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
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 |
Tu Yaa Main
Thriller, Romance, Adventure (Hindi)
Too lightweight to deliver real insight or genuine terror
Sat, February 14 2026
| Director: | Bejoy Nambiar |
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| Cast: | Adarsh Gourav, Shanaya Kapoor, Kshitee Jog, Parul Gulati, Ansh Chopra, Mona Singh, Hussain Dalal |
| Writer: | Abhishek Bandekar |
Primate
Horror, Thriller (English)
A deliciously simple premise
Sun, January 25 2026
| Director: | Johannes Roberts |
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| Cast: | Johnny Sequoyah, Jessica Alexander, Troy Kotsur, Victoria Wyant, Gia Hunter, Benjamin Cheng, Charlie Mann, Tienne Simon, Miguel Hernando Torres Umba, Amina Abdi |
| Writer: | Johannes Roberts, Ernest Riera |
Border 2
Action, Drama, War (Hindi)
The war scenes grow repetitive even as the emotional ones hit the high notes.
Sun, January 25 2026
| Director: | Anurag Singh |
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| Cast: | Sunny Deol, Varun Dhawan, Diljit Dosanjh, Ahan Shetty, Mona Singh, Sonam Bajwa, Anya Singh, Medha Rana, Paramvir Singh Cheema, Guneet Sandhu |
Happy Patel: Khatarnak Jasoos
Comedy, Action, Romance (Hindi)
A welcome change from both gritty spy thrillers and glamorous globe-trotting ones
Sat, January 17 2026
| Director: | Vir Das, Kavi Shastri |
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| Cast: | Vir Das, Mona Singh, Mithila Palkar, Sharib Hashmi, Srushti Tawade, Aamir Khan, Imran Khan |
| Writer: | Vir Das, Amogh Ranadive |
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