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.
Bodhisattva Sharma
as Vivek Singh
Samta Sudiksha
as Sarika Kumari
Shashi Bhushan
as R. K. Singh
Sheeba Chaddha
as Kalpana Bundela
गीता अग्रवाल शर्मा
as Manju Singh
Neeraj
as Chandan
Ayush Pandey
as Rinku
Saadat Khan
as Mohit Verma
Abhay Joshi
as Raghu Uncle
Shreedhar Dubey
as Sanjay Kumar
Ananyabrata Chakravorty
as S. K. Joshi
Amit Shirivastava
as Gupta Ji
