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Bollywood’s tryst with teachers
Teachers are finally getting a realistic portrayal in Bollywood – and our heroes don’t mind playing one either The Times of India, Sep 5, 2011
If it was school, it had to be cool. For ages, Bollywood’s portrayal of the teacher hadn’t moved beyond the hot teacher that left students smitten (Simi Garewal in “Mera Naam Joker”, Sushmita Sen in her sexy sarees in “Main Hoon Na”), or a teacher who did everything but teach, (aka Shah Rukh Khan in “Mohabbatein”, who was more interested in finding girlfriends for his students) – in short, the profession has mostly had a cheesy portrayal on the silver screen.
It took an offbeat flick like “Rockford” or the critically acclaimed “Black” to provide the deviation from the norm, or if you want to look really far back in time for a mainstream example, there was, well, the Naseeruddin Shah starrer “Sir” in 1993.
But slowly, somewhere, the teaching bug bit Bollywood’s A-listers, and films started providing a non filmi, non naach-gaana-mohabbatbutt-of-jokes portrayal of the classroom and the teacher. Where “Taare Zameen Par” had Aamir take on a dyslexic child and “Stanley Ka Dabba” (which, incidentally, was directed by Amole Gupte, the guy who walked out of “TZP” and made a film on the classroom again) left audiences in tears, “3 Idiots”, a laughter-cum-tears riot, made students throughout the country think that this was the story of their college days (with Boman Irani playing the classic college professor),
Amitabh Bachchan took a hard hitting look at the morals and ethics of the teaching profession in “Aarakshan” – never mind that the film became ‘a controversy’ even before it released. But it looks like this subject’s finally working for Bollywood. Happy Teachers’ Day!
With inputs from Radhika Bhirani/IANS
BOLLYWOOD’S TRYST WITH TEACHERS THROUGH THE DECADES
MERA NAAM JOKER, 1970 SIR, 1993 ROCKFORD, 1999 MOHABBATEIN, 2000 MAIN HOON NA, 2004 BLACK, 2005 IQBAL, 2006 TAARE ZAMEEN PAR, 2007 3 IDIOTS, 2009 STANLEY KA DABBA, 2011 AARAKSHAN, 2011
Daan Singh
Music director Daan Singh passes away
Avijit Ghosh | TNN
The Times of India, June 20, 2011
New Delhi: Hindi film music director Daan Singh, whose melancholic melody, Woh tere pyaar ka gham, provided soul and succour to a generation of broken-hearted lovers, died following a liver ailment at his Jaipur home on Saturday night. He was 78.
Despite crafting such gems, Singh was never swamped with offers. As Nitin Mukesh puts it, “He was an extremely talented musician who perhaps never got his due.”
