Super 30 (2019)

Director: Vikas Bahl

Producer: Sajid Nadiwala

Cast: Hrithik Roshan (Anand Kumar), Virendra Saxena (Ishwar Kumar), Aditya Srivastava (Lallan Singh)  

A biopic on math whiz and teacher, Anand Kumar, Super 30 is a super adventure.

The film begins in London circa 2017 where a Super 30 laureate named Fugga Kumar (Vijay Varma) from India is invited to speak about his life. His story begins in Patna, (state) in the year 1996 where Anand Kumar had solved a math problem which had eluded a solution till that point. Anand sends the problem and its solution to the editor of The Mathematical Gazette and subsequently receives an admission to Cambridge University. However. He was unable to go and study at the university as he did not have sufficient money and, a minister who had promised to help refused because the minister decided against donating money. Further, Anand’s father, the family’s sole breadwinner, died due to cardiac arrest leaving the family without any means of support. 

Anand’s family was reduced to selling papads. One afternoon while selling papads, a car knocks Anand down but fortunately Anand was not injured. In the car, there revealed to be Lallan Singh, the assistant of the same minister who refused to give money. Lallan recommends Anand join his tuition Excellence Coaching Class. Anand joined Excellence Coaching Class as a math teacher and started earning more (‘Paisa’). When a poor boy who is unable to pay the fees has to walk away, Anand thinks that these kids also deserve a right to education and in 2002, he left Excellence and opened a free tuition for poor kids called Super 30 (there are only 30 kids in the class hence the name). Lallan thought of and tried to lure Anand back to Excellence. He faced multiple challenges while teaching his needy students. Want to know more? Watch the movie!

I like the plot of the movie. The actors actually got into the role. The make-up was also good, but Hrithik Roshan got over-dabbled in tan. He is actually so good-looking. Too much tried authenticity can also lead to negative and/or mixed reviews. Anyway, the real Anand Kumar isn’t that tan-skinned. The idea of holograms (or something like that) to display the students’ intelligence in the song ‘Question Mark’ was great. Also, a main actor in the film, Hrithik Roshan, sang the aforementioned song. Good idea, right? Then Hrithik Roshan would lip-sync it properly and accurately. The actors who portray the students, surprisingly, look more realistic than the superstar who tops them out. A screen-stealer since debut, Pankaj Tripathi, even for his limited screen time, plays the slimy minister who only a few weeks ago, had awarded Anand in a college award ceremony, and a few years later, wants to kill Anand. It has these flaws :

•          The make-up pandemonium.
•          The story start (because Fugga didn’t start in 2002, but in 1996).
•          It over-dramatized the details of the film.

However, the movie is well planned out.

I wholeheartedly recommend this movie because:

1.       It has good acting.
2.        It is really immersive.
3.       It has an amazing plot.
4.       The movie is an entirely a narrated story, which is interesting.
5.       Overall, THE MOVIE IS YAHOO!! 

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Await a surprise at the end!