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
System
Thriller (Hindi)
Not half as smart as it thinks it is, but enough of the twists land
Sat, May 23 2026
| Director: | Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari |
|---|---|
| Cast: | Sonakshi Sinha, Jyothika, Ashutosh Gowariker, Adinath Kothare, Aashriya Mishra, Gaurav Pandey, Sayandeep Gupta, Preeti Agarwal Mehta, Vijayant Kohli, Diwanshu Gambhir |
| Writer: | Arun Sukumar, Harman Baweja, Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, Tasneem Lokhandwala |
Chand Mera Dil
Romance, Drama (Hindi)
Starts out with promise but the film nose-dives half way and becomes pure tedium
Fri, May 22 2026
| Director: | Vivek Soni |
|---|---|
| Cast: | Ananya Panday, Lakshya Lalwani, Aastha Singh, Elvis Jose, Paresh Pahuja, Manish Chaudhary, Iravati Harshe, Charu Shankar, Atul Kumar, Akhil Kaimal |
Dug Dug
Comedy, Music (Hindi)
Artistry, ambition, and a director worth watching out for
Sat, May 9 2026
| Director: | Ritwik Pareek |
|---|---|
| Cast: | Altaf Khan, Gaurav Soni, Yogendra Singh, Durgalal Saini, Sarvesh Vyas |
| Writer: | Ritwik Pareek |
Ginny Wedss Sunny 2
Romance, Comedy, Drama (Hindi)
A whiplash-inducing blend of tired Bollywood cliches and wannabe ideas about the new Indian woman.
Sat, April 25 2026
| Director: | Prashant Jha |
|---|---|
| Cast: | Avinash Tiwary, Medha Shankr, Govind Namdeo, Lillete Dubey, Vishwanath Chatterjee, Sudhir Pandey, Nayani Dixit, Gopi Bhalla, Rohit Chaudhary |
| Writer: | Prashant Jha |
Toaster
Comedy (Hindi)
Gleefully goofy morality tale
Fri, April 17 2026
| Director: | Vivek Daschaudary |
|---|---|
| Cast: | Rajkummar Rao, Sanya Malhotra, Abhishek Banerjee, Upendra Limaye, Seema Pahwa, Farah Khan, Archana Puran Singh, Jitendra Joshi, Pratik Gandhi, Patralekhaa |
Bhooth Bangla
Horror, Comedy (Hindi)
Exhausting and dispiriting
Fri, April 17 2026
| Director: | Priyadarshan |
|---|---|
| Cast: | Akshay Kumar, Wamiqa Gabbi, Paresh Rawal, Tabu, Jisshu Sengupta, Rajpal Yadav, Asrani, Mithila Palkar, Rajesh Sharma, Manoj Joshi |
| Writer: | Abhilash Nair |
Jab Khuli Kitaab
Comedy, Drama, Family (Hindi)
Big-hearted core: We are all bigger than our biggest mistake
Sat, March 7 2026
| Director: | Saurabh Shukla |
|---|---|
| Cast: | Pankaj Kapur, Dimple Kapadia, Aparshakti Khurana, Manasi Parekh, Samir Soni, Nauheed Cyrusi, Sunil Palwal, Devyani Ratanpal, Abuli Mamaji, Kyra Kumar |
| Writer: | Saurabh Shukla |
Subedaar
Action, Crime, Drama (Hindi)
Trips over an overlong screenplay without much new to say
Sat, March 7 2026
| Director: | Suresh Triveni |
|---|---|
| Cast: | Anil Kapoor, Radhikka Madan, Aditya Rawal, Saurabh Shukla, Mona Singh, Faisal Malik, Khushboo, Nana Patekar |
| Writer: | Suresh Triveni, Prajwal Chandrashekar |
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