P.S:
Shakuntala Devi: A world-renowned mathematician, known for her scientifically inexplicable master-brain with numbers, with no formal education had always kept me amazed, but from a great emotional distance.
I knew her as a human computer, and that's that. So much for an Indian personality known world-wide!
Through this movie, with a brilliant screenplay and direction, Anu Menon and dialogue writer Ishita Moitra have spun a magic wand of bringing Shakuntala Devi's personal life back from the dead.
I sometimes wonder how would it be to lead a life being child prodigy. This lady did, and it was difficult foregoing the childhood for she never let success get ahead of her. The screenplay in the movie has added bit of spice to pump up life into her story, but her own life as is was never less of any!
This movie will leave the viewer with a feeling of watching a great life's story and stay amazed at the personal touch it has. Grey patches exist in everyone's life here and there, and they are real, no matter how successful you are, or how publicly loved you are. Handling each challenging circumstance depend on the head-weight of the person in question, the baggage that the person carries, and the experiences that one learns from deep scratches on one's leg of thoughts.
Vidya Balan as Shakuntala Devi on screen is full of life, math and laughter, Sanya Malhotra as Anupama Banerjee, her daughter, leaves us keep wondering about how the life of a kid with informal education due to prodigy parent turns out a roller coaster ride of choices and these two casts in the movie seem very well-weighed and created on screen.
Being woman is not only about having a family, doing house-hold chores and raising kids, but also a balance that is hard to strike with what a woman wants in her life. Each movie is an experience and this one is not the one to be missed!
Four Stars for sure!
