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And our next delegate

...is someone who has done path-breaking work in aerospace engineering:...

...Mr Fugga Kumar from India!

You heard that right. From India.

A third-world nation.

A developing nation...

The source of cheap labour.

Where all those tiresome call centre workers live.

The 1-800 number tribe. The ones who say, 'Hello ma'am, how may I help you?

Only think about this: who is the worldwide head of Pepsico?

Who runs Unilever?

Adobe? MasterCard?

Vodafone? Deutsche Bank?

If you don't know maybe you could Google it?

And when you're at it, you might want to check who runs Google.

He's also an Indian.

Columbus set out to find India and discovered America.

After all, every seventh human being on the planet is an Indian.

Someone would have known.

So we all agree that Indians invented the zero.

Shortly after that we forgot how to count.

You must forgive me for speaking in Hindi.

You'll have to adjust a little.

I've done that all my life: adjusted to English.

Not that I have anything against English.

It's a great language.

But to our kind, it was a huge wall.

English stood between us and the wealthy.

It's an important asset, this language, an asset more valuable than money.

My name is Fugga Kumar; Fugga means 'balloon'.

My father used to sell balloons on the street.

He's sitting with us today my father ...

...and my mother!

Once he sold balloons on the road and now he's

sitting with all of you influential people...

And all this because of one man who changed our lives!

This is his story.

This year's Ramunajan Debate Prize goes to Anand Kumar.

- Well done! - You've made us proud of you.

And now the Education Minister....

- What did they give you? - ..will say a few words....

- A foreign journal. - ...in honour of the...

...great mathematician Ramanujan.

The second prize is a foreign journal?

Hooray!

Hooray!

For poor people, life is road to heaven.

Education is road to hell.

You mean 'road to heaven'.

Say, 'education is the road to heaven'.

I know that. I was joking.

Do you like my joke, children?

YES!

Then it was a good joke.

Slow-slow increase love.

Slow-slow increase love.

Watch it cross borders!

Meaning: Love grows slowly and...

...then breaks all barriers.

So as I was saying, Education is the road to heaven.

Study like America, study like England.

Both like to make computer.

Like China, like Japan... Japan like China and both like to invent things.

But...

India is not like America, not like China.

India no making computer no inventions.

India makes...

...people, Human calculators!

- What name was that? - Lallan?

- Not yours, his. - Anand Kumar.

Look...

Anand Kumar...

He is the calculator of Patna, Bihar, India.

So friends, if you need any help, come to my house.

My house is open 24/7.

I give you the keys to my house.

Young Anand, I invite you too.

You need any help...

...emotional, social, economical.

Come to my house...

...24-hour open because India is not international.

You want India to scrape skies?

Long live Ram Singhji!

Long live Ram Singhji!

Future plans?

Further studies...

... Cambridge, Oxford, PhD in math.

Ishwar wants that too.

Ishwar? God?

My father.

You call your father by his first name?

He's my father and I call him that out of love.

Really! But all this is going to take eight or ten years.

True.

I'll lose all my beauty by then.

What beauty?

Oh really?

Some people say I look like a Bollywood star at some angles.

So do I look at you only from those angles?

You don't think I look beautiful?

Facts are facts.

Your face lacks the golden proportion: phi.

- I use ghee every night. - Not ghee, phi.

The number value for beauty. Beauty has a value: 1.618.

Beauty has a number?

You didn't get it? Let me explain.

It's called the golden ratio.

- Look... - That's my photograph!

Could you focus a little?

The ratio of this section to this one should be 1.618.

Whatever is beautiful in nature...

...a flower, a butterfly, a conch, a shell, all of them reveal this ratio.

Isn't that fantastic?

Now look at your face.

The ratio is 1.2.

No phi.

I'm a ratio?

I'm not saying it, the numbers are showing it.

I'll make your ears ring.

What's wrong?

I hope your math warms you at night.

I'm off.

Don't go.

