35 - Movie

 I read the review and wanted to watch it in the theatre but by the time I moved, it had gone off. I found it on Aha and watched it. Very nice indeed.

A young family, father's a bus conductor, mother is a 10th fail, bringing up their two kids in Tirupati. One of the kids, the older one is a rebel, an original thinker, who questions every math principle and just does not pass a single exam. Added to this trauma is the fact that his best friend, the topper, moved away to another school. The strict, result-driven math teacher does not help. How he finds a way to clear his exam with a minimum pass mark of 35 with a lot of help from his mother who teachers herself English and Math to train him, and in the process finds herself being empowered enough to pass her 10th is the rest of story. The Tirupati dialect they use is very charming, as is the small town feel, the cute house they live in, the school and the innocence of children is very charming and well captured. Nivetha Thomas as the mother did an excellent job, as did the kids.