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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

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Cast:Adarsh Gourav, Shanaya Kapoor, Kshitee Jog, Parul Gulati, Ansh Chopra, Mona Singh, Hussain Dalal
Writer:Abhishek Bandekar

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