Stay a while.

- Stay a while. - I'm off.

Stay a while.

Okay, tell me, do you love mathematics more or me?

That's what I want to talk about. Sit down for a moment.

Will you say it today?

Here you are.

I've put my feelings down in a letter.

Read it.

- Okay, I'm off. - Where are you going?

I'm late already.

- The new math journals will be in at BHU. - Say 'bye' before you leave!

These are 'feelings'? This is just...

Hey, you, what's your name.

Anand.

Your full name?

You don't look like one of our students.

Outside students are not allowed.

Get out.

Out!

I'm only solving a problem. Give me five minutes.

That's a foreign journal. It has a very high standard.

I know it's foreign.

That's why I come every week from Patna to read it.

Just a few minutes...

Don't bother from now on. Get out.

Let me finish the problem.

As if you're going to solve it. Out!

Everyone has a right to education, sir.

None of your lip.

You dare argue with me?

Get out.

Are you going to lecture me?

Take this and put it back.

Get along with you.

I've asked his full name three or four times.

Not a word out of him!

Get him out of here.

Throw him out.

- Never mind. - Try to get a hold of yourself.

Deep breathing might help.

You might feel better.

Out!

You want to read these journals?

There is a way.

Get an article published in one.

They give you a lifetime subscription.

Got it?

Give me your wallet.

Solved the equation?

Will you take it all?

Mahesh Babu, what's this? Not had lunch yet?

Now tell me quickly, how many stamps for 55 grams to London?

London?

Who's posting to London?

See for yourself who's writing.

Hello, son!

What's this letter?

What's in it?

It's a paper I wrote for a foreign journal.

It's a problem in math no one has ever solved.

And I did it!

So the white man couldn't do it and you have?

Now let's try and encourage the lad.

He's hardly going to write to them that he failed to do it, is he?

It will cost 220 rupees.

I have fifty and another five.

Listen up, folks.

Mr Janardhan?

You too, sir.

I need contributions.

Now give me a good stamp.

If this gets printed, Bihar will be famous.

Nothing of the kind.

This is how the west takes our best talent.

They stole all of this from our religious texts.

And how did they steal from our religious texts?

How?

Because we didn't understand that if you spread knowledge, it doubles.

But if you try to control it, it loses all value.

Here's fifty and five.

The rest will be your contributions.

Here you go.

Spreading knowledge does nothing for anyone, my friend.

Only the king's son becomes the prince.

That's feudal poppycock.

Times have changed.

Now only he who is fit to rule will mount the throne.

I'll be back.

There's work to do.

At least, have your lunch.

Mom sent food.

When I get back.

Ishwar.

I have to tell Kaveri her pension money has come.

- Hello, Uncle. - How are you?

Hello, Uncle.

Stay blessed, child.

Your son will go far away to study.

All your worries are over.

Your son has got a job.

He's sent sweets for you.

Found yourself a girl?

They say you shouldn't hold your urges back too long.

When we're close to each other My heart feels all right.

When we're close to each other My heart feels all right.

The books don't hold my attention You fill up my sight.

Meeting you beats mathematics hollow

In these mistakes, I wallow.

I ask no pardon.

Your love has changed the tectonics of my heart.

I wallow in my mistakes.

I ask no pardon.

Your love has changed the tectonics of my heart.

Here you go.

Why are you smiling?

What? Me smiling? I'm not smiling.

No?

I'm not smiling.

Eat then.

Anand

- What? - She's called you.

Hello?!

Hop on to my cycle,

I promise you the delights

Of several Saturday nights.

Trusting only to God above

And to the power of our love

We'll forget about Monday.

To leave my home to see you

You don't care a bit.

I look for you

What anyone thinks of it

But what does love mean to you? How do I tell you

In the darkness of my life, you're the only bright spot.

I wallow in my mistakes.

I ask no pardon.

Your love has changed the tectonics of my heart.

Brother, forget it.

Jayanti Devi!

