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STORY The Indian professor Venkat Subramanyam (Amitabh Bachchan) has not made much of a name for himself, but he is a brilliant mathematician. He breaks new ground in probability theory, which arouses the interest of the British mathematician Perci Trachtenberg (Ben Kingsley). So, he persuades Venkat to put his theories to good use in practice: at…

Arriving more than ten years behind the curve in both its ability to inspire and establish a solid connection, “The Secret: Dare to Dream,” a fictionalized take on Rhonda Byrne’s well-known self-help book “The Secret,” treads familiar ground without adding any valuable insights. The narrative, centering on a financially and emotionally strained family discovering hope…