Set in the late 1990s, when India was coming to terms with new ambitions, consumerism and upward mobility, All India Rank (AIR) is a semi-autobiographical story about a 17-year-old boy toiling in a prep school in the coaching hell of Kota, hoping to get into an IIT ("the MIT of India").
The debutante director, Varun Grover, is an IIT-BHU alumnus. He has also already established himself as a poet, a national award-winning lyricist, a scriptwriter, a stand-up comedian, a political satirist and an occasional actor. This is the man who wrote the lyrics of the stunning song "Moh Moh ....