What is it?

I think your face has phi in it.

Phi? What does that mean?

Your face sure has it.

Who's getting the good news this time, Rajendarbabu?

Did you win the lottery? You're walking on air!

Jayanti, my dear.

- What is it? - Come here.

What is it?

Where are you?

You'll wake the dead. Here I am.

I'm here, standing in the sun. Stay where I can see you.

Come along, move it.

- Coming. - What's taking you so long?

Do you want the world to hear you?

Good God! Whatever next! Have you run mad?

Had a peg or two? Have a care.

The children are around.

Where are the children?

And how did they come into the world.

- We brought them into being, right? - Shut your face!

What's for lunch?

- What's cooking? - Let me go. I'll tell you.

Pumpkin

Pumpkin, schmumpkin.

Make us a feast, baked bread with real butter.

Ask me why?

Okay, why?

Did we get that gas connection?

You got admission to Cambridge.

- Truly? - How?

Aah!

Anand's article impressed Professor

Richard so much he got you admission and has invited you there himself.

- Where are you off to? - Wow!

I have to tell everyone the good news.

And Jyotiprasad's loan has been passed.

You once asked for my full name?

Here it is.

Cut this to fit Anand.

You know...

...in London it's so cold that your pee turns to ice before it hits the ground.

What rubbish you talk!

This coat has holes in it.

Patch it with my shawl.

What are you doing?

You'll feel cold.

Nonsense. I don't feel the cold.

I'm too hot.

Wah!

You have to stop laughing if you want me to take a picture,

Sorry, sorry, I won't laugh.

I promise not to smile.

One...two...three!

This is the first passport in the family.

Come in, come in...This is Anand.

Namaste.

Oh this is the Cambridge don in the making?

He is.

Very good, very good.

- Proud of you and all that. - Thank you, sir.

After All...

...people from your society don't really get that far, do they?

You've got admission, right?

But will you manage to get there?

England isn't next door, you know.

My father paid half by taking a loan against his provident fund.

Really?

And the Education Minister said he would help.

He'll cover the rest.

- The Education Minister? - Yes.

The money?

Anyway...all the best!

Thank you.

Don't mention it.

Hold my hand.

Hurry it up. We shouldn't miss the boat.

Come along, come on.

You haven't bathed?

Really?

The shampoo is over?

Never mind, never mind.

But you can go into the kitchen, can't you?

I've not eaten a thing since morning.

Just betel leaf? My stomach is growling.

Send me a glass of aloe vera juice, will you?

But it won't give me gas, no?

I'm meeting the Great Unwashed...

Hello, sir.

And how may I help you?

You do remember, sir?

You do remember, sir? You said you would help?

When you came to my college?

I did invite you, yes, indeed.

I invite anyone who has done good work for the country.

You did good work and so I invited you.

And today I proclaim...

...that if anyone wishes to do something for his country.

I will invite him again and again.

Yes indeed.

Sir, sir, you may have forgotten...

...but you said you would help me with money.

I have got admission...

Money? Did you say money?

Oh no, no, no-o-o...

Do not start thinking about money at this age.

What will become of you...? Is this your father?

Yes.

Greetings, greetings, but you must explain this to your lad.

Keep him away from money.

He must not fall into money's honeyed trap.

He must stay away from women and money.

At this time of his life, he must depend only on the magic of hard work.

Did Bhagat Singh ever think of money?

- Did he? - No.

No?

I'm not explaining things clearly.

That day you blessed me...

I have got admission abroad.

I want to go abroad, I need your...

- You're going abroad, are you? - That's right.

Which country?

I've got admission to Cambridge.

- Cambridge? - Yes.

Very good. You should go.

Go to Cambridge.

Go to France. Go to Britain. Go to America.

Go to UK, go to New York, go to New Jersey, go to Bahrain...

...go to China, go to Japan, go to Tokyo, go to Beijing....

Wow...I think that's a poem.

