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Chalk n Duster Dvd

Jyoti, a teacher who is passionate about teaching, stands up for a fellow teacher, Vidya, and fights against her unjustified dismissal by the school’s new principal, Kamini Gupta.

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Chalk n Duster is a 2016 Indian drama film about commercialization of the Indian private education system, starring Juhi Chawla, Shabana Azmi, Zarina Wahab, Girish Karnad and Divya Dutta.The film talks about teachers’ and students’ communication, and highlights the problem of teachers and students in an educational system which is changing day by day.

The film was directed by Jayant Gilatar, written by Ranjeev Verma and Neetu Verma and produced by Amin Surani.

Upon release, the film received mixed to positive reviews from critics. The Hindustan Times said, “It’s a well told ethics versus greed story”.

The film was made tax free in Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

Plot

Vidya is one of the senior staff members at this fair to middling educational institution, which has thus far functioned smoothly under the able hands of Principal Indu Shastry (Zarina Wahab). Everything changes with the appointment of the new principal. The teachers face unpleasant surprises when the popular and considerate Indu is replaced by the ambitious and cut-throat Kamini, who aspires to upscale this middle-class school. Teachers’ chairs are removed from the classrooms, the tea is no longer free and subjects are juggled so that, for example, the overweight Hindi teacher is now assigned physical training spoiling the whole dynamics of the school.

All of this is too much for the good-hearted Vidya, who suffers a heart attack after a sudden and unfair dismissal. In solidarity, her friend and colleague Jyoti decides to take on Kamini and the misdirected board of trustees, led by Anmol (Arya Babbar). This entails using a TV channel as a platform for reminding viewers that teachers need support, recognition and more pay.

The drama ends with a recovered Vidya and Jyoti taking on a Who Wants to Be A Millionaire-style quiz to win 5 crore rupees. The trade-off is that if they lose, they will have to accept their termination and leave their profession respectively. Vidya and Jyoti use their talents and win the quiz battle. Unwillingly, the trustee Anmol signs the bank cheque of 5 crore rupees. The principal Kamini apologizes to Vidya and Jyoti publicly on the TV show. At the end, Vidya reveals that she will be handing over the money to former principal Indu to build a school where no teacher will be discriminated against and students will have a good education for less cost.

Cast

Juhi Chawla as Jyoti Thakur
Shabana Azmi as Vidya Sawant
Divya Dutta as Kamini Gupta, Principal of Kantaben High School
Upasna Singh as Manjeet
Girish Karnad
Zarina Wahab as Indu Shastry
Sameer Soni as Sameer Thakur, Jyoti’s Husband
Aarya Babbar as Anmol Parekh, Kantaben High School’s Trustee
Adi Irani
Rishi Kapoor Host Of The Quiz Contest (Special Appearance)
Jackie Shroff Principal of DGM School
Richa Chaddha as Bhairavi Thakkar, News Reporter
Karan Singh Chhabra
Kabir Arora
Akshita Arora
Gavie Chahal
Naveen Sharma
Ranjeev verma
Neetu verma
Yug
Jasbir Thandi
Deepali Pansare

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