Brothers ... Blood Against Blood

Released Aug 14, 2015

2h 36m

Action

Drama

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47%

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15 Reviews

58%

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500+ Ratings

Two estranged, street-fighting brothers (Akshay Kumar, Sidharth Malhotra) square off against each other in a mixed martial arts tournament.

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Lisa Tsering

Hollywood Reporter

Viewers willing to embrace its skillful and emotionally real depiction of a man making impossible choices -- and especially fans of Akshay Kumar ready to see him excel in a physically and emotionally challenging role -- will be well rewarded.

Oct 27, 2015

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Mike McCahill

Guardian

Almost all the second-half drama feels sketchily conceived; that canvas of narrative and thematic groundwork O'Connor set down before his brothers in arms went head-to-head simply hasn't travelled.

Rated: 2/5

Aug 17, 2015

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Udita Jhunjhunwala

Scroll.in

This story of a fractured family is high on manipulative cinematic tools but fails to make an emotional connection. What stays with you are the no-holds-barred action sequences and the hummable theme tune.

Aug 14, 2015

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J Hurtado

ScreenAnarchy

Brothers is a film that plays emotional rope-a-dope with its audience.

Nov 3, 2017

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Shilpa Jamkhandikar

Reuters

It is the mind-numbingly inane commentary that is the most grating part of these scenes. The verbal diarrhoea drowns out what is supposed to be the most action-packed part of the film.

Jun 27, 2017

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Nora Lee Mandel

Maven's Nest

Bollywood. . .culturally adapted remake of "Warrior". . . to the alleys, waterfront, melodrama, and music of Mumbai. . . is surprisingly moving fraternal bonding.

Rated: 6/10

Aug 19, 2015

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Andre G

I don't know what the point of this movie is. Just a guy who's crazy from ptsd. There's no point to the movie at all.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

05/01/23

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Audience Member

What I didn't know was it is an official adaptation produced by Lionsgate. However they completely changed the younger brother's character and it was very clear Sidharth didn't get any training. Which feels like what lead to his role being to minimal. He didn't seem like a main character. The changes they made comprised a deeper story. And there was only one song not worth skipping, the fight montage song. This being said, because AK trains in real life, his fight scenes were great. Jackie Shroff's performance was full of emotion. Overall, I wouldn't dismiss this as a bad movie. It was moving, tears were shed. If you haven't seen the original, by all means watch it. But if you watch the original after, it'll upset you that Sidharth could have had a way better role

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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r 9

It nails the heart, but everything else about 'Brothers' is yawnful. The film manages to make you care for Akshay Kumar's character David, as well as for Sidharth Malhotra's Monty but it's skewed heavily towards Kumar. Away from them though, it's poorly crafted storytelling in regards to the sporting and siblings/father parts of the plot. It also goes on for too long, my version of the film - via Colors Cineplex - only ran for around two hours... I'm not sure where the apparent extra thirty or so minutes went, though I'm kinda glad as that extra portion would probably put my rating much lower. At least the music is nice. There are many better Hindi sport dramas out there.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Hahaha got quiet emotional haha..the way the scene are made ..it's a good remake from Warrior...even cried..the movie is inspiring and motivational .. respect

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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Audience Member

this movie is amazing

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/16/23

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Audience Member

As a NRI viewer I might be among the few to actually appreciate the absence a few 'currently traditional' elements of a usual 'Bollywood' movie...of-course it was under borders because of being a remake of a Hollywood movie but even as that is true you didn't have a character playing the usual 'stupid joker' type instead the principal role was a light touch to the funny element which is needed for a movie like this, you didn't have a 'villain', there weren't lots of songs and the songs that were there had some story elements going in the background, no actor(esp Akshay Kumar) was doing any over-acting like they do in Singh is king or many movies like Om Shanti Om/Bajrangi Bhaijaan (to avoid actor names..) etc or any of the other masalla movies which has sadly become the traditional movie of India. The movie felt at a good pace for a movie going around 'mma/fighting'. To be true with movies like Singh is king and all in which its recommended to not bring your brains in the theatre to think and instead blindly laugh (which has become the main line movies in Bollywood sadly) i had low hopes for good acting from Akshay Kumar but he still has it and that's good to know as that could also mean that actors like ShahRukh Khan, Salman Khan, etc could still do good acting instead making bling-bling off of over-acted roles in garbage movies and songs that have no good lyrics, music or dancing and are only meant to show actress's watermelons and booty (there was one such song in this movie too alas! but i suppose they wanted at-least some India public to watch the movie too eh!). with the recent news of WWE and TNA showcasing in India soon here's to hoping that MMA comes to India in the same spectacular way as they show in the movie...which, for a movie, was rather realistic in ideals...in India in reality MMA is/would be considered a criminal's playground and hence banned which isn't even nearly the case in real MMA..movies have the power to shape future and plus with the appearance of entertainment shows like WWE and TNA maybe real fighting like MMA/UFC could land in India sooner!. :)

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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Karan Malhotra

Director

Akshay Kumar

David

Sidharth Malhotra

Monty

Jackie Shroff

Actor

Jacqueline Fernandez

Actor

Shefali Shetty

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Synopsis

Two estranged, street-fighting brothers (Akshay Kumar, Sidharth Malhotra) square off against each other in a mixed martial arts tournament.

Director: Karan Malhotra
Producer: Parth Dholakia
Distributor: FIP
Production Co: Dharma Productions, Endemol India, Lionsgate
Genre: Action, Drama
Original Language: Hindi
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 14, 2015, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 31, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $613.8K
Runtime: 2h 36m

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