Student Of The Year (Hindi)
Release Date:
October 19, 2012The road from youth to adulthood is paved with myriad emotions and Student Of The Year celebrates this colorful coming of age. It is the story of Abhimanyu Singh (Sidharth Malhotra) and Rohan Nanda (Varun Dhawan) who traverse the path of competition, envy, triumph, failure, manipulation and heartbreak in their mini-universe of St. Teresa's High School, Dehradun. Abhimanyu Singh a.k.a Abhi comes from a middle-class family and wants to achieve great heights of success and prosperity, the first step to which will be the Student of the Year trophy while Rohan Nanda a.k.a Ro, is the son of a business tycoon who grapples with a complex relationship with his father and knows that winning the Student Of the Year trophy will bag him the approval that he subconsciously craves for. When the two protagonists with distinct backgrounds and clear goals clash with each other in the locker room, football field and the canteen, there is no question in anyone's mind that the preset equations of the St. Teresa's campus were about to change.
When Abhi and Rohan's rivalry takes an unexpected turn to friendship, neither pre-empts the complications that would brew. Things are further knotted up when Shanaya Singhania (Alia Bhatt), the most popular girl on the campus enters the equation. While Shanaya and Rohan are childhood sweethearts, Abhi's attraction for his best friend's girlfriend and Shanaya's quiet reciprocation causes a rift in their friendship that would have a long lasting impact. Looming large over the various friendships in the campus is the Student Of The year trophy and Dean Yogendra Vasisht's (Rishi Kapoor) emphasis on success and victory. Towards the end of the term, the foes-turned-friends-turned foes, Abhi and Rohan, are ready for a face-off and battle lines are drawn through the length and breadth of the campus, with only one goal in everyone's eyes - Student Of The Year Trophy. As new ambitions are born and old loyalties fall by the wayside, each segment of the Student Of The Year competition manages to tear apart both, the participants and the spectators, to redefine the choices of the three protagonists.
What will Abhimanyu choose? Victory or Friendship?
What will Rohan choose? Victory or Dreams?
What will Shanaya choose? Victory or Emotions?
Student of the Year picks of several themes of love, friendship, parenting, unhealthy competition in society. But it does no justice to even one of them. It turned out to be pretty bad eventually but yet not as awful as I thought it'd be. Watch if you have nothing better to do.
The students of the school sing and dance; flaunt their collections of Ferrari, Versace, Gucci and Louis Vuitton; work on their washboard abs and watch videos on their latest tabs. Whether they have any time left for study after all the hard labour is a mystery that is not decodable from Karan Johar's upscale boutique 'Student of the Year' (SOTY).
I’d expected an entertaining film and that’s exactly what I got. A good time was had by all. My kids loved the film, since it was kind of geared towards the younger set. Karan Johar does this genre of cinema very well – glitzy, glam lifestyles of the rich, attitude-wallahs.
Word of mouth - If you can't get Kuch kuch hota hai out of your head while watching Soty, stay away. But if you can enjoy the film for what it is go ahead and enjoy escapist cinema at its best.
Rating - 3.5 (good)
Ticket meter - worth a theatre visit
nycc muvi.... a more thn one time watch.... some drawbacks.... i m going with 3/5 for student of the year....