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SUPER 30 DIVIDES OPINION

PRODUCERS of forthcoming biopic Super 30 are starting to sweat because numerous damaging allegations are being made about how Anand Kumar – founder of the Super 30 educational programme for poor students – may not be the heroic figure everyone believed he is.

Although veteran actor turned politician Shatrughan Sinha is among those who have come forward in defence of the mathematics genius, producers of the big-budget Hrithik Roshan starrer may now re-brand the movie as a fictional story of a common man who succeeds


against all the odds and sets up a path-breaking coaching institute instead of a documentary about the real-life person.

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