Amazon Prime Shakuntala Devi Review: Is Vidya Balan able to keep Balance between Maths and Motherhood?

-

Shakuntala Devi Real and Reel

Who was Shakuntala Devi?

Shakuntala Devi was an author, mathematician, and a social worker also. She was known as the Human Calculator or Human-Computer. She was born on 4 November 1929. She aimed to simplify mathematics for the students. Shakuntala Devi also wrote several books about mathematics, puzzles, astrology. She also wrote the book titled “The World of Homosexuals” which is considered as the first study of homosexuals in India. Shakuntala Devi was one of the female mathematicians who was never believed that being female is a drawback.

Details about the life of Shakuntala Devi

At the age of six, she demonstrated her arithmetic abilities at the University of Mysore. She demonstrated her abilities without any formal education. In 1944 Shakuntala Devi moved to London with her father. Shakuntala Devi traveled to several countries all around the world and demonstrating her arithmetic talents. She was on the tour of Europe in 1950 and was in New York in 1976. At last, her talent was acknowledged by the whole world when she was able to earn in the 1982 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records. Shakuntala Devi was one of the famous Indian mathematicians. Shakuntala Devi Achieved her world record on 18 June 1980 at the Imperial College, London. She died on 21 April 2013.

Vidya balan as Shakuntala Devi

Overview about Shakuntala Devi Movie

Shakuntala Devi is a biographical comedy-drama movie. Vidya Balan is seen as Shakuntala Devi who is also known as the “Human-Computer”. This movie streamed worldwide on 31 July 2020 on Amazon Prime Video. The Movie is directed by Anu Menon. The story of this movie is written by Anu Menon, Nayanika Mahtani, and Ishita Moitra. The trailer was launched on 15 July 2020. Shakuntala Devi is available on Prime Video.

Shakuntala Devi Movie is made from whose perspective?

The opening disclaimer states that it is being “inspired by true events but does not claim to be documentary or biography on any character represented”. This film ends with the text on screen that it is “based on a true story as seen through the eyes of a daughter, Anupama Banerji”.

Shakuntala Devi Cast

Vidya Balan is playing the role of Shakuntala Devi who is known as Human-Computer. Jisshu Sengupta is seen as Paritosh Banerji and the Husband of Shakuntala Devi. Sanya Malhotra is seen as Anupama Banerji who is the Daughter of Shakuntala Devi. Amit Sadh is seen as Ajay Abhaya Kumar and the Husband of Shakuntala’s Daughter.

Vidya Balan and Sanya Malhotra

Shakuntala Devi Storyline

Shakuntala Devi was able to get attention at an early age. A Fierce Feminist before she even understood the meaning of the word, Shakuntala Devi always lived life on her terms and that’s exactly picturized into the movie.

The storyline is trying to strike a balance between her responsibility as a mother and her personal growth as a mathematician. Anupama Banerji narrates the story in flashback. Shakuntala has won several awards in the field of mathematics and holds many world records for solving numeric problems in just a few seconds. As the narrative moves forward Shakuntala Devi does multiple shows in the US and that’s when she meets Paritosh Banerji and she shifts her all focus to making a family.

Shakuntala Devi Screenshots

Years after their daughter is born Shakuntala Devi realizes that her life belongs to the stage and that is where the second phase of the story starts of her life and the movie as well. From this point, Shakuntala’s conflict between her ambition and motherhood begins and hence the family drama takes place.

Shakuntala Devi Review

Vidya Balan

Throughout the film, director Anu Menon has made sure that the audience always remember that Shakuntala Devi is a Maths Genius. Including that capability Shakuntala also keeps us reminding that she is a vulnerable mother who wants to live with her daughter. Overall Shakuntala Devi’s Reel journey seems quite good. Some good dialogues are written by Ishita Moitra like “Aadmi Kyun, main to Duniya ki sabse badi aurat banungi” and “Why do men always want women to need them” and some more. But the disappointing thing is we do see Shakuntala saying big things and also accomplishing some of those but we never see how it happened or what went behind it. All the credit goes to Vidya Balan. She seems just confident, witty, and charming as Shakuntala Devi. Sanya Malhotra, Jisshu Sengupta, Amit Sadh also play their roles well. Their roles are brief but still their presence on the screen makes a good impact on the story.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

‘The Queen’s Gambit’: A Mesmerizing series on Netflix!!

-
Image
  Some Details about Queen’s Gambit series Queen’s Gambit is a web television series that is based on the Novel by Walter Tevis from 1983 by the same name. The story starts in the mid-1950s and proceeds further into the 1960s. The series title refers to the chess opening of the same name. The Queen’s Gambit follows the life of an orphan chess genius Beth Harmon during her pursuit to become the world’s greatest chess player while struggling with emotional breakdown and drug and alcohol dependency. This series is being directed and written by Scott Frank. This series released on 23 rd October 2020. It is available on Netflix. It has 7 episodes. The length of each episode is around 45 to 70 minutes. What is the Plot of Queen’s Gambit? The storyline begins in Lexington, Kentucky. Where a nine-year-old girl named Beth after losing her mother in a tragic car crash, she is being taken into an orphanage where she learned chess from the building’s custodian Mr. Shaibel. The orpha...
Read more

Boundries

-
Image
Sometimes The barb wires are made to keep us from trying something new but it sometimes gives us more and more courage that the people who wants us to be kept between the barb wires they actually have the fear that if they don't keep us kept between barb wires then we will achieve more and leave the other people behind , so all we need is a little courage and lots faith in our-self because other know our abilities but sometimes we forget our abilities and strengths , so when we overcome our little fear to whether cross the barb wire or not , we will be able to cross it and achieve in life any goals which we have , all we need faith in our-self and courage and hard-work to not stop until the goal is achieved.      
Read more

‘Aarya’ Hotstar Special web series review: Sushmita Sen is back with Bang!!

-
Image
Overview about Aarya Aarya is the web series that is about Crime and Drama. We can say Sushmita Sen, Chandrachur Singh, Sikandar Kher and Manish Choudhary are main and well-known faces of this series. This web series did release on Hotstar on 19 June, 2020. This series is being directed by Ram Madhvani, Sandeep Modi and Vinod Rawat. This series is based on the Dutch drama series named by Penoza. This web series have 9 episodes and all are available on Hotstar. The length of each episode is around 50 to 60 minutes. Aarya is one of the Hotstar Special web series. What is the Plot of Aarya? Sushmita Sen is seen as Aarya Sareen and Chandrachur Singh is seen as Tej Sareen. Aarya is being seen as his wife. Tej Sareen who runs a big pharmaceutical company but he doesn’t stay for much time soon in second episode he dies so Aarya seems to be the eldest heir to run the company. After Tej’s unfortunate death pushes Aarya and the three children into a major crisis because had to deal wit...
Read more