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Srikanth review: Rao is braille-ant!

SrikanthCast ( voices): Rajkummar Rao, Jyothika, Sharad KelkarDirectors: Tushar HiranandaniRating: 3/5 Up until this film’s half-time, I felt I could’ve simply google-searched this biopic. Only, I wouldn’t find actor Rajkummar Rao in it. That is, Rao, playing a visually impaired Srikanth Bolla, on whose life this engaging, eponymous corporate film is based—linearly detailing a series of professional milestones, that made Bolla go from a poor boy in Machilipatnam, to MIT in Boston; eventually setting up an industry that employed other visually impaired. Making him an icon of sorts. Fit enough for a Bollywood biopic. Like several such that already exist, and will continue to. It’s not that the achievements are minor. They’re frickin’ something else! Consider a math-geek, into sport, who made it to the Indian team for blind cricket—hitting some sort of a world record at baseball in the US—after becoming an agent of change in law, back home in India. Wherein the visually impaired weren’t even allowed to pursue science in college. Not that it’s my concern, at the moment, as an audience, …