Produced by
Sony Pictures Networks
Directed by
Anu Menon
Cast-Vidya
Balan, Sanya Malhotra, Jissu Sengupta, Amit Sadh, Luca Calvani etc.
Release on
Amazon Prime Video
Rating - ***
Taking up
the subject that deals with the life and times of a contemporary human being
who was amidst us all less than a decade earlier and being able to do justice
to the task of translating on a wider canvas is no mean task and Anu Menon who
has made this movie has come up with near about fulfilling outcome!
Vidya Balan
who appears in the title role depicting Shakuntala Devi, the mathematical
wizard of our country whom we can all be proud of has virtually carried the
film on her shoulders! What a transformation she has subjected herself to while
enacting Shakuntala Devi who was an embodiment of woman-wood from a totally
different perspective! Hats off to her for performance tailored to perfection!
Of course,
film is a medium where the maker is permitted to be liberal while sketching the
screenplay of a project that deliberates on the life of a real-life personality
by resorting to some fictional drama to add pep to the proceedings and it would
only be fair to say that she has gone about her work within permissible limits.
Possibly,
more light could have been thrown on deciphering the mathematical genius of the
protagonist as the film only touches only the tip of the iceberg, that too, to
arouse applause from the audience on occasions she goes on stage to parade her
skill!
Moreover,
more focus has been laid upon the personal life of the protagonist whose
calculations with men mostly went wrong unlike her calculations in mathematics
that never went wrong!
The film
starts with Shakuntala, the little girl helping a male adult from her family
solve mathematical problem and not before long, her genius get not only noticed
but acknowledged & appreciated well!
She grows up
as a mathematical stalwart; so does her hatred for her mother who dare not open
her mouth before her father! Not only does she hone her skills as time unfolds
but also determinedly decides to never be like the woman that her mother was!
You will
realise my folly when you become a mother, her mother had said earlier!
Years hurry
past and she faces a similar situation from her daughter, Anu (Sanya Malhotra)
who decides to draw her mom to a legal battle!
Things get
sorted out as expected on a pleasant note, purely, in cinematic style!
Due credits
to others in the cast too but Sanya Malhotra playing Vidya Balan’s daughter is
certainly no match for Vidya in strides and hence stumbles time & again!
The story of
a real life person very close by, translated on the screen as a reel life
person in a reasonably effective manner.
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