Scoundrel!
Why didn't you tell us?
What are you talking about?
Happy birthday, Vaibhav!
I will never forget the first time we met.
You were in the corridor and I--
-It's not-- -Let me complete my sentence.
As soon as I saw you, I knew that...
I had found a companion on my journey to IIT Bombay for Computer Science.
Meena, it is not my birthday.
Do rich people like you eat cake whenever they want?
Shit!
I had been to Maheshwari to check Vartika's results.
I saw a cake shop on my way. So I bought a cake.
I thought she would be happy if I share the good news.
She'll give me some credit.
I will feel like a hero.
And you will get to kiss her!
Right, bro?
You were right. What happened?
I saw the results.
Vartika didn't make it. I did.
Are you sure? Did you check it properly?
Eight times. I've checked it eight times!
She didn't make it despite studying so hard?
She's really dumb!
But she's a good choice for a girlfriend.
No. Many students took the test!
Somesh! Shubham!
Alok! Utsav!
All their names were on the list.
-Our friend Shubham? -Yes.
Maheshwari has batches of 80 students.
If they had batches of 200 students, Vartika would have made it.
Which batch did you get?
A3.
Great!
If the teacher didn't make it to the first batch,
how can he expect his student to get selected?
-You are just like Batla. -Hey!
Abhigyan made it to A3 as well.
A3 students from Maheshwari have an 80% chance
of getting selected for JEE.
I just took the test for her.
What's the problem?
It's a good thing that she didn't make it.
How is it good?
She must be very sad. She could be crying in her room.
It will make me feel bad to see her sad.
Forget the hero moment,
I don't have the nerve to go see her.
Listen.
You have made it to A1 but you have the same old A10 mentality.
Don't think about the present.
Think about the future.
Look, if she had made it, she would have gone to Vigyan Nagar.
You would be stuck in Talwandi.
How would you meet her every day?
It's been four months since you came to Kota, right?
How many times have you been to Vidgyan Nagar?
We could meet midway, right?
Sure, you would go. She wouldn't come every time!
You were lucky.
Look, now you can
practice chemistry on the streets of Talwandi throughout the year.
Win her heart.
You can do what Mr. Uday wants you to do as well.
Shit!
Meena... you have become very smart.
Of course. I'm an A1 student!
Wonderful!
What do you say, brothers?
-Should we have the cake? -Yes, Of course.
It's been seven years since I've had a cake.
What?
Eat.
It's a call from the coaching institute.
We have time to pay the fees. Why are they calling now?
Hello.
We need a candle!
What?
I thought you'd be mourning.
No. I'm okay.
Yes, I could tell when I saw the bread and jam.
But how are you so chilled out?
You are relaxed because your hero made it, right?
Listen. I'm happy for him but he's not my hero.
I've don't really get you girls!
If you like the boy, go and ask him out!
No. First, we'll have a secret romance.
Then we'll wait for him to ask us out!
Then we'll think if we want to say yes!
Just a minute.
Why should I ask him out?
That means you like him, right?
Don't do this again!
Vaibhav is the one who needs to hear this!
We're living in a modern era, ma'am!
The kind of guy you have picked,
in your case you'll have to ask him out and initiate the first kiss as well.
Like you asked Uday out?
I would. I don't have a problem with it!
But I didn't need to. He isn't a pussy.
Alright. If he is such a pussy, then let it be.
Are you having doubts?
Don't worry about it!
He will say yes. He's really interested.
Did Uday tell you?
Ma'am...
why do you think Shivangi Ranawat is so popular in West Vihar?
She can sniff romance.
And Uday did tell me.
Look, you can take my advice if you wish
-but there's no compulsion. -Wait!
What did Uday say?
Sir, we just took the test for fun.
Six hours.
Paper one. Paper two.
240 questions.
You did it for fun?
Great!
Yes, sir.
I did it for fun as well.
We will be competing in JEE with the same students who take Maheshwari's test.
So, one should know who he is competing with.
That's the reason I took it.
That's a great excuse!
I mean, I did it for the same reason, sir.
To check the competition!
Really?
He's lying, sir!
He got there 30 minutes early.
He had his sister with him. She took the test as well!
She is not my sister.
What were you thinking, Vaibhav Pandey?
