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Rough Book – A Film On Exam Pressure

Rough Book is a hard look at the education system in contemporary India. Though one of the finest systems in the world, the lacunae in the system have created issues.

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Rough Book is a hard look at the education system in contemporary India. Though one of the finest systems in the world, the lacunae in the system have created issues.

The story is told to us through the eyes of a teacher, Santoshi Kumari, who rallies through a divorce with a corrupt income tax officer to become a teacher of Physics in a school.

Her pupils are in the D division – "D" sarcastically referred to as Duffers by both the students and other teachers.

How Santoshi rebels against the system to fight for her students, forms the bulk of the simply told, yet completely thought provoking film.

The rebellion of the teacher and her students are internalised to make their point.

Video Credits: Ananth Narayan Mahadevan

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