Patna: Basking in the glory of Ranbir Kapoor-starrer 'Barfi!', based on a strong narrative, Bollywood director Anurag Basu is now said to be set to helm an issue-based film on Bihar's innovative educational coaching institute 'Super 30', and its founder Anand Kumar.
For the last 10 years, Kumar has been grooming talented students from underprivileged families for the highly competitive Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE).
The film "will make a great story of how students from poor families turn a new leaf with just the right opportunity - something even reservation and other incentives have not been able to do", sources close to Basu said.
Basu has met Anand Kumar and talked to him. According to sources, if it comes through, Ranbir, who has essayed a deaf and mute boy in Basu's 'Barfi!', could be playing the lead role of Anand Kumar in this venture. ...
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11:04 AM, Sep 19, 2012
Patna: A daily wage labourer, a security guard, a grocer, a marginal farmer and a truck mechanic are among the proud fathers whose sons have cracked the highly-competitive IIT-JEE exam this year, thanks to Super 30, a free coaching centre for underprivileged students in Bihar. This year, 27 of the 30 students from Bihar's Super 30 cracked the Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination. Shailesh Kumar and Biswajit Behera are...
05:59 PM, May 18, 2012
Patna: In another big score, 27 of the 30 students from Bihar's Super 30, a free coaching centre for underprivileged students, have cracked the highly competitive Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) this year, its director said on Friday. "It is again good news that this year, 27 out of the 30 students made it to the IIT-JEE... it has underlined how with proper opportunity, students from poor families...
10:54 AM, May 18, 2012
Kaimur: Some young Naxal cadres, who till very recently, were part of the armed movement, are now training with the state police force in Bihar. This has happened because of an initiative called Naxal Super 30, launched by the Kaimur district police. A total of 30 tribal youths are now a part of the training exercise. "We would have become Naxals had we not been shown a road ahead. If...
08:41 AM, Apr 30, 2012
Patna: After inspiring Amitabh Bachchan's character in Aarakshan, mathematician Anand Kumar of the Super 30 fame is set to get a full-fledged movie based on his life. With Ranbir Kapoor playing the Anand on screen, sources claim that the movie will be directed by Anurag Basu. Super 30 is an initiative by Anand where he grooms 30 poor children from rural and impoverished backgrounds for the highly competitive IIT-JEE. Basu...
06:35 PM, Nov 21, 2011
Patna: Anand Kumar, who founded Super 30, Bihar's widely acclaimed free coaching centre for Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) aspirants, has blamed the institutes' entrance exam panel for the poor quality of students making the cut, a concern voiced by Infosys chairman emeritus NR Narayana Murthy. Anand Kumar said if poor quality students, as felt by Narayan Murthy, were able to get into the IITs, it was the responsibility of...
01:26 PM, Oct 05, 2011
Patna: The Bihar government appointed Abhayanand, senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of 1977 batch as the next Director General of Police. Abhayanand, presently the Additional Director General of Police, Training, will take over from the incumbent DGP Neelmani upon his superannuation on August 31, Home Secretary Amir Subhani said in Patna on Wednesday. The state government also promoted three senior IPS officers Shafi Alam, AK Gupta and RC Sinha...
09:35 PM, Aug 24, 2011
Patna: Twenty-four students from underprivileged sections, of the total 30, have this time made it to the IIT-JEE from the 'Super 30' founded by mathematics wizard Anand Kumar. With this the total number of Super 30 students, having qualified for the IIT-JEE in the last nine years, have gone upto 236, Kumar said on Wednesday. Be it the ward of a roadside vendor, mobile mechanic, marginal farmer or truck driver...
11:44 AM, May 25, 2011
Patna: Hollywood filmmaker James Cameron was all ears when Anand Kumar, who founded Bihar's Super 30 free coaching centre for students, narrated the real life stories of hope that his institute has generated year after year. "Cameron told me it was amazing to listen to my real life stories of hope. He was so impressed that he hinted at using such stories with people across the world," Kumar, who shared...
03:27 PM, Dec 14, 2010
Anand Kumar runs an institute where he helps poor talented students with free food and coaching to achieve their dream of making it to the IITs. ...
06:41 PM, Nov 27, 2010
All students of Bihar's free coaching centre, Super 30, have been cracking the IIT-JEE for the last three year. ...
05:00 PM, Jun 01, 2010
Sarvesh Kumar's mother stitches clothes while his father is engaged in farming. ...
10:03 PM, May 26, 2010
The coaching centre for poor students is selected by the
Time magazine in the list of the Best of Asia 2010. ...
10:26 PM, May 14, 2010
Dubai: Senior Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar was presented the Wisden India Outstanding Achievement award for completing a century of 100 international hundreds in Dubai. Tendulkar had achieved the milestone while playing against Bangladesh in the Asia Cup in March. The event was organised by FidelisWorld and the iconic batsman was presented with a trophy. Made from crystal, it features a cricket ball resting on the open pages of a book....
08:42 PM, May 30, 2008
New Delhi: Terming Tuesday's spot-fixing verdict as just a tip of the iceberg, former Indian Premier Premier Chairman Lalit Modi said not only the players but umpires and administrators are also involved in the fixing menace. It's not only Players that fix matches. Sometimes there are Umpires too in connivance with administrators, Modi tweeted after a London court found banned Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif guilty of spot-fixing...
02:42 PM, Mar 14, 2008
Super 30 was started five years ago and had been coaching promising but socially backward and poor IIT aspirants. ...
10:15 AM, May 31, 2007