But never forget your native land.

Never forget the land where the Ganga flows... the land where the Buddha...

well, His land anyway.

Very nice. Go away.

Go away.

Happy journey, happy journey, you can go.

- Happy journey, - go.

Who's next?

- Sir, I don't think you understand... - Time's up.

One minute.

Come along, you lot...

Hand those over...

I'm Anand Kumar

I told you, time's up.

Is there a little salt in this?

Yes, yes.

- I told you, time's up. - Sir.

I'm Anand Kumar..

- You're done here. - One moment

- You've taken twenty minutes already. - Didn't you talk to him?

And then there are all these people who want the minister's help.

Get up now. The minister has other work.

- I'm trying to...Let me tell him... - On your feet.

What are you doing?

What are you doing?

There are two hundred people and only two hours...how will we manage?

Make it easy on yourself. Get up.

Get me some room-temperature water

What's this?

I'll catch my death of cold.

Sir, you promised...

Not cold water, room temperature...

I'll catch cold.

Move on, now.

One minute!

You gave me this medal, do you remember?

Wonderful, the minister has seen it, now will you move?

Take this away and get me room temperature water.

Move along, move along.

Don't worry..

We'll get you to England

You took out all your PF, didn't you?

No other way we can help.

Rajendra Babu, why struggle like this?

Let me put in a word and fix them up in the post office.

I'll speak myself.

I can give you seven thousand.

You have to put something up as collateral.

Is the house in your name?

If you can't put the house up...

...it's difficult.

Is there no loan to help educate a child?

No such loan.

And what do we do in the night?

We go to sleep.

And what do we do then?

We dream.

And what do we do in the day?

We make the dreams come true.

Gopal, I really need my money back.

Can you arrange something?

I wish I could.

I spent so much on Bijlee's dowry.

Life doesn't end if you don't go to Cambridge, does it?

You are my son, after all.

Here, eat this.

- What happened? - Dad?!

Oh God!

- Oh God! - Ishwar?

Give him some water.

Ma, stay right here.

Anand, carefully now...

Pranav, bring the cycle.

Coming, coming.

Wait.

Hold on.

Got some money?

Don't worry. I have some.

Where did they go?

Come on, quick...

Hold on tight.

Take your slippers!

We won't let anything happen to him

Where did they go?

Try to go faster. Pedal faster!

We're close now, the hospital is here.

Quick, quick...

- Pranav... - Faster, faster.

The chain broke!

Ishwar!

You shouldn't think of a future with me.

Marry someone else.

Forget about me.

Just because my face lacks the golden mean?

Right?

Poppadums, poppadums!

Poppadums, hello, mister!

Poppadums, poppadums! Coming ma'am.

Buy my poppadums!

Buy my poppadums, crisp and crackly!

Five rupees a packet... fine spicy poppadums!

- Five rupees - Come towards me.

- Poppadums? - How much?

- Show me - Give them to me.

Sir, my money?

Half a rupee less?

Will do.

Hey Mr Poppadum Man!

Yes, ma'am?

How much for a packet?

Five rupees for a packet.

Give me two.

- Two? - Yes, please

There you go.

Here you go, ten rupees, please.

Here you go.

Hello, idiot!

Do you have eyes or potatoes in your head?

Can't you see such a big car?

If you must kill yourself Use the good offices of the Ganga.

Anand Kumar?

You're Anand Kumar, aren't you?

What's this, have you bought up the city's entire supply of papads?

Bought them? I'm selling them.

Papads?

But how do you know me?

If I would not know the city's most brilliant mind, who would?

Perhaps you don't know me.

My name is Lallan Singh.

You won the Ramanujan Gold Medal in 1997

I was there.

I won it in 1987.

I'm also a gold medallist.

Srinivasa Ramanujam was once my hero too.

Then I discovered that the real hero is elsewhere.

Listen to me.

Before you discover zero

you must discover the other nine numbers.

Zero achieves its value only after it joins them.

