Mumbai, October 05: Debutante director Habib Faisal says that his film ‘Do Dooni Chaar’, releasing this week, is a story about the state of teachers in India.
The film starring Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh, who makes a comeback to silver screen after 30 years, will release on October 8. Rishi plays a mathematics teacher.
About the movie, Habib said many personal experiences have found their way into the screenplay.
“Often with my father, I would run into some ex-student of his, all grown up, in a swanky car. The student would be gushing, thanking my father for all the good things he taught, which made him successful.
My father on his old scooter would be pleased by the gratitude, thrilled selflessly to see his student doing so well. And I, a teenager, would be sitting on the pillion cursing him for having opted for such a low-salary profession. Such and other incidents also found their way in the screenplay,” the director said.
He said ‘Do Dooni Chaar’ deals with two universal truths…everybody wants to buy a car and that a car is not just a mode of transport, it is a status symbol. Secondly, teaching is a thankless profession; however hard our teachers (specially school teachers) work, teachers don’t get their due.
The idea to make a movie took shape when Tata Motors launched the idea of the world’s cheapest car Nano.
“What struck me was that even with petrol prices escalating, massive traffic jams and pollution that can kill you there was so much excitement at the prospect of becoming car-owners,” he said
–Agencies