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
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 |
Laalo
Family, Drama (Gujarati)
While the film draws from Frank Capra's 'It's a Wonderful Life' and Vikramaditya Motwane's 'Trapped', it ultimately delivers a universal message about living with grace and generosity.
Sat, January 10 2026
| Director: | Ankit Sakhiya |
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| Cast: | Reeva Racch, Shruhad Goswami, Karan Joshi |
| Writer: | Vicky Poornima, Krushansh Vaja, Ankit Sakhiya |
Gustaakh Ishq
Romance, Drama (Hindi)
Screenplay flatlines early with unexplained loose ends
Sat, November 29 2025
| Director: | Vibhu Puri |
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| Cast: | Naseeruddin Shah, Vijay Varma, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sharib Hashmi, Natasha Rastogi, Rohan Verma, Lilliput (M. M. Faruqui), Shashi Bhushan, Jaya Bhattacharya, Samiksha Tripathi |
| Writer: | Vibhu Puri |
Tere Ishk Mein
Romance, Drama, Action (Hindi)
Inanity disguised as profundity
Sat, November 29 2025
| Director: | Aanand L. Rai |
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| Cast: | Dhanush, Kriti Sanon, Priyanshu Painyuli, Prakash Raj, Sushil Dahiya |
| Writer: | Himanshu Sharma, Neeraj Yadav |
De De Pyaar De 2
Comedy, Romance (Hindi)
Despite the film's performative progressiveness about modern relationships, it's riddled with double standards
Fri, November 14 2025
| Director: | Anshul Sharma |
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| Cast: | Ajay Devgn, Rakul Preet Singh, R. Madhavan, Gautami Kapoor, Ishita Dutta, Meezaan Jafri, Javed Jaffrey |
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 |
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