What is this, a man like you selling poppadums?

You have talent.

- Come here, you. - Yes, sir.

- Get over here. - Coming.

Come this way.

Bring the cycle along.

Give him your cycle.

I am a teacher, Anand Babu, I can recognise talent.

Come with me.

Take it easy.

Sit back.

Put the glass up.

We shall travel in style, with air-conditioning!

IIT.

Indian Institute of Technology.

One applicant out of every hundred thousand gets in.

The rich are willing to pay anything to get their kids in.

Hundreds of thousands of rupees change hands at the coaching classes.

In Kota, in Gujarat, it's a business and the dividends are high.

Politicians, businessmen, everyone wants to put their money into this business.

All the best university professors and college lecturers teach there and here as well.

I've started my own coaching class in Patna: The Excellence Coaching Centre.

Anandji, join me as a coach for princes, a Dronacharya from the Mahabharata...

...and together we will groom a new prince, a new Arjuna each year.

Now let me introduce you to the numbers that give zero its meaning.

Good morning, sir.

Good morning.

This is Anand Kumar.

He is a brilliant teacher and under his guidance you,

...my VIP students will get a VIP entry into IIT.

Anandji, all yours.

- Think carefully. - I've thought about it deeply, Mishraji.

We'll make Anandji a star...

...and we'll rake in big money.

Anand Kumar will now teach at Excellence Classes.

Hey buddy, make it quick.

We'll celebrate with sweets.

Anandji, our admission rate has doubled.

Sit down...sit down.

Our ads have appeared in the papers.

Here, a full page and here, a half page.

Look at this.

It is time for you to get a vehicle of your own.

This seems old and weak.

It looks weary too.

Brother, look at that one.

Money has come into the room.

Money will dispel the gloom.

Money will light up the dark.

Money is a walk in the park.

Money will dispel the gloom.

You got what you asked for.

This is all about the illusion money spins.

Money falls around you like rain.

Money will dispel your pain.

Maa, Look who's here.

- Who? - Here she is

This is Phoolwa.

She is going to do all the house work...

...and you're going to rest.

What do you want to become?

Computer engineering has the highest pay so...

That clarity will help you get there.

You are now an authorised signatory and this is a little gift.

If m1 equals m2, what is the equation of the straight line?

Who will try?

Y-1 = X-1

How can anyone be so wrong?

Got it?

They've come to pay but they can't afford the fees.

They were asking about any scholarship...

No such thing.

On the ground floor, your coaching class

and on the first floor, a restaurant, a bar and a huge banquet hall.

Patna's elite will celebrate their weddings there.

The land is available for a song because it's for educational purposes.

Get it? What did I tell you?

Education is the road to heaven.

And business is the means to get on to that road.

And at this time, education is the best business.

If you've longed to do it, do it now.

What do you care about others?

The road is long and you can't turn back.

Those who shredded your letters unread

Will now hang on your every word.

They'll look at you with new eyes.

You've left your troubles behind.

And now there's a smile that you've learned.

This is the illusion of money, its power.

Money falls around you like rain.

Money has come into the room.

Money will dispel the gloom.

Money will light up the dark.

Money is a walk in the park.

Reading some hot stuff?

No sir.

Mathematics.

Odd.

You have a yen for learning?

Huge.

Which class are you in?

I had to leave school.

Do you understand this stuff?

I solve it too.

Try substituting Log X for T.

Is it done?

Bugger! Drop those books and come do the dishes.

Coming in just a minute.

They're calling you. Come fast, you idiot!

I'm there. In a minute.

Just let me...thank you.

Where to? Can I drop you somewhere?

Thank you, let's go.

Loves studying, does he?

Who? Radhe Mohan?

Sir, he's nuts. He keeps studying on his own.

I tried to drum some sense into him: this won't get you anywhere.

Why do you think that way?

What's there to think, sir?

Do you remember the tribal boy Ekalavya in the Mahabharata?

