Why is nobody crying because they failed in maths? Why is this momentous occasion not documented in the cinematic verse? We need answers.ĥ. Nobody’s school life was complete without someone setting off firecrackers in some part of the school as a prank. Where is the part about a firecracker going off in the school washroom? The people we see on-screen are ripped and built to be fitness models on Instagram. Us scrawny kids spent our off-days in graphic tees with sparkly text and ill-fitting jeans. Most of us had school lives so distant from that of the one-percenters represented in films, that we cannot even imagine stepping out in the glitzy, off-the-runway outfits that the side characters wear. We didn’t even wear the clothes they wear to school in parties We had a field to run in, and a hall with a floor to sit on.ģ.
Their gymnasiums are like spaceships, and they have auditoriums the size of movie theatres. Our brick-and-mortar schools with whitewashed walls and scratched wooden desks feature nowhere in these fancy, larger-than-a-football-field schools made of glass. The infrastructure in these schools is like that of a palace-cum-spaceship Who is padhai ? What are textbooks? We don’t know her.Ģ. As far as Bollywood’s school kids go, this is a non-issue. This is wild in a country like India, where most of us would go home and cry because the teachers didn’t think our 80 percentile was JEE material. Nobody is studying, and no one’s parents seem to careĪpart from carrying some books in the hallways for aesthetic reasons, these characters have zero connection to their studies. 90 percent of what is shown in Bollywood about school and college life is a ludicrous farce.
If aliens came to earth and watched Hindi movies to get an idea about the education system of India, all they would get are lies.