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#3 It is made clear in the opening moments of ‘Good Will Hunting’, a film I harbour deep love for that our protagonist, Will is an unrealised genius. A mathematical wizard, Will is a victim of his circumstance and his ironical fate subjects him to the life of deprivation. The saddest part about that is that he doesn’t even know it, his deprivation is guised as a life of supreme fulfillment in the form of his immature albeit fiercely loyal friends. Of unrealised geniuses is a story of tame and torture. And of undiscovered, under nurtured ones is a story of tragedy. That is the Indian education system; the saga of it’s students who are either unrealised geniuses or undiscovered ones. Like Will, most students in India live a life of freedom, a perceived freedom which in actuality is slavery. A gargantuan lie that propels victory in the units of grades and boasts it in a noble flamboyance when in reality, this nobility is the very substance that their binding chains are made o...

WHAT 3 IDIOTS AND BOLLYWOOD GETS WRONG ABOUT INDIAN STUDENTS India is known worldwide for the cinema we create. It produces the largest number of films all over, the loud extravagance of our typical song and dance regimen has made us popular for the right and wrong reasons worldwide. Like any cinema anywhere, even Indian cinema goes through its phases, we have seen our cinema snowball from the freedom cry unanimism cinema of the pre independence period, then it reflected a sense of nation building precisely in most Manoj Kumar films, then came the hero-heroin-action-villain phase which plagues us with its distorted sense of reality. But as the fuel of distortion quickly runs out, inevitably our cinema is becoming more and more real by every film release. It is a harmonious mixture of angry rebellion and unstoppable cycle of evolution. But here’s a thread that hasn’t changed ever since the pulp cinema of the 80s; the students in Hindi films. Rishi Kapoor in Naseeb, Jo Jeeta ...