Hichki Review
Hichki is a tale worth telling. While the screenplay forms a set template, one of the family members not giving a congenital problem its adequate care and getting embarrassed by it, the person fight against all odds and societal pressure and then taking on a difficult project and winning.
The movie works because of sincerity. With Rani Mukherji around there is enough of it. And she carries the movie as Naina Mathur who has Tourette's syndrome. Naina gets rejected by numerous schools for role of teacher and then finds an infamous section 9F in a school to teach. The students there are not clearing 9th standard and really dont care about passing since they are already professionals earning a livelihood for their family.
Good parts are the sensitive portrayal of the children with special needs and how the society's apathy is apparent, how do you deal with a different strata of society - kids from poor backgrounds who are now also part of an upmarket school and how they are denied opportunities even if they are good and how earning a living is top of mind by the time they are in seventh standard and of course you feel for the character of Naina Mathur who has Tourette's syndrome. It also shows by telling some kids to succeed at all costs how that affects them eventually - larger question of who is a good teacher. So the movie is both the strife of an individual and a profession.
Not so great parts are that you cant invest in the kids of the school. That could have been done better. I had listened to a speech by one of our employees who was removed from school by his parents to work in a quarry but he completed it . He faced a lot of opposition. That angle could have made the movie more realistic. Naina's emotional journey could have been better told. Given a Yashraj production, not having a love interest was a bit strange.
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