Paathshaala   Producer: Shaira Khan Director: Milind Ukey Starring: Nana Patekar, Shahid Kapoor, Ayesha Takia, Saurabh Shukla, Sushant Singh Music: Hanif Shaikh Lyrics: Hanif Shaikh Release Date: 09 April 2010   Let us know what you think about this movie Movie Review Coming Soon! Music Review Posters, Wallpapers and E-Greeting Cards

Teaching is a noble profession.

But is it really true in these day of commercialization and consumerism? Every day, we read in the newspapers about students being bogged down with study pressures, parents burdened with fees hikes, teachers punishing students inhumanly, some students even dying in such cases or some committing suicide...what state of affairs we have brought our education system to?

The story starts with the joining of a new English teacher Rahul Prakash Udyavar (Shahid Kapoor) at the Saraswati Vidya Mandir School, situated in the outskirts of Mumbai. Though he creates instant rapport with students and teachers alike, he realizes that there is something amiss in this school.

Slowly his doubts come true as the manager of the school Sharma (Saurabh Shukla) makes many monetary obligations compulsory on the parents in the name of extracurricular activities. He goes to the extent of punishing the students inhumanly when the new unjustified demands of the school are not fulfilled by the parents.

Day by day the stress level among the students increases many folds leading to the unexpected and grim consequences. A situation becomes so explosive that finally it becomes a national issue.

Paathshala tries to answer many questions related to the sanctity of today's education system. The high morals and basic ethics of the teaching have taken a back seat. Profit and more profit have become the new mantra of the education institutions.

Paathshala is not afraid to tell the truth of wrong doings of the greedy educational institutes on the face, neither it spares them from exposing the use of unethical media activities of the children who are not ready for it.