Bollywood Review: SUPER 30 |
Bollywood heartthrob Hrithik Roshan`s latest film `Super 30` released in Indian theatres on Friday. The film based on the real life of Indian Mathematics whiz and educator Anand Kumar has an extraordinary look to it. But if one exaggerates the extraordinary, it looks ordinary. Real life Anand Kumar has led a remarkable life, coaching hundreds of underprivileged children past the rigours of the Indian Institute of Technology entrance exams. The odds may have challenged Kumar, but the Hrithik Roshan version features armed hitmen, evil politicians and moustached villains. Hrithik Roshan did a good job, though his problematic brown face-paint is inconsistent to the point of distraction. The opening gambit, featuring this young man wanting to get published in an academic journal so that he gets a lifetime subscription. Kumar wins the subscription and gets admission to Cambridge University, but can`t raise the funds for travel, even as his father played by the reliably excellent Virendra Saxena overextends himself. He is then exploited by a coaching institute tycoon called Lallan who starts leveraging him into a brand for his institutes. In the film, Kumar opens his own, entirely free institute for 30 kids, though which is not a real fact. The cast is solid, particularly Aditya Shrivastava as Lallan. The kids Roshan guides have fun in smartly depicted scenes about math.
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