Hichki (2018)

One of the best movie after such a long time. great acting from Madhori!!!

Fmovies: If you are craving for a generous dose of idealism and emboldenment, then Rani Mukerji's drama about teacher-student bonding will scratch that itch right away. It's one of those inspirational films that careens dangerously between being strongly inspirational and insipidly utopian. Mukerji plays the unconventional teacher Naina Mathur who lives with Tourette Syndrome, a nervous system disorder marked by involuntary motor tics and grunting sounds. She has made her peace with it, but it's those around her who find it difficult to be inclusive and graceful about it.

The movie begins with her nerve-racking hunt for a teaching position. She's rejected despited being armed with multiple degrees as the deciding authorities fear that her disorder will stand in the way of her teaching. The feisty Mathur doesn't take it lying down as she gives them a crash course on Tourette Syndrome unflinchingly.

After five years of rigorous hunting, she finally lands a job at a Catholic school whose naming founder St Notker had a speech impediment. The coincidence felt contrived, but more on that later. She's is hired to teach 9F, a classroom of underprivileged rebels-slash-failures in this posh school. The school and its snobbish teachers seem to have written them off as the children of slum dwellers who don't deserve a chance. Mathur is on call to school these incorrigible teenagers. It's a delight to watch Mukerji play Mathur with a blend of consummate conviction, grace and gravitas. It's easy to feel affectionate towards her aspirations and her unconventional methods of teaching. She's the kind of teacher who imparts physics lessons by bribing her students with boiled eggs. It works, as you wish you had a teacher who had stepped out of the box like Mukerji's character.

She also takes several blows for her students, who try their best to smoke her out of the school. From petty pranks to planning mini explosions in the class, the group of 14 have a crazy aptitude for bullying. The first half is dominated by Mukerji winning the reluctant misfits - acted out nicely by young talents such as Harsh Vyas as the rebellious Atish - over with her grit. Since they are children from the slums, there are ghetto-style rap songs inserted to communicate their angst. It doesn't bode too well with the film and seems contrived. While the performances by Mukerji and her gang of students come out with flying colours on the acting front, the film isn't high on novelty. The twists and conflicts are painfully predictable. Actor Neeraj Kaabi plays the token snob who seems to be unnecessarily antagonistic towards the students of 9F. His tendency to vilify them seems unnecessary and Mathur is always trying to prove him wrong. While the casting by Shanoo Sharma is spot on, the camaraderie and the bond that grows between the teacher and the students seems forced. Their kinship doesn't feel organic, which is one of the biggest let downs of Hichki. However, the easy friendship between Mathur and her sibling is touchingly real. While Hichki is intent on communicating life-affirming philosophies such as 'there are no bad students, but just bad teachers' and 'conquer your fear and fly free', there were moments in this drama which are laboriously didactic. The climax, which includes cheating and a painful examination as one of its plot twists, is also unnecessarily dramatic. But that's a minor hiccup - or should I say Hichki - in an otherwise engaging feel-good drama. Be ready to be schoo

I wish I had teacher like Rani... Great message to the world.

Hichki fmovies. It's wonderful that a new year has passed by and Rani Mukerji finally made a comeback for this film. Hopefully 2018 should go through the same streak especially for a film like this.

So Naina Mathur, a woman and teacher to be with Tourette Syndrome gets rejected from multiple schools within a couple of years until one elite school takes her in. Suddenly, Naina's good luck goes into turmoil when she discovers that her students are making her life miserable by pulling pranks on her and breaking the rules of the school not to mention how judgemental the students are towards Naina's hiccup. How Naina bonds with the students putting them on the right track is basicaly what this film is about.

Siddharth P. Malhotra has done a marvelous job with directing and also writing. He keeps the writing straight on point. The dialogues were consistently said in a toneful way engaging the audience. But some scenes will help the audience determine the climax of the film escalating the predictability of the film.

Characterization is surely an issue because the students portrayed in the film will give the audience the feeling that they have seen such films from before that facilitate things like peer pressure such as seeing kids smoking, drinking, showing bad manners, and gambling. Logic fails are ultimate such as not rusticating the ransacking students or the fact that there's only one teacher teaching everything at once.

Performances were simply outstanding and Rani Mukerji kills it. Her portrayal of Naina Mathur suffering Tourette Syndrome will just knoc your socks off. She was nuanced and rustic throughout the film. Shriya Pilagaonkar was pretty good as the mother of Rani and the guy who played Aatish a.k.a Harsh Nayar was just fabulous.

Music was nice and very simple and Jasleen Royal has been known to making great music. Madamji Go Easy and Oye Hichki are the highlights but definitely not the loop listening expectation.

Overall, Hitcki is a beatuiful school drama based on good performances but it majorly did lack characterization. Definitely should check it out at a theater near you.

3.5/5 - Rani Mukerji's comeback luck

Acting as a tourette syndrom patient is a difficult tast that rani mukherji performed really very well. All the emotions with signs and symptoms of this disease must have been extortionately tough. Really impressed. Story line is simple but great. rani mukherji proves that she is the only great actress of her own kind.

Finally after a long time we are getting to see a good content based movie which is actually about the upliftment of the deprived children of the society. I actually loved the children and how they are portrayed in the movie. It also has a message that education can be made interactive and fun at the same time. I just loved Rani's acting and kudos to the makers who have thought of this interesting subject.