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Hindi Medium Movie Review: Watch Irrfan Khan’s Film For Remarkable Quality Of Acting
Hindi Medium Movie Review: Ignore its hiccups and watch Irrfan Khan’s film for the relevance of the questions it poses and the remarkable quality of the acting
Saibal Chatterjee | Updated: May 19, 2017 16: 19 IST
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Hindi Medium Movie Review: Irrfan Khan, Saba Qamar in a film still
Cast: Irrfan Khan, Saba Qamar, Deepak Dobriyal, Amrita Singh, Swati Das
Director: Saket Chaudhary
Rating: 2.5 stars
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Full marks - well, almost - for Saket Chaudhary’s Hindi Medium for intent, effort and thematic novelty. It’s asquint take on the scramble for pre-primary admissions that elite, metropolitan English-medium schools witness every year is likely to strike an instant chord with parents who’ve faced, or are due to face, the unseemly rigmarole. Taken in its entirety, however, the film scores much less.
This Irrfan Khan starrer is a middling social satire, an awkward blend of situational comedy and an earnest expose on the downsides of ersatz pecking-order mobility. It employs broad strokes that hinge on contrived, bereft-of-nuance situations.
The first half is fine, even somewhat droll, riding as it does on the restrained comic talent of Irrfan ( as Raj Batra, a well-off Old Delhi clothier) and Saba Qamar ( as his wife Meeta, an uptight mother prone to bouts of overreaction) . The film doesn’t take itself all that seriously as long as the ambitious Delhi couple, looking for an English medium public school for their out-of-sorts daughter, scour the city for the magic key that could liberate them from their Chandni Chowk trappings.
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