Student of the Year (2012)

Action, Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance, Sport
Alia Bhatt, Boman Irani, Kajol, Varun Dhawan
The road from youth to adulthood is paved with myriad emotions and Student Of a The Year celebrates this colorful coming of age. It is the story of Abhimanyu Singh (Siddharth Malhotra) and Rohan Nanda (Varun Dhawan) who traverse the path of envy, triumph, failure, heartbreaks, competition and manipulation in their mini-universe of St. Teresa's High School, Dehradun. Abhimanyu Singh "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. Yogender Vashishtha (Rishi Kapoor) is the dean of St Teresa High School, now retired for the last 10 years. Yogender has suffered a heart attack in the present, the entire student batch of the high school decides to gather in Dehradun. The movie is in flashback.Rohan is a spoiled brat & has Shonaya (Alia Bhatt) as his girlfriend in college. Abhimanyu is from middle class & wants to prove himself with hard work. Rohan & Abhimanyu are both alpha males & not soon after both are competing in college over pretty much everything. Yogender announces the Student of The Year competition which will allow the winner to study at an ivy league college. The competition is sponsored by Ashok Nanda, Rohan's father, who is also the biggest donor to the college. Rohan starts playing practical pranks on teachers & blames it on Abhimanyu. On one such occasion, Rohan is close to being caught, when Abhi owns up to the prank & takes the punishment. Rohan befriends Abhi & introduces him to Shonaya, who is already impressed with Abhi's all-round abilities.In a crucial inter college match, Abhi sets up the winning goal but allows Rohan to score it. This makes Rohan the hero, but it was clearly Abhi who had won the game for the team. Many believe that Abhi did this to get closer to Rohan. Rohan is not sure about his love for Shonaya. He keeps flirting with other girls in front of Shonaya & keeps hurting her feelings. Abhi consoles Shonaya & encourages her to flirt with other boys as well. Shonaya convinces Abhi to fake flirt with her to make Rohan jealous. In the fake flirting Abhi starts loving Shonaya. But Shonaya gets her result by getting close to Rohan.Yogender declares the Student of the Year competition open. Rohan & Abhi decide to fight for the trophy at all costs. The race is neck & neck with Rohan winning a few competitions & Abhi a few. They remain close throughout with a healthy camaraderie. Abhi's grandmother has a heart attack & Shonaya decides to visit her in the hospital. That's when Shonaya gets closer to Abhi & even starts to reciprocate his feelings for her. They both kiss, & Rohan sees this. That night Rohan has a fight with Abhi & then also with his dad, who kicks him out of the house. Rohan decides to grow up & challenges Abhi to the Student of the Year trophy. Rohan's dad has never supported Rohan's dream to become a guitarist, & he is very impressed with the clarity of thought within Abhi. He openly ridicules Rohan & supports Abhi to win the trophy.At the final competition, a triathlon, with scores tied Rohan & Abhi race, with Rohan beating Abhi by a whisker at the last leg of the race. The question everyone is left with is whether Abhi threw the race & let Rohan win. Rohan refuses to accept the trophy from Yogender at the awards ceremony & one of the students gets drunk & accuses Yogendra of using Student of the Year competition for his own entertainment, which led to the breakup of friendship between 2 friends & now everybody in the college hates each other.In the present, Rohan, Abhi & Shonaya also reach the hospital. Abhi & Shonaya are married. Rohan is a musician. They again come to blows & this time Abhi confesses that he threw the race because Rohan's dad was taking pleasure in Rohan's defeat & Abhi simply could not see any more humiliation for Rohan. Eventually Abhi & Rohan run out of blows & hug each other.
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