Teachers are the most inspiring people in a kid’s life and these movies just perfectly summed the student-teacher relationship.
Movies are the mirror of our society and lives, and in everyone’s life there has been a person whose place is just irreplaceable, and that is, a Teacher. While we all have had our fair share of favourite teachers in school and college, but there are some teachers out there with whom you have a special kind of bond. A bond that makes one of the most important parts of childhood and growing up the journey.
A good teacher is as necessary as a student with good parents. They can help you in growing up to love this world and life and make choices, important choices in life. While parents teach us to grow up for different stages of life, a teacher teaches us to grow up for life in general. They do more than simply teaching a kid, and try to transform them into a good human being.
One bad teacher and a person are scarred for life, and no one wants that. However, these movies on student-teacher relationship showed us how different, fun, difficult and worth it, the entire experience is. These movies have rightly explained what they’re trying to do and because of this, they are simply amazing. Check out 6 brilliant movies from this genre that just gets what a true student-teacher relationship is.
1. Taare Zameen Par
Taare Zameen Par made everyone cry and the reason was simple, and that was its relatability. We all related to the story of how everyone in this life is pushed to become someone that they are not and only a teacher can help a student escape this trauma.
2. Iqbal
Iqbal is considered to be one of the most amazing and underrated movies of Bollywood that had everything in it, which requires one to be a hit. However, it failed on Box Office but that can not affect the overall impression that it left on the audience. Iqbal is a story about a boy named Iqbal who is deaf and mute but has a sheer will of playing cricket. With the help of his sister and his amazing teacher/coach Naseeruddin Shah, he makes it to the National Cricket Team and fulfills his lifelong dream of doing so.
3. Chak De India
Chak De India is considered one of the best sports film in Bollywood, where Indian National Women’s Hockey Team lifts the biggest trophy of their lives with the help of their coach. The coach who brings in together a team of girls from different states and make them a team from one country. Groundbreaking and amazing at the same time, Shah Rukh Khan excelled the role of Coach Kabir and gave one of the finest performances of his career.
4. 3 Idiots
Now, 3 Idiots again will make you question the entire education system in our country where everyone wants you to run in a race and finish it with full marks. And, while there’s no particular amazing student-teacher relationship in this one, Rancho turns into a great teacher for his friends and teaches them the meaning of life.
5. Paathshaala
Even though Shahid Kapoor and Ayesha Takia starrer Paathshaala failed at the box office but it showed the beautiful and understanding relationship between a student and teacher in the most amazing way possible, and everyone loved it. The teachers in this one taught the kids and took care of them, something Bollywood doesn’t acknowledge too often.
6. Black
Black was based on the life story of Helen Keller and how she was able to overcome her disabilities with the help of her teacher and there’s nothing that can define an amazing student-teacher relationship more brilliantly than this one. Both Amitabh Bachchan and Rani Mukherjee gave one of the finest performances of their careers and it’s an absolute treat to watch them perform on this one.
Dedicate these movies to your favourite teacher who helped you in overcoming the complexities of childhood and teenage life.
4th September 2017
Jyotsna Amla