Children, on the other hand, just yearn to break free. Parents want their children to do all those things they couldn't, and hence try to control and decide every aspect of life. Parents and children, in every family, are schemers. The inevitable push-pull dynamics of every family, particularly one that has millennial adults in it, comes through better than we've ever seen before. But rather than the blacks and whites the ultra-elite Raichands of Karan Johar's second film see the world in, the middle class Kapoors see the world in a plethora of shades. That isn't to say that Batra's film isn't melodramatic, because the film is heavy with emotion, that un-shakeable hallmark of Dharma. One wishes the Raichands of that uber-dramatic magnum opus had discovered cannabis at some point, because they were in desperate need of calming down. On the contrary, Kapoor and Sons takes the Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham tagline, rolls it into a joint and smokes it nonchalantly. The film is about the Kapoors as a family, and this time, it's really not about loving your parents. Rahul, though, happens to be just one of the Kapoors from the film. If anything, he goes against every conventional depiction of homosexuality in commercial Hindi cinema.įrom using homosexuality as crass comic relief to understanding that we're beginning to see it as just another attribute among thousands of others that makes an individual, this is one welcome step in the evolution of Dharma - the fact that even their Rahul can be gay. He isn't the kind of person who'd make a conservative Gujarati maid freak out, a la Kal Ho Naa Ho. He's also gay, but that just happens to be one facet of his personality.
The Rahul of Kapoor and Sons, on the other hand, is one of the most rock-solid characters to have ever appeared in a Dharma film.
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His ' ek baar jeete hain, ek baar marte hain' was the kind of jumla that would make even BJP president Amit Shah proud, because barely days later, he ends up gatecrashing the wedding of the woman he made that faux-principled statement about one eternal love to, so he could have another crack at a second marriage. The Rahul of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai was a brash man-child who, throughout the film, never seems to know what he wants. It's a milestone film for Dharma, owing to a stark contrast to everything that we, the public, once associated with that name. Yet, Dharma's latest offering, Shakun Batra's sophomore film Kapoor and Sons, is as far removed from Kuch Kuch Hota Hai as possible. Alia Bhatt, Fawad Khan and Sidharth Malhotra in 'Kapoor and Sons'.
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