Great movie. Nice job done by Irfaan Khan.
That India is suffering from a massive colonial hangover is no secret. As Irrfan says in the film, French or Germans speaking broken English is no big deal for us, but an Indian struggling with the Queen's English? What a hopeless person! Iss desh mein angrezi zabaan nahi hai, class hai, Saba Qamar tells Irrfan in the film. Saket Chaudhary's Hindi Medium holds up a mirror to us educated folk and our quick judgment of what we call the 'vernie type.'
Mita ( Saba) and Raj ( Irrfan) belong to the nouveau riche, mohalla folk who have risen in wealth after their business of making original copies of designer wear took off. But money alone doesn't make you high society, and Mita's aim is to get their daughter Pia admission in one of Delhi's top English medium schools, by hook or by crook, to make her feel at home among the elite.
