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Anupama Chopra

Anupama Chopra is the editor and founder of Film Companion.

Articles by Anupama Chopra

Closing credits: Anupama Chopra bids farewell to Always at the Movies

We never say never at Wknd, so this is Anupama Chopra’s last column, for now. We wish her the very best at The Hollywood Reporter. Stay tuned as a familiar voice joins Wknd next month. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jul 19, 2024 14:55 IST

At the heart of the splatter: Anupama Chopra writes on the film Kill

There are 42 ‘unique killings’ in the film, says co-producer Guneet Monga. Kill stars debutant Lakshya as a highly trained commando fighting dacoits on a train.

Updated on Jul 6, 2024 10:06 IST

Bachchan, Haasan are set to storm our screens: Anupama Chopra on Kalki, Indian 2

Bachchan is a melancholy and brooding Ashwatthama in Kalki 2898 AD.‘They really want to be part of the process. They want to be directed. And they don’t want to do what they’ve done before,’ director Nag Ashwin says, of Bachchan and Haasan.

Updated on Jun 22, 2024 10:13 IST

Desi odyssey: Why Kalki 2898 AD dreams big

Kalki 2898 AD, with its star-studded cast including Deepika Padukone and Amitabh Bachchan, follows the story of a bounty hunter played by Prabhas.

Updated on Jun 7, 2024 16:36 IST

To those who Cannes and do: Anupama Chopra on a delightful season for India

(From left) Actors Kani Kusruti and Chhaya Kadam, director Payal Kapadia and actor Divya Prabha of All We Imagine as Light, which won the Grand Prix, the second-most-prestigious prize at Cannes. (Reuters)

Updated on Jun 1, 2024 09:44 IST

Move over, red carpet. Indian cinema is back at Cannes, says Anupama Chopra

A woman (Kani Kusruti, above left) receives a gift made in Germany, from her estranged husband, and it begins to change her life. All We Imagine As Light, directed by Payal Kapadia, is competing for this year’s Palme d’Or.

Updated on May 11, 2024 09:40 IST

Indian cinema’s maverick man: Fahadh Faasil does it again

Faasil plays a cheerfully unhinged don named Ranga, in the darkly funny film.

Updated on Apr 27, 2024 09:29 IST

How many stars is too many? Anupama Chopra on A-listers and streaming platforms

A poster for The Night Manager, a Disney+ Hotstar series featuring Aditya Roy Kapur, Sobhita Dhulipala, Anil Kapoor that leaned heavily on its stunning locales and elaborate action sequences.

Updated on Apr 13, 2024 07:30 IST

Trophy wiles: Anupama Chopra on strange awards and why they must stop

Emma Stone is handed the Oscar for best actress, for Poor Things, by previous winners Sally Field, Jennifer Lawrence, Michelle Yeoh, Charlize Theron and Jessica Lange. (Reuters)

Updated on Mar 30, 2024 11:53 IST

Manjummel Boys is an evocative tale about friendship, says Anupama Chopra

The 11 young men have grown up together, grown close. They are otherwise unremarkable, even rowdy. Then one of them falls into a crevasse, and we see a different side to them all.

Updated on Mar 16, 2024 13:41 IST

Gripping tales from the southside: Anupama Chopra on Poacher and Bramayugam

Mammootty in the fantasy-horror period film Bramayugam (Age of Madness).

Updated on Mar 2, 2024 06:26 IST

‘The Shah Rukh of Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa is the bumbling hero our world needs’

The film, starring Shah Rukh Khan and Suchitra Krishnamoorthi, was released after the 1993 hits Baazigar and Darr, but shot before those two. His performance has a rawness and vulnerability to it that he was rarely able to summon again.

Updated on Feb 16, 2024 16:29 IST

Girls Will Be Girls is a rare gem, says Anupama Chopra

Preeti Panigrahi won a Special Jury Award for her turn as the good girl grappling with a sexual awakening.

Updated on Feb 2, 2024 15:56 IST

Is there a nude in the balcony? Anupama Chopra on misleading publicity campaigns

Updated on Jan 20, 2024 09:59 IST

Screen sweep: The year ahead in movies, by Anupama Chopra

Director Pa Ranjith’s Thangalaan (Tamil for Protector of the People) promises to be a visual treat. An unrecognisable Chiyaan Vikram plays the head of a tribal community labouring in the Kolar gold fields.

