Get Educated: Paathshaala (2010)

A new English school-teacher also teaches music but ends up leading both teachers and students to revolt against the school management.

Director:

Milind Ukey

Writers:

Ahmed Khan (story), Hanif Shaikh (lyrics)

Stars:

Nana Patekar, Shahid Kapoor, Ayesha Takia

Cast

Credited cast:
Nana Patekar	...	Principal Aditya Sahay
Shahid Kapoor	...	Rahul Prakash Udyavar
Ayesha Takia	...	Anjali Mathur (as Ayesha Takia Azmi)
Sushant Singh	...	Vijendra Chauhan
Saurabh Shukla	...	Lallan Sharma
Anjan Srivastav	...	Waghmare (as Anjan Shrivastav)
Kurush Deboo	...	Cyrus Hansotia
Sanatan Mody	...	Farooque
Shraddha Arya	...	Natasha Singh (as Shradha Arya)
Kainaz Motivala	...	Shailey
Dwij Yadav	...	Vijay Damodar (as Dwij Narendra Yadav)
Swini Khara	...	Swini
Ali Haji	...	Rohan
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Vickeey Ahhuja	...	Rajveer (as Bicky Ahuja)
Salman Ahmed	...	Media Planner

Storyline

Rahul Prakash Udyavar joins Saraswati Vidya Mandir, which is located in Mumbai's Eastern suburbs, as an English Teacher. Shortly thereafter he also agrees to teach music at the request of Nutritionist, Anjali Mathur. With the school facing shortage of funds, pressure is being brought by Manager Lallan Sharma to try to get students' parents to pay more for a variety of activities. When the Principal, Aditya Sahay, supports Lallan, the students and staff are forced to raise funds. Despite of their best efforts, however, a stage will be set for a much-publicized confrontation that may well result in the closure of this institution.

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

16 April 2010 (India)

Also Known As:

Paathshaala

Company Credits

Production Co:

Eros International, Paperdoll Entertainment

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Goofs

Ayesha Takia Azmi plays the credited character of Anjali Mathur, however, on an envelope she receives from New York her name is shown as "Anjali Kapoor".

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Connections

References Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003)

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Soundtracks

"Eh Khuda Mujko Bata"
Performed by Salim Merchant
Lyrics & Music by Hanif Shaikh
Music on T-Series

User Reviews

Get out while you can...

I sure did.

Principal stops kid on stairs and asks politely why he is late. Kid pees his pants and sobs. Principal leaves.

New English teacher dresses like a 16 year old, tries really hard to smile as boyishly as possible, gives a lame-ass speech about not wanting to teach music to kids cause he's here to teach English.

Cheery school Nutritionist likes to nonchalantly dress in super bright clothes, tries to delicately arm-twist English teacher into teaching the kids music.

English teacher is found lip-syncing really badly to an uninspiring song holding a guitar and pretending to play it but failing miserably as he "charms" a bunch of kids into singing along with him.

School Nutritionist leaps off exultantly with the wind blowing her perfectly curled hair away from her face...

... I couldn't bear it, so I Shift+Deleted the file.

Sorry, I have no clue what the movie was about but if the start was so painfully boring I couldn't force myself to suffer through another of Shahid's attempt at being the super-chilled-cool-happening-hip-Dude who quite frankly... isn't.