Super 30 - Movie Review
Directed by: Vikas Bahl
Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Mrunal Thakur, Pankaj Tripathi, Aditya Srivastava
Runtime: 2hr 35min
Streaming on: Hotstar
Anand Kumar, a mathematician from Patna, India, works his way through challenges towards success before running the Super 30 programme for IIT aspirants in Patna. A simple yet true story that deserved to be pulled off in the big screen.
Now we see Anand's life and struggling financial conditions which makes us somewhat sympathetic towards him. But he isn't miserable. Roshan charmingly plays Anand, and lives and breathes the character. Now, his dark skin looks a little distracting to be honest, because you know it's artificial. Other than that, his performance is hypnotising as I found myself glued to the screen.
"Lallan Singh" played by Aditya Srivastava appoints him as a teacher in a successful business where the privileged children are taught by Anand, and his respect and wallet grow immensely. This makes him greedy and steer away from the children who don't have the resources to get a proper education and forget where he came from. But, eventually and expectedly, he gets over these and grows as a character which is predictable, but that's how it's supposed to go so that could be considered a minor gripe.
Now the scenes where Anand teaches the children in new and interesting ways along with some use of visual effects was pretty inventive as it I think critiques the way we are taught these days without anything interesting and instead are just told to memorise the textbook and that's what made Anand's teaching special and unique.
Now this story wouldn't be as effective or gripping without conflict. And so Lallan and Devraj have several attacks and threats planned in order to stop Anand's business as he was becoming a hero in the eyes of the media and ruining the business of the antagonists. But the students use what they were taught to their advantage and bring back the electricity, or share the textbook pages on a screen. Finding creative ways to tackle daily solutions and that I also liked quite a bit.
Now there's a scene in which the students are supposed to speak only in English for 20 minutes straight to build up their confidence with the privileged kids, which is a great idea in concept, but it eventually breaks into a song, that too with unimpressive lyrics which made me question what I was watching. That was a snippet I really didn't enjoy as much.
Now the climax is full of heavy tension as Anand's life is at stake as he had been shot and nearly killed. But as Devraj's goons appear, the students use what they had learnt and fought back by tricking and fooling them with whatever resources they had, as they sort of take the reigns as protagonist from Anand and their tests come to fruition in the near end which was a little ridiculous, but worked for me honestly.
(I liked the scene where the students are preparing tactics to fool the goons, one student brings up the idea of killing them, whereas his companion refuses to as he says "Then what's the difference between us and them." This is a very Batman statement to make as he follows the same "NO KILL" principle which builds their character)
- 3.5/5
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