Sahuntaladevi is a movie worth watching for its narrative skill and the content of message.

By sheer strange quirk of fate I watched the movie twice in less than thirty six hours.The conflicts of interest between professional and personal life of the great mathematician whom the numbers loved is neatly captured.The genius sorry the mathematical wizard right from her childhood is autonomous and rightly considers herself as the father of the family and extremely angry and agitated with her mother for her stupidity in not raising her voice against her husband who is a failed man in life and a dependent on the young daughter for conducting the show and earning income.

The young girl is unable to digest the sudden demise of her sister for want of treatment in the face of father's indifference given his financial plight and takes vow that she will become a big woman and rule the world.

By a happy accident she travels the wide world and proves her ingenious skills with numbers and stumble upon a guy in Calcutta, an IAS officer a very decent down to earth good human, more understanding and less demanding and accommodative gentleman.

The story goes on like this with a series of flash back which does not confuse the audience.while the wizard conquers the world and makes a great fortune their child is taken care of by the father.

When Sahuntaladev hears the baby uttering the word Daddy and not Amma ,she takes the flight and takes charge of her daughter.

The mother who lost her childhood is repeating the mistake of rendering the same fate to her daughter when the latter becomes an appendage or luggage wherever she travels.

The child develops more heightened hatred towards mother with all wealth and affluence and she does not want to live under the shadow of her mother' s popularity.

Fortunately  the daughter gets into a boarding school and when the time comes for marriage alliance with Mother's approval the boy is insisted to join the family in London.

Having been distanced from dad for long the girl does not want to lose her love and by sheer  fate becomes mother though she did not want to be one like her mother.

Th mother and daughter understand each other towards the end  and both realise that with all bottled up love they have seen their mother only as mother and not as woman and they are what they are because of their mother

Vidya Balan is superb in bringing about the wit and and wisdom of the great mathematician .

Craving for perfect equality between husband and wife is easily said than done.The climax scene is  so touching that the mother plays with mathematical genius which once robbed of the happiness of both the husband and daughter

The lady says there's nothing to compare the joy she has found in the twinkling eye of her daughter and that's more than million pounds...

I have just told the skeleton of the story in a rudimentary way without being more critical.

I could smell and get the sound of my own family members raising an accusing finger that how a good teacher has failed as a good husband.

Yes as numbers loved her I loved economics.it is just a fact.i may not have been a quantitative economist but at a fundamental level and also some sophistication of theory I did justice to my first love which still mesmerizing me like my Tamil language which I had ignored for long

There's no free lunch.There is always trade off.There is a  clash of interest between professional and personal life

I did not strike any delicate balance as was the case with that great mathematician. No regrets.i could not have been otherwise