Shakuntala Devi Amazon Prime Video Review By Upagati | Honest And Best Review
Introduction:-In one among the scenes of the film Shakuntala Devi, Sanya Malhotra's
character, Anu, screams at her mother, Shakuntala Devi (Vidya Balan),
resentfully. There are many moments during this film once you wish that the director, Anu Menon, had followed Shakuntala Devi's belief, and tried to inform the 'amazing' story of an Indian woman mathematician, who was a toddler prodigy, was named a 'human computer', had an exceptional knack for astrology, wrote cookbooks, supported LGBTQ rights openly during a n era when the gay rights movement was in a nascent stage in India, and fought election against Indhira Gandhi. However, Menon chooses to be 'normal'.
Her film, for many parts, dwells on Shakuntala Devi's fraught relationship together with her daughter, Anupama. Everything else may be a touch-and-go.In Menon's defense, the film begins with a disclaimer that says , 'it may be a true story as seen through the eyes of a daughter, Anupama Banerji' setting the expectation right for the audience. Menon shows Devi's life through the prism of her relationships -- together with her parents, sister, husband, and in fact , daughter. However, whilst she builds this private lifetime of Devi, her storytelling remains strangely superficial. For starter, we see a five-year-old Shakku scoff at her father for not being the provider of the family and using her as a 'money bank'; that is the length and breadth of Devi's relationship together with her father as shown within the film. We are told (and not shown) by the young Shakku (Shakuntala Devi) that she despises her mother for being a spineless woman who doesn't have the center to face up to her husband and that is again barely two scenes spent on a relationship that not only shapes her but also impacts her own relationship together with her daughter within the years to return .
For a toddler prodigy, who was discovered at the age of three , around whom neighbours would often flock to observe her solve math equations, and other people would come to go to her from other states, whom the press wanted to hide , and who was fondly called 'baby Shakuntala' during a time before Instagram glory of young children, and viral videos of youngsters , her childhood is given barely 10 minutes within the film. A minute approximately is spared on the scene that aims to point out the audience that she loved her differently-abled sister such a lot that she would forever hate her parents for not providing her proper treatment. The young love that she wants to marry, and shoots at when she finds out that he was getting married to a different woman, only get a scene, and therefore the Spanish lover stays for exactly a song and a make-over before bidding adieu to Devi for no clear reason.
Such a lot for examining the private lifetime of a math genius, through her relationships! In the meantime, Menon hurries through different montages of Devi's uncountable accomplishments, in order that she will finally reach the last half , where her film explores the mother-daughter relationship, that is the central theme of the film. therein rush, unfortunately, this biopic does away with many aspects of Devi's life that might perhaps not only be entertaining to observe but also inspiring to several .
movie cast-: Vidya Balan, Jisshu Sengupta, Sanya Malhotra, Amit Sadh .
movie director-: Anu Menon
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