'Shakuntala Devi' Review: Vidya Balan sets the stage on fire with her witty sense of humour and her insane love for numbers

A Potpourri of Vestiges Review

By Shubhangi Jain




Anu Menon's Shakundala Devi, featuring the bubbly and skilled Vidya Balan, recounts two stories at the same time. One story is of a young lady, Shakuntala, who has had no tutoring, no coach, no conventional preparing, but has a mind that cherishes making sense of numbers and how they play. It can also be described as the story of a young lady who grows up into a scientific virtuoso with shimmering eyes and splendid sarees with cheerfully differentiating fringes.

The subsequent story, of equivalent noticeable quality and importance, is of moms and little girls, and their frequently loaded relationship. Enveloped by the cover of show and obvious women's liberation, this biopic is about a virtuoso Indian Mathematician attempting to find some kind of harmony between her obligation as a mother and her self-improvement as a superstar.


Shakuntala Devi, a lady who got to the answers snappier than anybody, shows up at its last item regrettably quickly. We have only quite recently been acquainted with five-year-old Shakuntala, playing before her home in Bangalore in 1934, when she fathoms a square root of an eight-digit number. "She is no ordinary girl, she's a genius," somebody says.

Shakuntala Devi opens in London. A lady in a terrible hairpiece appears to be somewhat annoyed as she strolls into a gathering with an attorney. Anupama (Sanya Malhotra) needs to sue her mom, for pulverizing her monetarily. "Your mom could get a prison sentence," the attorney says.My mother has taken from me all that I cherished," Anu says and the film goes back into the flashback.

Vidya Balan plays Shakuntala Devi without hardly lifting a finger that you detest her egotistical, "I am right?" The sarees, the ponytails, the drinking of tea from the saucer, the giggle, the fit of rage ('The computer isn't right!') is simple for this fine on-screen character. Also, some may excuse the entire film dependent on cheerful math demos. That is the foam that air pockets out of a champagne bottle when novices pop the plug.

 Javier (J is silent) reveals to her that he needs to leave her, and Vidya Balan as Shakuntala Devi shows all her disappointment. How can anybody leave her? It doesn't process and words bomb her. That is the point at which you understand that this film isn't simply 'bubbly' it has all the kinds of the grapes matured under a French sun. Vidya Balan is the perfect blend of agony and rapture as Shakuntala Devi. The film achieves rather easily that Shakuntala Devi dearly misses Mathematics when she wears different caps. At the point when she plays the darling, the housewife, and when she plays the caring mother.

Vidya Balan attempts to battle her enthusiasm for math and the delight she encounters during the shows however can't. At first, the film seems, by all accounts, to be about Shakuntala's life decisions yet before long it retreats to an old hat show. She is sure, silly and beguiling as Shakuntala Devi. Vidya Balan's nearness, alongside that of an equipped troupe of supporting entertainers, particularly Jisshu Sengupta, Sanya Malhotra and Amit Sadh, supersedes a large portion of these flaws. Balan has a major, brilliant character that snaps with an appealing inward universe. But then she over and over occupies genuine characters, rejuvenating them without breaking a sweat.

It's hard to steal away a character where the main focus is on running through numbers, repeatedly. We see her to be youthful and old, alcoholic and calm, virtuoso and cheerful, grieved and desolate, every one created as a particular substance. It is without a doubt a pleasant and upbeat film that can watch with your family.

The movie is streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

Rating: 7.5/10

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