On amazon, Rama and me saw Hindi Medium, laughed, enjoyed. Rating B plus. A Hindi film with unpleasant large parts like the rotis and sabjis me makes for Rama, reluctant to cook. Will tell friends to watch the film directed by Saket Chaudhry with Irrfan Khan in the lead along with Deepak Dobriyal. Irrfan, Nawaz, Bajpai... a fine generation dotting the Indian film industry. Irrfan's wife, Meeta Batra is obsessed with English education for her daughter in a top class Delhi school. Wants it somehow.The film spoofs the Right to Education law reserving seats for poor in high class, English speaking schools. Meeta becomes Honey from Mitho to align with high society and Irrfan nods famously. Helpless. Deprives the son of slum dweller, Deepak Dobriyal of the RTE quota. The film winds down mushy but yet mirrors an Indian craze for English education and assured, high paid jobs. And the film is not fantasy. As a kid in Calcutta, father wanted me soaked in English. He loved the language and all my cousins were at English medium, Hindi High School. Me also went with the monthly fees at Rs.52 and bus fees separate in the 50s. Father could not afford it; it pained more when me flunked and flunked with the first language Hindi, second language English, third language Sanskrit plus the rest of the nuisance. Yes, me was a disappointment as me scored pass marks. Passed out weak in all languages. Today, except for a bit of English, is unversed in Indian languages. Credit be to father that English helped me earn a living as a journalist. And it is happening to my grand-daughters. Shreya is uncomfortable with English, Chiyu is indifferent. They speak Marathi like in Calcutta we spoke Brahminised Tamil as mother did not know English. Hindi Medium is an ode to Hindi and could be extended to all Indian languages, equally graceful. Englishmen imposed English, north India stuffs Hindi, where will other languages be. Today, there is an armed stress on Hindi when the south and the east and the north east are unfamiliar with Hindi. But they are more comfortable with Hindi than the north with their languages; it is English and others; follows, Hindi and others. Not many children in UP and Bihar are taught Tamil or Kannada or Bengali... but Hindi is a must in the south under the 3-language formula. Shreya and Chiyu call Rama Aji and me Ajoba. Is it not as sweet as Dada and Dadi in Gorakhpur homes?
Monday, June 26, 2017
Hindi Medium
On amazon, Rama and me saw Hindi Medium, laughed, enjoyed. Rating B plus. A Hindi film with unpleasant large parts like the rotis and sabjis me makes for Rama, reluctant to cook. Will tell friends to watch the film directed by Saket Chaudhry with Irrfan Khan in the lead along with Deepak Dobriyal. Irrfan, Nawaz, Bajpai... a fine generation dotting the Indian film industry. Irrfan's wife, Meeta Batra is obsessed with English education for her daughter in a top class Delhi school. Wants it somehow.The film spoofs the Right to Education law reserving seats for poor in high class, English speaking schools. Meeta becomes Honey from Mitho to align with high society and Irrfan nods famously. Helpless. Deprives the son of slum dweller, Deepak Dobriyal of the RTE quota. The film winds down mushy but yet mirrors an Indian craze for English education and assured, high paid jobs. And the film is not fantasy. As a kid in Calcutta, father wanted me soaked in English. He loved the language and all my cousins were at English medium, Hindi High School. Me also went with the monthly fees at Rs.52 and bus fees separate in the 50s. Father could not afford it; it pained more when me flunked and flunked with the first language Hindi, second language English, third language Sanskrit plus the rest of the nuisance. Yes, me was a disappointment as me scored pass marks. Passed out weak in all languages. Today, except for a bit of English, is unversed in Indian languages. Credit be to father that English helped me earn a living as a journalist. And it is happening to my grand-daughters. Shreya is uncomfortable with English, Chiyu is indifferent. They speak Marathi like in Calcutta we spoke Brahminised Tamil as mother did not know English. Hindi Medium is an ode to Hindi and could be extended to all Indian languages, equally graceful. Englishmen imposed English, north India stuffs Hindi, where will other languages be. Today, there is an armed stress on Hindi when the south and the east and the north east are unfamiliar with Hindi. But they are more comfortable with Hindi than the north with their languages; it is English and others; follows, Hindi and others. Not many children in UP and Bihar are taught Tamil or Kannada or Bengali... but Hindi is a must in the south under the 3-language formula. Shreya and Chiyu call Rama Aji and me Ajoba. Is it not as sweet as Dada and Dadi in Gorakhpur homes?
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