Director: Tushar Hiranandani
Every institution told Srikanth Bolla he couldn't. Srikanth follows the entrepreneur who ignored all of them, turning blindness from birth into the starting point of an unlikely rise from rural India to MIT and beyond.
What is Srikanth about?
Born without sight in a small Indian village, Srikanth grows up being told what he cannot do long before anyone asks what he can. Refusing to accept the limits placed on him, he pushes through an education system built without him in mind and eventually becomes the first visually impaired student admitted to MIT, a milestone that reshapes how he sees his own future. Rather than settling into a comfortable career abroad, he returns home with a bigger goal: building Bollant Industries, a company designed to employ people the wider job market overlooks. Success brings its own weight, though, and Srikanth finds himself balancing personal ambition against a growing responsibility to the community he set out to serve, discovering that building something lasting costs more than he expected.
Cast & crew
Rajkummar Rao takes on the title role, carrying much of the film's emotional weight across its timeline from childhood struggle to boardroom pressure. Alaya F and Sharad Kelkar provide key support as figures who shape Srikanth's path, while Jyothika, Jameel Khan, and Anusha Nuthula round out an ensemble that grounds the story's institutional and family backdrop.
Context & significance
Directed by Tushar Hiranandani and released in 2024, Srikanth is a biographical drama drawn from a real entrepreneur's life, tracing the gap between rural Indian schooling and elite global institutions. The film leans on that true story for its dramatic stakes rather than genre convention, framing disability, ambition, and business as intertwined threads instead of separate subplots.
Where & how to watch
Srikanth streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles available alongside the original Hindi track. This page can be read without any account, but starting playback requires logging into K-Time for free first. The platform's Farsi-language interface is built specifically for Persian-speaking viewers following stories like this one from outside India.