Our top students will take Maheshwari's entrance test...
and we wouldn't know?
What is your problem anyway?
You don't talk to me.
All of you are the real prodigies.
We are here for you.
I've said this earlier as well. A1 students are my top-ranking students!
The rest are my bankers.
I don't care about them.
Tell me, Shubham.
What problem do you have here?
Alok?
Vaibhav?
What is so wrong with Prodigy classes?
Do you guys have any suggestions?
You have no problem?
Alright. Tell me what's great about Maheshwari?
How are they better?
Look.
They have selected you and so have we.
But here, you will be our best students.
You will receive a prize.
We pay the IIT fees of our top ten students as well!
We spend way more on marketing than they do.
Look at him.
Rijul Jain.
His All India Rank was 19.
We plastered his face all over the city.
We gave him a BMW.
We made him a star.
A hero.
He received four proposals at the age of 18.
Does that mean nothing?
Will they print such big posters?
They will print a tiny one.
Look, boys. If you move now, your routine will suffer.
Plus, they will focus more on their top-ranking students
who have been with them since the 11th grade.
I know that Somesh is weak at S block.
Vaibhav is not good at equilibrium.
I'll take extra classes.
I'll give him practice question papers.
I will solve his doubts.
Are you going to receive such personal care over there? Tell me.
-Will you? -Yes, sir.
I understand. I won't leave.
Ask me if you have any doubts?
Tell me.
-Is everyone sure? -Yes, sir!
I mean, me too, sir. Me neither, sir. Not leaving, sir.
Did you pay the fees for the 12th grade?
-No, sir. I have to. -Sir, Dad will do it.
-It will be paid, sir. -We'll pay, sir.
-We'll pay it, sir. -Yes, sir.
If you haven't paid, it is okay and if you have paid it, don't worry.
We will refund it.
Twenty percent extra scholarship for the A1 batch.
If you go there you will have to pay more fees...
and we are giving you scholarships.
Okay?
Fine.
Give them the booklets.
Give them my number as well.
My personal number.
Okay?
Well, alright. Dismissed.
-Thank you, sir. -Thank you, sir.
Sorry, sir.
You have a list of their names, right?
Call their parents.
We help them get through NTSE, KVPY and Olympiad...
and these scoundrels will get ranks for Maheshwari.
Don't worry about it, sir.
I've spoken to them. They won't go!
Mr. Batla, in the coaching business it's all about a year.
If they don't get a rank this year we won't get admissions next year.
How long will we print his photo anyway?
He's very ugly!
Yes, sir. That's true.
But, sir, when a respected man talks to the children...
they definitely listen to him.
Correct.
Let Mr. Jeetu talk to them. They'll listen to him.
-He knew your name? -Well...
he gave me this card and his personal number as well.
-And he gave me a scholarship as well. -Show me.
Work hard!
I won't share it!
I'm sure Deepak must have been shocked when he came to know about it.
Yes!
He talked to us politely!
My dad has never spoken to me so politely.
And Batla was being really sentimental.
He will surely get a promotion.
He said, "Now that you are in A1, everything will be alright."
We have misunderstood Batla.
He knows that I am weak at equilibrium.
He said, "We can have extra classes."
Students who leave Maheshwari and stay with Prodigy gain respect.
I had left Maheshwari last year, but I didn't get any.
I think I should try again! When is the next test?
It's useless, buddy!
The top-ranking students have already done it!
That's right. Their batches are going to begin anyway.
You can take the test next year!
But nobody is going to go.
Why?
They took the test just to check out the competition.
We've worked so hard to get to A1. Why would they leave now?
Yes, that is correct.
Hey, Somesh!
Shubham, we have been studying together for the past one year.
You never told me you are a Bihari.
-No, I am Oriya. From Kalahandi. -Okay!
Do you mean you don't talk like, "We're doing this" or "We're saying that?"
No.
Then why the fuck were you using "we" over there?
That's what we decided we would say.
You swine! You were supposed to say you aren't going.
If you say "We", he'll know that we have a group, right?
Lord knows what kind of idiots make it to Maheshwari.
Give me the dessert.
Bro, they are leaving.
Next time anyone asks you'll say, "I am not going".
If he asks about the others, you'll say "I don't know.
