Hindi Medium (2017) on Netflix

NR20172h 12mComedy Drama

Mita and Raj Batra want their daughter Pia in an English-medium school, but the family lives in Chandni Chowk and speaks Hindi. They move to an upscale neighborhood for its residency rule.

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Netflix4.0/5
IMDb7.9/1036,582 votes
Rotten Tomatoes82%

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Plot summary

Raj Batra owns a boutique in Chandni Chowk and shares a home there with his wife Mita and their daughter Pia, who is five. Both are convinced that only a place at an elite English-medium school will put the girl on the path into Delhi's high society, and their choice falls on Delhi Grammar School, which ranks first among the city's schools. To satisfy its residency rule they leave their house for a villa in Vasant Vihar and hire a consultant to coach them for the interview, but their English is not strong enough and Pia is refused. Raj then hears from a worker at his shop about the government quota that keeps school seats for poor families, and a broker explains how wealthy parents exploit the scheme. He and Mita decide to pass themselves off as poor.

Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Hindi Medium (2017)

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Saba Qamar made her Bollywood debut in Hindi Medium after Irrfan Khan recommended her to the director and producer, having seen her YouTube videos.
The makers of the Bengali film Ramdhanu, Nandita Roy and Shiboprosad Mukherjee, launched a copyright case against Hindi Medium claiming the storyline was similar to theirs; Chaudhary defended the script as original and the case was later withdrawn.
Chaudhary and his co-writer Zeenat Lakhani came up with the idea of a film about India's education system while developing Shaadi Ke Side Effects, but found it too extensive for that film and turned it into a separate project.
After its April 2018 release in China, Hindi Medium became the seventh Indian film to cross the US$30 million mark at the overseas box office.