It’s an ideal picturization of a true teacher who is portrayed beautifully in the movie. This teacher, in his personal capacity, dauntlessly gives a strong fight with his robust principles to the airheaded and discriminatory dolts who are anti-quota and pro-outside-coaching. But why is it titled ‘Aarakshan’ when it was just a small morality-tester? It should have been ‘Shikshak’ or ‘Shiksha’ or whatever better-suited but this. Given title might have been expected to work out as a marketing tool but it backfired instead and got the movie banned in three states. There are a few good punches relevant to the subject chosen and a lot of unnecessary emotional hammerings, totally irrelevant to the subject which created uncalled for hoopla. It is a movie made to highlight the ironic game between the politicians’ power and today’s teachers’ greed, naming it an Education!
Bachchan smoothly carries the centre of gravity of the movie on his shoulder and Bajpai effortlessly pulls off his cunning bit. Saif's character, grown up under the shadow of his school principal and mentor, Bachchan, is a promising dalit-representative who does justice to the pressing-issue related dialogues assigned to him. Deepika, as tough teacher’s daughter, has nothing more to do with words than expressions which also are not challenging enough to demand her acting skills. Movie overall is okay but honestly, easily ignorable. May be that’s why even I didn’t bother going into the depth for telling a story which has a diluted topic and a different preaching.
