Then, the genre flips: Kumar is shot in the stomach, and the film turns into ‘Home Alone: Physics Edition.’ Super 30 couldn’t possibly have been written by one of Kumar’s students. The narrow-mindedness of that refusal is part of why 'Extra Ordinary,' from Irish filmmaking duo Enda Loughman and Mike Ahern, feels so satisfying.There is a warmth to this film, an easy charm, that comes from a script aware of the genre conventions with which it’s experimenting and from a cast willing to jump headfirst into whatever surrealism is required. The kids Roshan guides have fun in smartly depicted scenes about math. The cast is solid, particularly Aditya Shrivastava as Lallan, who appears to have something up his sleeve even when his character doesn’t. Set to the operatic background score of an Old Spice commercial, all the emotional manipulation gets in the way of inspiration. Here the drama comes from poor kids forced to share rice. In reality, Kumar founded a successful institute which allowed him to support his famed ‘Super 30’ programme.
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In the film, Kumar opens his own, entirely free institute for 30 kids, which is noble but untrue.
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He falls back to selling paapad made by his mother, when a coaching institute tycoon called Lallan starts leveraging him into a brand for his institutes.Īlso read: Anand Kumar reveals he has brain tumour, says ‘wanted Super 30 to be made while I am alive’ Super 30 movie review: Unlike what is shown in Super 30, Anand Kumar didn’t open his own, entirely free institute for 30 kids. 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. The scene where he’s obsessively solving a groundbreaking equation on his walls is reminiscent of Gus Van Sant’s Good Will Hunting, where a janitor was a math genius. I loved the opening gambit, featuring this young man wanting to get published in an academic journal not for prestige but because contributors get a lifetime subscription. Still, there is less of that here - at least at the start. Super 30 movie review: Even in Super 30, whenever Hrithik Roshan needs to dial it up a notch, he lets his nostrils do the emoting. And, as we all know by now, whenever Roshan needs to dial it up a notch, he lets his nostrils do the emoting. His eyes gleam only when discussing numbers and talking to students, but Super 30 pushes Roshan into awkward directions - like a nutty Paisa-Paisa song where he’s briefly corrupted by money and tight shirts - and hands him too much melodrama. The actor plays guilelessness with charm in Super 30 as a Patna boy hungry for the most advanced mathematical equations he can lay his hands on, a boy who hides a smile about a girl shyly behind a gamchha. Hrithik Roshan isn’t bad, though his problematic brown face-paint is inconsistent to the point of distraction.