Updated on Jan 6, 2024 13:22 IST

An exquisite untangling: Anupama Chopra on Kaathal - The Core

Mammootty and Jyothika as the lead characters in Kaathal. ‘What’s remarkable is the way Jeo and his writers, Adarsh Sukumaran and Paulson Skaria, choose to tell the story. There are no villains here, and very little drama,’ says Chopra.

Updated on Dec 15, 2023 17:09 IST

A Bollywood gold standard: Anupama Chopra on Ranbir Kapoor

‘I’ve never seen a son play-act his own father to demonstrate his brutality and the scars it left behind. In Animal, Ranbir is a man unhinged by his own pain.’

Updated on Dec 2, 2023 10:04 IST

A star is reborn: Anupuma Chopra on Kareena Kapoor Khan

Kareena Kapoor Khan plays a detective grappling with personal tragedy, in her new film, The Buckingham Murders.

Updated on Nov 10, 2023 14:35 IST

Behind the curtain: Anupama Chopra on the magic and mania of film festivals

Stills from Rima Das’s film Tora’s Husband, and the animated short Taar by Tsering Lhanzes. Both tales of struggling families were screened at the Himalayan Film Festival.

Updated on Oct 20, 2023 17:12 IST

A one-in-a-billion phenomenon: Anupama Chopra on Dev Anand

Dev Anand and Tina Munim (now Tina Ambani) in Des Pardes (1978), her debut film. ‘I consider him the most dashing hero Hindi cinema has ever had,’ Chopra says.

Updated on Sep 29, 2023 16:35 IST

Double tapped for drama: Anupama Chopra on dual roles and Jawan

Jawan features Shah Rukh Khan in three avatars: as an ex-Army man and dad named Vikram; his son Azad, a law-enforcer; and Azad in disguise, conducting missions of vigilante justice.

Updated on Sep 16, 2023 16:09 IST

Celebrating a crime spree: Anupama Chopra on Raj & DK’s streaming series

Gulshan Devaiah as Chaar-Cut Atmaram in Guns and Gulaabs. He’s an eccentric killer who ends each victim in exactly four slashes.

Updated on Aug 26, 2023 10:33 IST

Facing up to the facade: We must do better on mental health in Bollywood

'Art director Nitin Desai’s death by suicide should serve as a wake-up call. We need an organised effort to provide mental healthcare to Bollywood’s 2 million professionals,' Chopra says. (HT Archives)

Updated on Aug 11, 2023 15:20 IST

Returning champions: Bollywood is back, says Anupama Chopra

Pathaan (above left) has swept the box office, but streaming platforms are still doing a better job of nourishing good writers, as gems like Kohrra (above right) show.

Updated on Jul 29, 2023 09:24 IST

A new story? They’re all years: Anupama Chopra on silvering stars

(From left) Kapoor in The Night Manager, Ford as Indiana Jones in ...The Dial of Destiny, and Cruise in Mission: Impossible 7.

Updated on Jul 15, 2023 08:29 IST

Stream team: Anupama Chopra on the fans, stars and stories at Netflix Tudum

Actor Gal Gadot makes her way through a crowd of over 10,000 fans at the event in Sao Paulo. (Vans Bumbeers / Netflix)

Updated on Jul 27, 2023 11:24 IST

Fire, family and a fine filter: Anupama Chopra on Manoj Bajpayee

Season 1 of The Family Man jumpstarted Bajpayee’s career. The actor’s new film, Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai (2023), was such a success on Zee5 that producers decided to run it in theatres too.

Updated on Jul 27, 2023 16:48 IST

Koffee and a director’s cut: Anupama Chopra on Karan Johar the filmmaker

‘His cinema has given us indelible characters such as Saba and Ayan of Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (2016) and Tina, Rahul and Anjali of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998),’ Chopra says.

Updated on Jul 28, 2023 07:30 IST

A carpet-bombing at Cannes: Anupama Chopra writes in from the festival

‘The India story of the year, for me, was actor Sunny Leone, who wasn’t there just to glitter but went to Cannes with a film, Anurag Kashyap’s Kennedy,’ Chopra says. (Photo courtesy Film Companion)

Updated on Aug 3, 2023 09:00 IST

Always on location: Anupama Chopra on filmmaker Mani Ratnam

From the 1987 gangster classic Nayakan to last year’s Ponniyin Selvan 1, Ratnam’s filmography brims with brilliance, courage and vitality.

Updated on Aug 4, 2023 15:44 IST

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