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
Ramayana: Rise of a Legend
Fantasy, Action, Adventure (Hindi)
Grounds the scale in emotion, blending the story’s moral questions with the pleasures of a grand cinematic spectacle
Fri, November 6 2026
| Director: | Nitesh Tiwari |
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| Cast: | Ranbir Kapoor, Yash, Sai Pallavi, Ravi Dubey, Arun Govil, Rakul Preet Singh, Lara Dutta, Indira Krishnan, Sonal Jha, Adinath Kothare |
Udta Teer
Comedy, Action (Hindi)
A promising premise caught awkwardly between spoof and sincerity
Sat, October 24 2026
| Director: | Aakash Kaushik |
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| Cast: | Ayushmann Khurrana, Sara Ali Khan, Rahul Bose, Supriya Pilgaonkar, Brijendra Kala, Ram Kapoor, Mukul Dev, Suhail Nayyar, Sandeep Anand, Gulshan Grover |
| Writer: | Aakash Kaushik |
Drishyam: The Conclusion
Thriller, Drama, Mystery, Crime (Hindi)
An enduring fascination with an ordinary man who becomes a mastermind to keep his family safe.
Sat, October 3 2026
| Director: | Abhishek Pathak |
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| Cast: | Ajay Devgn, Tabu, Shriya Saran, Rajat Kapoor, Jaideep Ahlawat, Prakash Raj, Ishita Dutta, Mrunal Jadhav, Kamlesh Sawant, Saurabh Shukla |
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 |
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