It's the story of a middle school student caught between his two loves: math and hip-hop.
During research for an assignment, 12-year-old math genius Prem Patel discovers that his late father was a famous rapper."Prem is a math wizard who is pretty shy at first," explains actor Manny Magnus, who plays ''Prem."It's dad who helps boost that confidence, as the voice that guides him.
"Through music and dance and expression, we learn what it really means to be the world's best," says Utkarsh Ambudkar, who plays Prem's father, Suresh. A real-life rapper and singer, Ambudkar also co-wrote and produced the film. He says he was amazed by Manny's performance. "You see him shine on every song," Ambudkar says. "It's really cool to see something that I wrote come out of his heart and his voice, and have it be done so well.""When I was Manny's age, there was nobody that looked like me in a Disney movie or on TV in general," Ambudkar says. "For us to be to tell the story of a nuclear South Asian family in this way, that's my goal and my dream.
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