Where Education Is Entertainment
May 29, 2021
3 minutes
—Suhani Singh
Filmmakers in the US have Ivy Leagues and high schools for inspiration. In Hindi entertainment, however, most academic plotlines begin and end with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). Many filmmakers have found their imagination triggered by this mecca for engineering studies. Rajkumar Hirani and Abhijat Joshi, for instance, flipped through Chetan Bhagat’s bestseller for their denunciation of rote learning in (2009), the first Hindi film to cross the Rs
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