Super 30 Movie Review- Overdramatic and exaggerated but a palatable watch

Super 30 directed by Vikas Bahl revolves around the real life story of Anand Kumar, a math professor who trains 30 underprivileged children for the IIT examinations. The movie is as “Bollywood” a movie gets. The movie is so overdramatic that the characters start getting annoying and high pitched. Bahl underlines every emotion with blaring background music and makes all the scenes in the movie high tension scenes. With a 2 hour and 47 minute run-time the movie gets exhausting, so I found myself waiting for the interval desperately halfway through the movie.

The high pitch of the movie would have been palatable if it was paired with good acting, but even that was missing here. Hrithik Roshan as Anand Kumar seems like a misfit. It’s not only the accent which is rusty, Roshan doesn’t seem to let the struggle show on his face or how out of place he may feel and different points in the movie. His acting was just as exaggerated as in Koi Mil Gaya, which was completely off base for Super 30 which is a movie based on true events. Pankaj Tripathi has the best dialogues of the film but is there only in a few scenes so is forgettable especially since we have seen him do so much better. Aditya Srivastava or Abhijeet from CID as Lallan Singh is also reduced to a one note evil character. Mrunal Thakur as Supriya just has to look good and smile, which she does with ease. The real heroes are the children who bring a little bit of spark to film but its too little to redeem the film completely.

The treatment of the characters in the movie was also very black and white, that is why when in the film Kumar makes a questionable decision it is made to seen like a noble thing to do rather than approaching it as an immoral choice. The dialogue and script by Sanjeev Dutta is extremely predictable and it tries overly hard to pull on your emotional strings and make you cry. The dialogue also doesn’t quite fit into the Bihari accent, and there is a lack of attention to detailing in the dialogue. The biggest vice of the dialogue is the it makes no effort to be subtle, every emotion is explained and is in your face.

Lastly, the movie is filled with implausible scenes. Especially the one where the children fight off goons using ‘knowledge’. Yes, the ideas and science in the scene was good but it was more humorous that brave. The only scene which will actually give rise to some emotion is when the students perform in English for the students from the elite school, the other parts of the movie are a bore.

Watch this movie only if you are a Hrithik fan or just want to see something heartwarming. Others cinematically the movie is too long and tiresome. Go to the movie with your phone on 100% you may need it through the movie.