Completed - HINDI - Social issues, Family - 140 minutes
Year of production : 2016 Director(s) : Ashwiny IYER TIWARI Cast : Swara BHASKAR, Ratna Pathak SHAH, Riya SHUKLA
Amongst the small clusters of houses sheltering poor people resides ‘Chanda’ with her 14-year-old daughter Apeksha lovingly called ‘Appu’. Ever smiling Chanda earns her living by cooking for the families living in the posh government colony. Amongst them Chanda shares a close bond with Mrs Dewan, a professor in the medical university. Inspite of her low-income and the circumstances she lives in, Chanda’s only dream in life is to provide Appu the best education so that she can lead a respectable life unlike her. Appu on the contrary is a typical teenager succumbed to her surrounding. She is interested in everything Bollywood except academics. Chanda often talks about her dream for Appu and asks her “what does she want to be in life?” Appu casually tells her “Like a doctor’s son becomes a doctor; an engineer’s son becomes an engineer she too would become a Bai (maid) just like her mother”. Chanda is even more determined that in the backdrop of disadvantages, she will have to discover the abilities in Appu and change her mind-set only to clear grade 10 else she will stop studying after encountering failure and that will become the story of her life. Chanda meets a professor of a coaching class who refuses to take Appu on a rebate that’s when the racket on coaching classes, the education system and carrier choices comes to her focus. She expresses her angst to Mrs Dewan that if she had studied tenth grade she could have taught Appu. Surprisingly Mrs Dewan plants a thought in her head to join school along with Appu so that she could teach her all by her self. Constantly toying with this radical idea, having no choices left and against Appu’s wishes Chanda finally enrolls in her school. Leading two parallel lives, Chanda experiences a lot of emotional upheaval juggling between work, school and house hold chores. She starts doing well in school while her relationship with Appu who loved her mother immensely starts deteriorating. She looses one of her jobs for being unpunctual. To make matters worse, in the second unit test Appu fails. One night in the spur of a moment Chanda takes a tough decision and challenges Appu that who ever gets more marks in the mid-term gets to go to school since she does not have the money to pay for two. Brewing hatred, jealousy and to put an end to Chanda’s mad ‘dream’ Appu accepts this challenge instantly and the competition between a mother and daughter for their own reason begin. In a country, where 38% girls drop out of schools before Std 8th, ‘Nil Battey Sannata’ is a thought-provoking tale which inspires and promotes education for the girl child and a better future for India following the Government recognized philosophy ‘Ladki padao. Desh badao’ (A girl educated is a nation educated)Will a poor, uneducated woman like Chanda actually create her daughter’s life to be unrecognizable than hers?
Country(ies) : INDIA
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