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
Dug Dug
Comedy, Music (Hindi)
Artistry, ambition, and a director worth watching out for
Sat, May 9 2026
| Director: | Ritwik Pareek |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Cast: | Anil Kapoor, Radhikka Madan, Aditya Rawal, Saurabh Shukla, Mona Singh, Faisal Malik, Khushboo, Nana Patekar |
| Writer: | Suresh Triveni, Prajwal Chandrashekar |
Accused
Thriller, Mystery, Drama (Hindi)
Consistently shies away from real discomfort
Fri, February 27 2026
| Director: | Anubhuti Kashyap |
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| Cast: | Konkona Sen Sharma, Pratibha Ranta, Aditya Nanda, Sukant Goel, Sanjeeta Bhattacharya, Anuj Sachdeva, Mashhoor Amrohi, Monica Mahendru, Kallirroi Tziafeta |
| Writer: | Sima Agarwal, Yash Keshwani |
O'Romeo
Crime, Drama, Action (Hindi)
Derails halfway through and never finds its way back
Sat, February 14 2026
| Director: | Vishal Bhardwaj |
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| Cast: | Shahid Kapoor, Triptii Dimri, Avinash Tiwary, Nana Patekar, Vikrant Massey, Tamannaah Bhatia, Disha Patani, Farida Jalal, Aruna Irani, Hussain Dalal |
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