A middle-class couple in India: Clothing store owner Raj (Irrfan Khan) and his wife Mita (Saba Qamar) go to great lengths to get their daughter Pia (Thitta Segar Dishita Sehgal) a better education. And when they finally tried hard to send their daughter to a prestigious school, things changed unexpectedly...
Class differentiation, inequality between rich and poor, education "inner volume", the use of power for personal gain, one after another, the original very heavy topics, are packaged by a comedic plot, so that the whole story is both inspiring, light and humorous. It's a film that's well worth watching.
In Indian movies, my favorite is the young beautiful girl, that kind of beauty is shocking, the film opened to give such a shot, but unfortunately the picture is too few, a few minutes flashed out 15 years later, the beautiful girl transformed into an anxious tiger mother.
1 You think you are winning at the starting line, but you have already lost;
In the play, the mother checked the "Guide", visited famous schools, moved out of the comfort zone, and lived in the school district. When I inquired, there was still a big gap between the requirements and the requirements. After being introduced to a consultant, the consultant gave a lot of training arrangements before the interview, and the mother worriedly said that the time was full, and the child had no time to eat and rest. The consultant said that other children began to learn during prenatal education...
Yes, if you want to send your child to a prestigious school, you must stand in front of the "starting line" from the mother-to-be. The name is left with XX Mom. Books you have read, dreams you have had, you can only put them down for the time being.
The so-called leftover women are nothing more than trying to prolong the time of being a girl.
2 Less is more, more is less, the more things you have, the more exposed your "poverty";
In order to squeeze in the ranks of the rich during the interview, the couple added brand names from the beginning to the home. Standing in front of the consultant, the consultant said, "Are you showing off your wealth?" ”
The rich never dress like this, they don't have to prove themselves with something outside of their bodies. A person's advanced starts with simplicity. Thinking like this, it really doesn't need too many external things.
Even if everything was done according to the advice of the consultants, the daughter Pia was not allowed to enter the elite school. The last straw was to take the poor route. In order to show "fairness", 25% of the places in each school are reserved for the children of poor families.
3 Parents who have lost the bottom line, how to educate their children.
The couple turned into poor people in rags, living in stinking water, rats and mosquitoes
slum. Even so, a pair of hands with fine skin and tender flesh still revealed their identity.
Fortunately, four generations of poor neighbors spoke for them and gave them a chance to retry. So the couple really began to learn the "poverty" is not easy to learn.
Sincerity and kindness, which are no longer common, are reproduced in the neighbor's house. They and their neighbors built a deep friendship based on mutual assistance.
Pia entered the prestigious school as she wished, but the neighbor's child was not selected. The uneasiness and guilt led the couple to the public school where the neighbor's children attended, and funded the improvement of the school's hardware and software facilities. They thought it would give them a little bit of peace of mind.
4 Written at the end
When the identity of the rich is exposed to the neighbors, in the face of the infinite tolerance of the poor neighbors. The couple finally repented and let their daughter transfer to a public school to attend school with the neighbor's children.