After securing a big hit from movie 'Kaabil,' Hrithik Roshan is all set for his upcoming film 'Super 30', where he will be playing the math teacher as Anand Kumar.In the film, the 'Mohenjo Daro' star will be seen as a teacher who teaches students for IIT JEE, the entrance examinations for the Indian Institute of Technology (IITs).The biopic, casting director Mukesh Chabbra is in search of actors who can play as a Hrithik Roshan students in the movie.Filmmaker Vikas Bahl and the casting Director Mukesh Chhabra have signed down the list of actual actors from 15,000 to 78 and are currently holding the workshops.
"We want to cast kids in the age group of only 15-17 and have auditioned over 15,000. That was started a few months ago after zeroing in on potential actors from Bihar, Varanasi, Bhopal, Mumbai and Delhi. After a raw of adution and selection, we brought the number down to 400, then, 200, 150 and now, 78 kids with whom we are conducting workshops for the final 30 actors that we rae looking to finalise in 1 month time period," informs Mukesh, whose past discoveries include the nine kids for Nitesh Tiwari and Vikas's 2011 kiddie-comedy, Chillar Party, Harshaali Malhotra for Kabir Khan's Salman Khan-starrer 2015 Eid release, Bajrangi Bhaijaan and Nitesh's Dangal girls - Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra, Zaira Wasim and Suhani Bhatnagar.
"We want kids who look as original as those from the institute. For that, we went to the inside, slums and several NGOs. You can't teach kids how to do acting, all we could do is give them the basic confidence to perform," said by Mukesh.Meanwhile, Vikas was shocked to see such amount of untapped talent in India."The realization encouraged us to do an even more extensive search in order to include those from varied backgrounds and towns. The pool of actors from which we are short-listing is the most appropriate for us, as Anandji's students also come from diverse backgrounds," the director asserted.Before shooting kicks off, the final 30 actors will have an acting workshop with Hrithik Roshan.Reliance Entertainment and Phantom Films' 'Super 30', directed by Vikas Bahl, will go to release on November 23, 2018.