Student Of The Year

2012 • 145 minutes

About this movie

The road from youth to adulthood is paved with a myriad of emotions and Student Of The Year celebrates this colorful coming of age. It is the story of Abhimanyu Singh (Sidharth Malhotra) and Rohan Nanda (Varun Dhawan) who traverse the path of competition, envy, triumph, failure, manipulation and heartbreak in their mini-universe of St. Teresa's High School, Dehradun. Abhimanyu Singh a.k.a Abhi comes from a middle-class family and wants to achieve great heights of success and prosperity. The first step to which will be the Student of the Year trophy while Rohan Nanda a.k.a Ro, is the son of a business tycoon who grapples with a complex relationship with his father and knows that winning the Student Of the Year trophy will bag him the approval that he subconsciously craves for. When the two protagonists with distinct backgrounds and clear goals clash with each other in the locker room, football field and the canteen, there is no question in anyone's mind that the preset equations of the St. Teresa's campus were about to change. When Abhi and Rohan's rivalry takes an unexpected turn to friendship, neither pre-empts the complications that would brew. Things are further knotted up when Shanaya Singhania (Alia Bhatt), the most popular girl on the campus, enters the equation. While Shanaya and Rohan are childhood sweethearts, Abhi's attraction for his best friend's girlfriend and Shanaya's quiet reciprocation causes a rift in their friendship that would have a long lasting impact. Looming large over the various friendships in the campus is the Student Of The year trophy and Dean Yogendra Vasisht's (Rishi Kapoor) emphasis on success and victory. Towards the end of the term, the foes-turned-friends-turned foes, Abhi and Rohan, are ready for a face-off and battle lines are drawn through the length and breadth of the campus, with only one goal in everyone's eyes - Student Of The Year Trophy. As new ambitions are born and old loyalties fall by the wayside, each segment of the Student of the Year competition manages to tear apart both the participants and the spectators to redefine the choices of the three protagonists. What will Abhimanyu choose? Victory or friendship? What will Rohan choose? Victory or dreams? What will Shanaya choose? Victory or emotions?

Ratings and reviews

Terrible writing, terrible direction, no character development other than that which was forced, and very weird pacing. The only thing that got us through the movie was how attractive the main cast is. Bollywood movies are often corny and predictable in an endearing way, but Student of the Year did not even accomplish that. Would not recommend.

This movie was awesome, the actors were great and the songs were on point overall this movie was fantastic,have the the DVD and it was the best decision 😀 siddarth malhotra and alia bhatt were the perfect couple 😘

This movie is a 5/5! This reminds me of a modern version of Ishq Vishq! I enjoyed the chemistry between the lead actors! This movie is great to watch with family!