I haven't spoken to anyone about it."
These guys will hound us otherwise.
I think, what Batla said made sense.
Don't listen to him. He was talking nonsense!
You are weak at S block because he didn't teach it well.
Batla is jealous of us.
He wants to go to Maheshwari himself.
But Maheshwari does not employ non-IITian teachers.
We have made it to A1 somehow, right?
We will deal with it.
Any idiot can make it to A1 over here.
Try getting into the A1 batch at Maheshwari.
It is the best institute in this country!
These people cannot handle JEE.
Their students are cracking one Olympiad after another.
They will give you this emotional crap in the future as well!
Don't listen to them!
You know why?
Because they have several things at Maheshwari that are missing here.
But they don't have anything over here that is missing at Maheshwari.
Jeetu Bhaiya?
I am not leaving, Bhaiya.
I have already started studying electrostatics.
Why did you take the test?
For fun!
I wanted check the competition out.
Did you see? Did you make it to A1?
I made it to A3.
But I am not leaving, Bhaiya.
Shubham, is your friend leaving or not?
Bhaiya, I am not leaving.
I don't know about him.
Because we haven't discussed it. I can only tell you about my plans.
-You haven't discussed it? -No.
You are friends. Friends should discuss these things.
We aren't friends, Bhaiya.
He doesn't even know I am Oriya.
-From Kalahandi, right? -Yes. But I am not leaving.
-That's right, Bhaiya. -We are not leaving.
Well, alright. There's no point then.
Go. Chill.
What?
Bhaiya!
I heard both Shubham and Alok talking in the mess.
Both of them are going to Maheshwari.
I can say that for sure.
I know.
This happens every year.
I know that you aren't going, but in fact, you should go.
Every year we have someone like you as well.
Please stop teasing me, Bhaiya.
I took the test just for Vartika--
I'll tell you later. But I don't want to go.
You did the right thing.
Now that you have been selected you should go.
Look, you can manage physics.
You have a problem with chemistry and math.
Now that you are giving up inorganic,
you have to strengthen organic and physical, right?
They're really good at it!
But I am settled here, Bhaiya.
Everything is going well.
Why would I leave?
How will you grow if you don't go? Tell me.
They say, "If you're the smartest in your class,
you're in the wrong class."
Who are you competing with here?
Your competition is going to Maheshwari.
Your mates, Shubham and Alok. All of them will leave.
Rather than getting complacent in A1 over here...
you'll be better off struggling in A3 over there.
Make your way to A1!
But you are here, Bhaiya.
How many people are you going to fall in love with at one time?
You don't understand.
You must continue to move if you wish to grow.
If you want to watch my lecture, I'm available on Unacademy every week.
Watch me live!
One has to give up on some things.
There's no reason to be remorseful.
Right!
Won't you be hurt if one of your students leaves
to go to another Institute?
I will be more hurt if he doesn't go and he's not selected.
We fixed some of your weaknesses and they will fix some.
Right.
You told me I am not alone. I should not be nervous.
We will crack IIT.
We will fight together right up to the last minute.
I am fighting.
Your selection is important.
Where you get selected from was never important.
What's wrong?
Bhaiya, from the first day that I got here...
it had been my dream to have my photo up here!
-So, they will put your photo up! -Not over there.
Over here! The place where you are at.
Look, Arjun learned from Indra. He learned from Shiva as well.
Still he was known as Dronacharya's student, right?
I put "ex-Agarwalite" in front of my name, right?
If I were in your shoes I would go.
Because we don't have anything here that they don't have over there.
Have you spoken to Vaibhav?
No. I called him but I didn't get through to him.
He must be at the institute, I guess.
He will call back.
I spoke to Uday.
So...
Vaibhav's admin had summoned him...
along with the other kids who are going to Maheshwari.
-He's leaving? -No.
Right. That's the reason you asked me if I had spoken to him.
To cross-check?
Listen. He won't go if you tell him to not go.
Why should I tell him?
Wouldn't I go if I were in his shoes?
Wasn't that the reason we took the test?
Neither of you were prepared for the test!
He didn't even want to take the test!
All week long he set everything aside,
to help you prepare for the test, right?
He could've gone home, right? He did not go.
Because he likes you, Vartika.
He likes you.
