It’s scarily close to the reality despite being dramatised. In the process, Hindi Medium exposes the absurdities of finding a “famous” school for your kid. In Irrfan, he finds the perfect person to demonstrate the ‘India Is English, English is India’ logic with a focus on the social divide. Remember the clash between Rahul Bose and Sharad Saxena in Pyaar Ke Side Effects? His grip over the Delhi lingo and body language is evident from the very first scene when Khan tries to convince Mallika Dua, a customer at his “studio”, to buy a Manish Malhotra replica.Ĭhaudhary probably sees Delhi as a place where the class war is always on. He likes to produce comedy out of ordinary. Hindi Medium is director Saket Chaudhary’s third film after Pyaar Ke Side Effects and Shaadi Ke Side Effects. The Batras want a reputed school for their daughter Priya because they think that will be the final stamp in their upward climb. She thinks moving to south Delhi’s posh Vasant Vihar will give validation to her family’s income and ambition to lead an upper-class life. Raj’s wife Meeta (Saba Qamar), who he fondly calls Mithoo, is determined to break into the Delhi ‘gentry’. A typical rags to riches story, he seems comfortable in his own skin. Raj owns a fashion studio in Old Delhi and proudly calls himself a local tycoon.
It’s a never ending saga of aspirations, humiliation and fight back. You have seen him struggling to fit into a class structure whose exclusivity lies in deduction. Raj Batra’s (Irrfan Khan) hilarious English prompts an uneasy laugh. “I will fire candle every Sunday in church.”
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