He was better than Arjun at archery so what did their teacher Dronacharya ask of him?

What?

He asked for his thumb to be chopped off.

Why?

Just so that Prince Arjun would not lose his position as the best archer.

Nothing has changed.

The sons of kings will still be kings.

You're talking feudal poppycock!

The world has changed now.

The king's son won't inherit.

He who deserves to rule will mount the throne.

Who will break this tradition?

Like the Dronacharyas of the Mahabharat, teachers today partner with kings.

And that's how it will always be.

Isn't it?

We will still demand the thumbs of our Ekalavyas.

And the princes will still be considered the smartest.

Who will change things?

By the way. what work do you do?

I had to leave school.

No provisions for such loans...

No provisions for that.

Education is everyone's right.

- Will you study, Master Puppet? - I will study!

- Will you go to IIT, Master Puppet? - I will go.

Do you have the money, Master Puppet?

I don't.

Then what will you become, Master Puppet?

Mister Puppet.

You need sweaty wads of cash, or your studies will be a car crash.

What is the need to do all this?

Everything is going so well.

For whom?

For us. The family is...

We're doing well. The family is...

Anand Sir will coach poor kids... Free coaching...poor kids

Anand Sir will coach poor kids...poor kids... Free coaching...

Hear ye, hear ye...

Anand Sir will coach poor kids... Free coaching...

Admissions have started.

Sir, sir

What is it, Mishra?

Anandji is opening his own centre.

His own centre?

- Yes, sir. - Thank you.

Must we have a hostel too?

Feeding them, clothing them, the books, the electricity, the water bills.

It's perfect.

Take it.

Where is Anand Sir?

We paid premium fees for his class.

Is he coming back or not?

We don't want these second-rate teachers.

We will demand a refund. You'll see.

Keep it well.

Why did you quit your job?

How much can I fight my father?

Even when Cambridge didn't work out,

I said you had a future with the coaching classes.

And where are the kids for whom you're making this sacrifice?

Where are they?

This is good work, I agree, but I have to pay the price.

My father wants me to marry an IAS officer.

Never mind, I'll spend my life with some stranger.

But I warn you, your life will be ruined just as much as you have ruined mine.

Here's your stupid love letter.

No one will come to this centre of yours.

You will drown and you will drown alone.

Put this money away with the rest.

There's lots to be done still.

Master, Master.

Master...

Master, from tomorrow, Suresh will not come to work.

Why not?

He's going to Patna to study, to try and get into IIT.

- IIT? - Yes.

And what will he do with a degree from IIT?

I want to join NASA; I want to look for life on other planets.

You?

You've never seen an electric bulb,

You've never watched TV.

You've never seen a city and you want to look for life on other planets?

Get back to work quietly.

Learn: and you conquer the world.

But learn to know your self.

Learn: and obstacles are defeated.

But learn if those habits are your own.

To learn is to crush all woes.

Do you think you'll reach the kind of kids you want to reach out to?

All I know is that there's no turning back.

Learning is your auspicious shield

Learn: for it levels the field.

He who learns will conquer the world.

Learn: for justice comes flowing from learning.

Learn: it makes you sure of who you are

All human happiness is tied up with learning.

I don't want anything less than 30 students."

We can't pay for thirty.

We can try.

Raghunath Bharat reporting, sir.

You wanted a scoop?

In this day and age when everyone has made education into a business...

...he's giving it away free?

"I want us to write about him."

Free tuitions for the poor.

The admissions have started.

Free tuitions for the poor.

The admissions have started.

Sell this as well.

Sell it. Sell it.

What will you do at IIT?

Learn about the theory of relativity.

What is that about?

One way to understand it?

If you travel at the speed of light, time starts running backwards.

Do you have bus fare?

No.

How do you plan to get there?

The same way man got to the Moon.

Here, here's the money.

Study hard.

Don't worry about me at all.

Hey, hey.

Run, Urmila, run.