Do you want me to talk to him if you can't talk?
No, don't!
Look, it'll be good for him if he goes to Maheshwari, right?
-They have everything over there. -But not you.
Look, I'm not saying this for the sake of your lovey-dovey romance.
I don't give a shit about it.
You two had set a goal that you were following.
He would never study on his own as much as he studies with you.
You completed the entire syllabus of the 11th grade in one week,
and you've started studying for 12th grade.
Have you ever done this? No, right?
You will benefit, if you are together.
He knows this. The only problem is that he won't tell you.
So, you tell him.
You help him.
Don't leave him hanging.
He will come help you if you ever have a problem, right?
Jeetu Bhaiya is wrong! Tell me.
You tell me. What do they have over there?
Eighty percent of the A3 batch from Maheshwari get selected, right?
20 percent of them are not selected! Jeetu Bhaiya didn't tell you that.
You don't wake up on time for classes. I wake you up.
How are you going to manage?
Jeetu Bhaiya didn't tell you that. Did you discuss this?
We were just talking, man!
Besides, we will stay in touch, Meena.
Why are you worried?
Really? Do you meet Piyush?
He was your schoolmate, right?
How many times have you met him in all these months?
If you go there you won't have time.
You owe me seven puff pastries as well!
You can't leave until I get my pastries!
That's it!
I haven't made my decision, man!
I don't know!
Deepak and Bhaiya are confusing me.
-I can't understand anything. -This is what I mean!
This is what I mean!
I am the one who explains everything to you.
You need me!
Talk to him, Uday. I'll talk to him as well.
You are not leaving. Okay?
Tell him, Uday.
-What can I say? -Please tell him that he can't leave!
What does it matter?
He came here to prepare for IIT, right?
Right?
So, do that.
It feels like we have come to Kota right now. We are having fun,
we are going out, studying,
creating memories...
and building friendships.
But if we don't get the desired result at the end of all this...
we won't feel like looking back on these times.
It stays with us as a bad memory.
If we aren't selected...
all our mischiefs...
will haunt us as mistakes.
We are at that age.
We are unable to see the future.
You are having doubts, right?
-Talk to your dad. -You always listen to your dad, right?
I am unable to follow his instructions.
It does not mean that I don't listen to him!
I can't do it.
I am unable to concentrate.
I cannot study for six hours like you guys.
What should I do?
You tell me, Meena. What should I do?
Tell me. Should I jump from the roof, hang myself or run away?
I can't go back home either!
People will ask me, "What happened?
You wanted to join IIT. You didn't get into IIT?"
I feel ashamed of myself when I look at you, Meena.
I feel ashamed to look at what you've achieved despite your background.
I have everything.
Despite having everything, I've failed to achieve anything.
I am useless!
My father is an IRS Officer.
How do I tell him...
I am worthless, I won't be able to crack the IIT exams.
Please pardon me!
How do I tell him, Meena?
Talk to your dad.
Do what he tells you to do.
Your parents' decision could be wrong...
but their intention is never wrong.
We have to take this object from location A to location B.
Correct?
It won't get there on its own.
It needs to be pushed.
This object needs a push like every person needs a push.
So, we shall apply force.
We will only apply enough force...
to push it from its neutral point.
Its own potential will take it the rest of the way.
Correct?
I've told you a lot about this problem.
Solve the rest of it and bring it back to the next class.
When will we be meeting next?
On Thursday. So, you have two days.
Till we meet again...
solve the problem.
Sit. Sit.
What's wrong?
Have you decided?
This is for you.
For me?
Thank you...
for everything.
Expensive stuff!
If you are spending so much on me then, what is the name of that girl?
You must be spending a lot on Vernali.
Vartika.
You are hitting on two girls at once?
Just drop it, Bhaiya.
Come. I'll show you something.
Come on.
Over here.
Will you take off your shoes or just let it be?
Do you see these?
This is Armani.
This is Gucci.
I think this one isn't even available in India.
You see those shoes?
All of them are LV.
All these watches... Rado, Rolex.
Shah Rukh endorses this one.
I wonder what's written here in French.
Why are you showing off, Bhaiya?
I have to.
These are gifts from my students.
This is what I've really earned.
I don't wear them but I look best in them.
