‘Super 30’ - The Movie - Some Thoughts

Watched Super 30, a good inspiring movie with its beautiful high moments and a few descents into propaganda, a subtle urban naxal one, in this case.

Hrithik as the real-life Anand Kumar, on whom the movie is based, was quite a revelation and the very sweet and charming one ‘opposite’ him won hearts with her lovely innocent smile and mannerisms with ease.

While the question of opportunities for the fortunate few and the lack of it for the not-fortunate is more than obvious, the immense desire for admission into the IIT’s and the competition for its limited seats raises questions.

In 70 years after independence, what obstructs India from providing a real education more widely? Why are good institutions so few and far apart? Or, is it that the institutes are there but they’ve not been able to graduate into people’s psyches? Maybe, we the people, are too blind to recognize excellence in those who are not backed by others’ recognition!

Millions of students who go to the best educational institutions for selection but are denied by that ‘1’ or ‘2’ marks differential cannot be all that bad. So, are those tertiary institutions that then admit them so incompetent that their students are considered not-quite-it? Anyway, this is a question that must be dealt with some other time...back to the present issue.

Education is the ‘path to heaven’ as per the politician who runs coaching centers and rakes in the moolah, conspiring and plotting against all possible competition, thus making a heaven for himself.

Anand, as the visionary teacher inspires, motivates, shocks, cajoles his students to really ‘see’, believe in themselves, reach higher, try harder and apply what they’ve learnt in practical ways. That’s precisely what education really is...the ability, willingness, curiosity and willingness to apply what’s learnt in real life situations.

Anand teaches his wards to make the leap...that leap which takes one beyond his self-imposed limitations because our limitations are merely those that we force upon ourselves, reinforced by the silent, continued chatter inside...the chatter of self-annihilation.

When we learn to hear the chorus of ‘NO’, NO, NO’s as NOW, we learn to take the bull of destiny by its horns and turn it into an ox that does the ploughing for us.

Anand, the math teacher, teaches math but more importantly, his teachings are peppered with life-lessons, motivation and inspiration that grew from a large reservoir of love in his heart for those who had the fire in them to learn. Anand denies himself the good life, sacrifices himself his love but fans the students’ fire and pours enough petrol in the fire to power his wards into the stratosphere with a seat at the IIT’s for all of them...

He teaches them to make the leap, a leap with which they will inspire many others...

- rajyogi

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