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
Haq
Drama (Hindi)
Navigates delicate questions about faith, secular law, and gender relationships with sturdy storytelling
Fri, November 7 2025
| Director: | Suparn Verma |
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| Cast: | Yami Gautam, Emraan Hashmi, Danish Husain, Sheeba Chaddha, Vartika Singh, Aseem Hattangady |
| Writer: | Reshu Nath |
Vash Level 2
Thriller, Horror (Gujarati)
A powerful commentary about women in the country
Fri, October 24 2025
| Director: | Krishnadev Yagnik |
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| Cast: | Janki Bodiwala, Hiten Kumar, Hitu Kanodia, Monal Gajjar, Chetan Daiya |
| Writer: | Krishnadev Yagnik |
Thamma
Comedy, Horror (Hindi)
Love's redemptive power and human violence needs much more wit and energy,
Tue, October 21 2025
| Director: | Aditya Sarpotdar |
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| Cast: | Ayushmann Khurrana, Rashmika Mandanna, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Paresh Rawal, Sathyaraj, Faisal Malik, Geeta Agrawal Sharma, Rachit Singh, Varun Dhawan, Vinay Pathak |
| Writer: | Niren Bhatt, Suresh Mathew, Arun Fulara |
Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari
Romance, Comedy (Hindi)
Paper-thin screenplay, predictable plotlines, and uninspired humor squander the star power on screen
Sat, October 4 2025
| Director: | Shashank Khaitan |
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| Cast: | Varun Dhawan, Janhvi Kapoor, Sanya Malhotra, Rohit Saraf, Maniesh Paul, Akshay Oberoi, Nishigandha Wad, Neeraj Sood, Abhinav Sharma, Manini Chadha |
| Writer: | Shashank Khaitan |
Kantara: A Legend - Chapter 1
Action, Drama, Fantasy (Kannada)
Rishab Shetty’s conviction and daring vision triumph
Sat, October 4 2025
| Director: | Rishab Shetty |
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| Cast: | Rishab Shetty, Rukmini Vasanth, Jayaram, Gulshan Devaiah, Ramitha Shailendra, Pramod Shetty, Naveen D. Padil, Rakesh Poojari, Prakash Thuminad, Deepak Rai Panaje |
| Writer: | Rishab Shetty, Anirudh Mahesh, Shanil Gowtham |
Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears)
Drama, Romance (Marathi)
A lyrical, languid journey of self-discovery and belonging that offers hope even in difficult circumstances
Sat, September 20 2025
| Director: | Rohan Kanawade |
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| Cast: | Bhushaan Manoj, Suraaj Suman, Jayshri Jagtap, Dhananjay Jambar, Sandhya Pawase, Hemant Kadam, Vidhya Joshi, Ram Daund |
| Writer: | Rohan Kanawade |
Nishaanchi
Crime, Drama (Hindi)
Familiar plot and stop-start rhythm prevent Nishaanchi from reaching the heights of Anurag Kashyap's best work.
Fri, September 19 2025
| Director: | Anurag Kashyap |
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| Cast: | Aaishvary Thackeray, Vedika Pinto, Monika Panwar, Kumud Mishra, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Vineet Kumar Singh, Girish Sharma, Rajesh Kumar, Gaurav Singh, Saharsh Kumar Shukla |
| Writer: | Anurag Kashyap, Prasoon Mishra, Ranjan Chandel |
| Director: | Raam Reddy |
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| Cast: | Manoj Bajpayee, Priyanka Bose, Deepak Dobriyal, Tillotama Shome, Hiral Sidhu, Awan Pookot, Viking, Ravi Bisht |
Jugnuma (The Fable)
Drama (Hindi)
Raam Reddy's World Of Magical Realism Is Enchanting and Enigmatic
Sat, September 13 2025
Manoj Bajpayee works wonders with silences in Raam Reddy's stunning magical realism drama.
Jugnuma (The Fable) begins with a startling unbroken shot in which a seemingly ordinary morning turns extraordinary. Within a few minutes, writer and director Raam Reddy establishes the contours of this world and primes us to expect enchantment and mystery. The story is set in the spring of 1989 on a vast estate in the Himalayas. Men tend to beautiful, bountiful fruit orchards which spread over three mountains. But underneath the mundane – the owner Dev (played by Manoj Bajpayee) and his family, his manager Mohan (played by Deepak Dobriyal), the workers spraying pesticides to make the yield better – is a beguiling and wondrous world of fireflies, nomads who don’t speak but who exert some sort of benign power and a fable about fairies who live on earth because they don’t realise that this isn’t really their home.
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