2017 · comedy · drama · social
Hindi Medium
Directed by Saket Chaudhary2h 12m2017
Mita and Raj Batra, an affluent couple from Delhi’s Chandni Chowk, are grappling with getting their daughter admission into an English medium school. But there is one big problem. Their zubaan is Hindi, and the elitist snobs won’t let the Hindi speaking hoi-polloi fit in.
Our read: Hindi Medium (2017) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · social entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender.
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