Movie Screening - Super 30

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Movies give a remarkable message with a new horizons of thoughts. Movies enable us to think our contemporary issues like corruption, poverty, starvation, unemployment, brain-drain, political malpractices, frauds with common men, etc. We're talking about a Bollywood movie, Super 30. Here are some details of the movie.

Production House : Phantom Films
Co-producer : Sajid Nadiadwala
Director : Vikas Bahl
Release Date : July 12th, 2019

On 1st August, 2019 a movie screening of Super 30 was jointly organised by the department of English and Hindi, MK Bavnagar University, at the Top-3 Cinema, Bhavnagar.

A Patna based mathematician, Anand Kumar starts free coaching for unprivileged students, who want to take admission in IIT. Fighting with different threats and dangers, he succeeds in the mission, all 30 students pass the IIT exam.

This movie rightly shows how the education in India has become a business. Poor and needy people are easily neglected. The right to education doesn't support any kind of cultural, religious, and class biases.

Anand, right from the childhood, develops interest in mathematics and becomes a scholar student in higher studies. He earns gold medal for good performance. He is interested in solving more and more complicated equations, he solves one from an international journal, Librarian pulls him out of the reading hall, peon suggests Anand that if he publishes an article in the journal he can get free issues of it. He works very hard and at last, his article is published in Cambridge University Journal. Anand gets admission in Cambridge University. He starts preparing for going to Cambridge, but, being poor he doesn't get financial help from anywhere. Lower middle class family tries much hard for collecting money. Anand's father dies due to tension of money. Anand doesn't give up the plan of going foreign. One day, Lallan, finds Anand on the street and convinces him to leave this hardships and start working as a teacher his coaching institute. At first, Anand finds this work very beneficial because financial condition becomes good. But at certain point he realizes that he is being used as a puppet in this big coaching business. He decides not to work with anybody, but to start his own classes. He makes IIT coaching free for needy and poor students. 30 students join his class and gradually after facing many hurdles and downfalls they all successfully crack the IIT entrance.

Interesting Points to Notice

Very inspiring dialogue of Anand's father, अब राजा का बेटा राजा नहीं बनेगा, जो राजा बनने का असली हक़दार होगा वही बनेगा।

Idea of capitalism is reflected in the movie

Anand explains students the art of questioning. Each question must generate one more question.

The art of visualizing the question and then finding the answer of equation. In the movie this scene is best shown with good graphics.

Case study of failure. What are the causes that failure occurred ? Student describe their problem that how classicism became barrier to face the exam. Speaking English is a big problem for students. Anand challenges students to speak English without mistake. He tells students to organize a play, and it must last 20 minutes. Students give very good performance with great confidence, Occasion of Holi, fills the color and joy to the scene.

Problem of food, the unbeatable question. By cleverness and wit he manages to get food from a restaurant. With the proper use of mathematical calculations, he convinces restaurant manager.

To bring the grass-root change in society is the courageous task. Students apply all the rules and theorems of science and mathematics to fight with goons, Anand gets injured by a gunshot, but survives the attack.

Endless motivation helps student to pass the exam. Happy ending.