Paathshaala

The thing with wanting to weave socially relevant subjects into cinema is to remember that there must be strong logically coherent arguments written into the screenplay. The thing with wanting such cinema to do well commercially is to remember that the theme is rarely the hero - it almost always sits on the shoulders of someone already larger than life. Think Swades, Taare Zameen Par, 3 Idiots or the Munnabhai series.

Paathshaala touches upon, nay, smears its face with the issue of the over-commercialization of private schools. It would have been quite a sensible presentation had th....