Shubham from IIT Bombay. Then MIT.
This is from Akash. IIT Kanpur. CS dropout.
Then Microsoft.
He has a start-up now. Lord knows what he's going to do.
That's from Chirag.
This is from Jhanvi.
Like you, all of them had brought gifts for me.
I didn't accept.
I've nothing against gifts. I do accept gifts...
as long as they're bought with your money.
Not with your father's money.
Work hard.
Complete your studies.
And after you become successful...
if you still remember someone called Jeetu Bhaiya or Mr. Jeetu...
then bring me a gift. I'll definitely accept it.
And I want a better gift!
Keep it.
Take care of it.
Make good use of it...
and go to Maheshwari.
Okay?
Say something, bro.
Go.
Didn't Vartika come?
Did you call and ask her to come?
Man!
I just couldn't call her.
Will you do something for me?
Will you please give her these notes?
Why?
Can't you do it yourself?
-Lord knows when I'll see her. -Not my problem.
Give it to her yourself.
Any more bags?
No.
Well, take care.
Stay in touch.
I have put the extension cord in your bag.
He is demanding 150 rupees. Don't give him more than 100.
Meena.
Seven onion puff pastries.
I owed you!
I am settling the scores before leaving.
-Take it. -No, you keep it.
The mess won't be open when you get there. Eat this.
You are refusing onion puff pastries?
I am not letting you off the hook.
Meet me at IIT.
Repay me there.
We won't get this there.
So, you'll have to pay a heavy interest.
-You'll have to pay with croissants. -Really?
When I solve your doubts in IIT...
you will have to pay me with double the number of croissants.
Get it?
You will solve my doubts?
-We shall see. -We shall see.
-You wanna bet on it? -It's a bet.
-We shall stay in touch. -No, no.
You just study.
Don't think about it.
Anyway, there's a difference between meeting sometimes...
and living together.
Friendship isn't something that has to be revised.
Focus on your studies.
Bye.
See you, bro.
Bye.
Please say "bye" to Vartika.
Double croissants.
Vaibhav!
What happened? Is everything okay?
It's just that, I was running. So...
I thought you were leaving tomorrow.
Yes. The new landlady told me to move in today, so...
Sorry, dude.
I should have called you.
I didn't think you would leave.
We clicked really well.
With our studies.
Yes.
I mean...
Actually, I did not think I would go...
but I have to go.
Yes.
This is for you.
You can use it.
Thank you.
Are you cold?
No. Why? What happened?
You are shivering.
That's the reason I asked.
Yes.
I don't know. Maybe.
I guess it is happening because I am a little nervous.
Wait a minute. Hold this.
-What's wrong? -Hold it.
Have this.
Thanks.
What will you do with the rest of the yogurt?
Don't worry. I'll apply it on my hair.
Gross! Yuck!
Best of luck... for IIT.
For IIT.
See you.
You will.
It's me, Vaibhav.
Yes.
This is my number for Kota. Save it.
No, not in Maheshwari. Prodigy.
I am Meena. Prodigy. A5.
Why didn't you come to Kota earlier?
We would have become friends sooner.
Hi, Vaibhav. You're from Itarsi. You have come to Prodigy.
You are like a son to auntie, right?
Why would a fragile and helpless boy like you...
leave his home, school and everything else mid-semester to come to Kota?
You are lagging behind because you are late...
but you aren't alone.
We will fight right up to the last minute and crack IIT.
Okay?
Do you have a matchbox?
No. I don't need it for a cigarette.
I want to light a mosquito repellant.
There are many mosquitoes here.
Yes, I might have one. Let me check.
May I come in?
I am Sushrut, Maheshwari Classes, A7.
I stay in the room upstairs. I moved in yesterday.
You?
Vaibhav, Maheshwari, A3.
Well...
is this your first year or have you been here before?
I was in Prodigy in the 11th grade.
Talwandi.
You must be quite a bookworm.
Well... five to six hours a day.
I have just arrived.
The atmosphere here has really shaken me up.
I wish I had come here for the 11th grade.
I think 12th grade is a little late.
I have my boards this year as well.
I don't know how I'll manage that.
Don't worry.
21 days.
You just have to slog for 21 days.
After that, you will blend in.
You want some puff pastries?