Kumar, Anup Soni |
| Writer: | Arunabh Kumar |
Vibe
Action, Comedy, Drama (Hindi)
Uneven but mostly entertaining
Fri, September 18 2026
| Director: | Kunal Kemmu |
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| Cast: | Preity Zinta, Kunal Kemmu, Sparsh Shrivastava, Vanshika Dhir, Dinesh Lal Yadav Nirahua, Yashpal Sharma, Sharmila Tagore, Aditya Kulshreshtha |
| Writer: | Kunal Kemmu |
Lust Stories 3
Romance, Drama (Hindi)
Across its uneven films, the anthology finds humour, tenderness and ache in human longing
Fri, September 18 2026
| Director: | Vikramaditya Motwane, Kiran Rao, Shakun Batra, Vishal Bhardwaj |
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| Cast: | Radhika Apte, Konkona Sen Sharma, Vijay Varma, Abhishek Banerjee, Ali Fazal, Radhikka Madan, Aditi Rao Hydari, Siddharth, Gurfateh Pirzada, Sana Thampi |
| Writer: | Kiran Rao, Tanaji Dasgupta, Avinash Sampath, Sumukhi Suresh, Shakun Batra, Sameeha Sabnis, Ashwathi Namboodiri, Nitesh Bhatia, Utkarshini Vashishtha, Vishal Bhardwaj |
Last Man in Tower
Drama (Hindi)
Sturdy storytelling that offers no new insight
Mon, September 14 2026
| Director: | Ben Rekhi |
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| Cast: | Manoj Bajpayee, Divya Dutta, Boman Irani, Sukant Goel, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Ujjwal Chopra, Swaroopa Ghosh, Uday Chandra, Madhuri Bhatia, Shrikant Yadav |
Haiwaan
Crime, Thriller (Hindi)
What was gripping and believable ten years ago now plays as far-fetched
Fri, September 11 2026
| Director: | Priyadarshan |
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| Cast: | Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan, Boman Irani, Shriya Pilgaonkar, Saiyami Kher, Rajpal Yadav, Sharib Hashmi, Rajesh Sharma, Manoj Joshi, Asrani |
Gandhari
Action, Drama, Thriller (Hindi)
Impossible to take seriously and a misfire for all concerned
Fri, September 4 2026
| Director: | Devashish Makhija |
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| Cast: | Taapsee Pannu, Ishwak Singh, Mita Vashisht, Swastika Mukherjee, Chhaya Kadam, Jatin Sarna, Prashant Narayanan, Chandan Roy, Vishwanath Chatterjee, Priti Shroff |
| Writer: | Kanika Dhillon |
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