Aniruddh "Anni" Pathak is a divorced middle-aged man living with his teenage son Raghav, an aspiring engineer, who is awaiting his JEE results in hopes of enrolling in the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). On the eve of the results, Aniruddh gifts Raghav a bottle of champagne, promising him that they will celebrate his success together, unaware that Raghav is under intense pressure. The bottle of champagne only fuels Raghav's worries that he might not make it. The next day, while checking the results at his friend's apartment, Raghav finds out that he has indeed failed his exams and, afraid of being called a "loser", he jumps off the balcony. Aniruddh rushes to the hospital where he tries to comfort his ex-wife Maya, Raghav's mother. The doctor informs Maya and Aniruddh that Raghav's condition is deteriorating because Raghav doesn't have the will to live.

After the failed launch of GSLV-F06 on 25 December 2010, due to a small mistake by Project Director Tara Shinde, Rakesh Dhawan, a fellow scientist working with her, takes the blame for her. As a result, he is relocated to work on Mangalyaan as punishment. The new GSLV missions are given to Rupert Desai, a NASA scientist of Indian origin. The MoM (Mars Orbiter Mission) is thought of as an impossible mission by his coworkers due its aim of reaching Mars with its tight budget.

Super 30 is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language biographical drama film directed by Vikas Bahl and co-produced by Sajid Nadiadwala on a budget of ₹60 crore (US$8.4 million), narrating the life of mathematician Anand Kumar and his educational program of the same name.[5] Co-distributed by Reliance Entertainment, the film stars Hrithik Roshan as Anand, with Mrunal Thakur, Virendra Saxena, Pankaj Tripathi, Aditya Srivastava, Amit Sadh and Aayush Kumar Shukla in supporting roles