Hichki is an emotional movie with the primary social message of inclusion. In these times when division seems to be the order of the day, such a thought is indeed very welcome. It also sees the return of Rani Mukherjee to the big screen and it is such a pleasure to see her again.
The movie is based on the movie Front of the Class based on the book by Brad Cohen, Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had. Rani plays Naina Mathur, a feisty young woman who has Tourette’s syndrome. Tourette syndrome is a common neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by multiple motor tics and at least one vocal tic.In Naina’s case, it manifests as loud barking or hiccupping noises. Naina accepts her condition as part of her life and is set upon becoming a teacher. Predictably she is rejected by all schools till one school agrees to take her on mid-term to teach a classroom of kids who have got into the elite school through the Right to Education Act. These kids are as much a misfit in the posh school as Naina was in her childhood and she makes it her mission to get them accepted into the mainstream of school life. Their acceptance by their peers and the teachers is important because it also means that she has finally been included in the world of normal people instead of being looked upon with derision and curiosity due to her condition. Will Naina succeed in winning over a bunch of defiant underprivileged kids and make them into winners? How you can turn the stream of judgemental thinking into one of acceptance is what the story explores.very nic movie