The Maa Ka Sum trailer arrives with a unique concept based on a good mixture of emotion and quirkiness, featuring Mona Singh and Mihir Ahuja, who present us with an interesting dilemma: Is love really something you can solve mathematically?
The first introduction we have to Agastya is during the opening minutes of the trailer, where we are introduced to a 19-year-old math prodigy who sees life, and all its happenings, in terms of numbers, formulas, and equations. Everything he sees can be solved, logically, precisely, and in a measurable form; however, as noted in Maa Ka Sum, that doesn’t hold true in all cases when it comes to living life.
Agastya’s latest “project” is to assist his single mother, Vinita (played by Mona Singh), find a suitable companion, making it possibly Agastya’s most ambitious project yet. This “project” kicks off in a careful way but ends up featuring a mixture of uncomfortable, humorous, and unexpected moments, and shows how well Agastya’s rigid, logical ways exist with the unpredictability of emotions within a person; therefore, creating the conflict of the story.
The initial impression is of a close connection between a mother and son. Their relationship has an “inherited” quality – it has equal parts love, anger, and understanding for each other and adds to the quiet strength of an obviously relatable character like Mona Singh. Mihir Ahuja, on the other hand, nails the awkward brilliance of a young man trying to decode feelings using data.
The pacing of the trailer is appropriately upbeat and features many visual aspects, such as text, numbers, equations, graphics, and other visual representations of the world that exist in Agastya’s head, but ultimately expresses a universal theme that one can’t predict, plan, optimize, or know how love will develop.
As the narrative unfolds, the trailer hints at a shift: from “Project Mom” as an experimental procedure for Agastya to an opportunity to discover his own identity. Logic begins to clash with lived experiences, and somewhere along the way, equations give way to emotions.
The mix of funny bits and serious situations, along with the unique idea behind the show Maa Ka Sum, makes for a feel-good show that doesn’t seem like it’s going out of its way to try to relate. This show will give you a story about a son understanding what love is, as well as how much his mother has come to appreciate it again.
And if the trailer is anything to go by, this is one equation where the answer isn’t meant to be solved, it’s meant to be felt.
Directed by Nicholas Kharkongor, Maa Ka Sum also stars Angira Dhar, Ranveer Brar, Rohan Joshi, Celesti Bairagey, Hetal Gada, Ishankk Salluja, among others.
