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An earnest underdog biopic with a genuinely inspiring premise and a strong central performance, but it leans hard on melodrama and familiar inspirational-movie beats. If you want a crowd-pleasing education drama, it works; if you need rigor, nuance, or factual fidelity, it may frustrate you.
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Fri · 2h 33m
Director: Vikas Bahl
Starring: Hrithik Roshan, Mrunal Thakur, Veerendra Saxena
Based on life of Patna-based mathematician Anand Kumar who runs the famed Super 30 program for financially weak IIT aspirants in Patna.
Vikas Bahl
Hrithik Roshan, Mrunal Thakur, Veerendra Saxena
An earnest underdog biopic with a genuinely inspiring premise and a strong central performance, but it leans hard on melodrama and familiar inspirational-movie beats. If you want a crowd-pleasing education drama, it works; if you need rigor, nuance, or factual fidelity, it may frustrate you.
Super 30 has a premise that almost sells itself: a gifted teacher, a brutal class system, and education as the only real ladder out. The film gets mileage from that emotional engine, and it has enough energy to stay watchable even when it reaches for obvious uplift. Hrithik Roshan gives the material star power, and the story’s basic appeal is hard to deny.
The problem is that the movie keeps dressing a powerful real-life story in overcooked biopic shorthand. Several reviews point to factual liberties, broad characterizations, and a tendency to turn every conflict into a speech or a swell of music. Instead of trusting the material, it often over-explains it.
As a result, Super 30 lands as a respectable but uneven crowd-pleaser: sincere, occasionally stirring, and frequently too polished into cliché. It’s worth watching if the subject interests you, but it’s not the definitive version of this story.
Michael James (3★) · 146 likes
Based on the true story of mathematician Anand Kumar from Bihar, it’s an emotional and inspiring underdog drama, that revolves around the prevailing educational coaching mafia. The movie gets well directed and has a decently engaging screenplay. Hrithik Roshan impresses with his stellar performance, while Pankaj Tripathi is as solid as always. It wraps up a satisfying watch with a heartwarming climax. “Jab zindagi imtihaan leti hai na, tab sirf ek hi cheez bachati hai – gyaan.” (When life tests you, only one thing saves you… more
Nilotpal Pathak (1★) · 74 likes
Probably not bad enough technically to warrant a 2/10 but epitomizes everything that is wrong with (most) biopics being made in India at the moment. Absolutely no attempts to be accurate factually - in fact so many of these films unapologetically contort the facts in a drastic manner to fit a cliched narrative structure, I have lost count. And that is especially disappointing here because with the many narratives surrounding Kumar and the shroud of doubt around some of his… more
Avijit Batra (2★) · 65 likes
साला IIT में केमिस्ट्री भी तो आता था..।
venkatnerd (4★) · 40 likes
This legit turns into a horror genre if you decide to watch with your parents
sindhu (2★) · 20 likes
no one: not a single soul: hrithik roshan’s right thumb: 🖖🏾
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education as liberation, class inequality, underdog success, true-story biopic, teacher-student mentorship, social mobility, exam pressure, institutional corruption
biopic, inspirational drama, education, class struggle, underdog, social realism, melodrama, Hindi cinema, teacher-student bond, 2010s