All India Rank
Drama Comedy Hindi
Vivek is 17, and as every middle-class family in India would attest, it is high time he was enrolled in coaching classes for the notoriously competitive entrance exams of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). Vivek’s father, who sees an IIT degree as a moral certificate, ships his only son off to a residential preparatory school in Kota, the Mecca for IIT coaching. Over two years, Vivek goes through the motions of Indian adolescence, but it is his parents who do the growing up.
| Cast: | Bodhisattva Sharma, Samta Sudiksha, Shashi Bhushan, Sheeba Chaddha, Geeta Agrawal Sharma, Neeraj, Ayush Pandey, Saadat Khan, Abhay Joshi, Shreedhar Dubey, Ananyabrata Chakravorty |
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| Director: | Varun Grover |
| Editor: | Sanyukta Kaza |
| Camera: | Archana Ghangrekar |
All Guild Reviews of All India Rank
A Spotify Review
All India Rank, the feature directorial debut of Varun Grover, is a refreshing change of pace for Bollywood, but still not as good as it could have been. We discuss all the ways in which the coming-of-age drama avoids making the same mistakes as 12th Fail or Kota Factory, its ability to evoke a particular time and place, and its reliance on tried-and-tested narrative tropes. We also talk about the toxicity in the Indian familial set-up that the movie calls out in its own understated way while making larger statements about aspiration and ambition.
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