- CHALK N DUSTER is an emotional journey of two teachers Vidya ( Shabana Azmi) & Jyoti ( Juhi Chawla) , serving at a Mumbai - based High School. Their passion and love for teaching, bonds them in a special relationship with their students. Their gratification is good grades, moral values they strive to impart to students.However, in an evil turn of events, a wicked lady, Kamini Gupta ( Divya Dutta) gets appointed as the School Principal, who earlier worked in the capacity of a Supervisor. She is extremely cunning by nature and monopolizes on every opportunity she can find her hands on. In a bid to make profits for the school, she decides to fire experienced teachers to replace them with fresher teachers. The saved funds of which she can boastfully present to the school trustees, at the cost of quality education. Vidya suffers a sudden heart attack due to her dismissal from school. The school management threatens the staff to cut ties with Vidya. At such a time, Jyoti stands up for her friend and colleague, Vidya. Together they fight to earn their respect and credibility as teachers and unite against prejudices set by the management.—Production House
- CHALK N DUSTER is an emotional journey of two teachers Vidya ( Shabana Azmi) and Jyoti ( Juhi Chawla) , serving at a Mumbai - based High School. Their passion and love for teaching, bonds them in a special relationship with their students. Their gratification is good grades, moral values they strive to impart to students. However, in an evil turn of events, a wicked lady, Kamini Gupta ( Divya Dutta) gets appointed as the School Principal, thus changing the fate of the administration. The drama unfolds in theaters from 15th of January, 2016.—Production House
- The film is the emotional journey of two teachers Vidya (Shabana Azmi) and Jyoti (Juhi Chawla) who serving at a Mumbai-based high school. Their passion and love for teaching bonds them in a special relationship with their students. Their gratification is good grades and the moral values they strive to impart to students. However, in an evil turn of events, a wicked lady, Kamini Gupta (Divya Dutta), is appointed as the principal, thus changing the fate of the administration.
Vidya is one of the senior staff members at this fair to middling educational institution, which has thus far functioned smoothly. Everything changes with the appointment of the new principal. The teachers face unpleasant surprises when the popular and considerate Indu (Zarina Wahab) is replaced by the ambitious and cut-throat Kamini, who aspires to upscale this middle-class school. She wants to have modern facilities like swimming pools and AC classrooms, attended by young teachers, to change the image of the school. She cannot remove the tenured teachers, so decides to make their life difficult and forcing them to quit. Teachers' chairs are removed from the classrooms, the tea is no longer free and subjects are juggled so that, for example, the overweight Hindi teacher is now assigned physical training. Fees for students is increased and admissions made more selective to admit only upper class children. Teachers are also forced to pay the fees for their kids studying in the school, as all exemptions are removed.
All of this is too much for the good nature person Vidya, who suffers a heart attack after a sudden and unfair dismissal. In solidarity, her friend and colleague Jyoti decides to take on Kamini and the misdirected board of trustees, led by Anmol (Arya Babbar). This entails using a TV channel as a platform for reminding viewers that teachers need support, recognition and more pay. Kamini tries to buy off Jyoti by promoting her to an admin job as supervisor and giving her husband a large order for computer supplies for the school. Jyoti responds by confronting Kamini in front of the entire teacher staff, but shockingly none of the teachers support Jyoti in her tirade against Kamini. Jyoti is forced to resign from the school.
The outpouring of public sympathy, due to the favorable media coverage means that ex-students testify to the competence of Vidya and Jyoti and expose the school management's decision to terminate both as arbitrary. It also means that Vidya receives enough crowd sourced money to pay off her entire medical bill. She is soon on the path to recovery when an ex-student turns out to be the heart cardio-surgeon of the hospital and takes her under his personal care. TO counter this, Kamini devises a plan to entice Jyoti and Vidya into a Who wants to be a millionaire type quiz. The prize money is big, but unknown to anyone, the questions are designed by Kamini herself to ensure that Jyoti and Vidya lose and expose their incompetence to the entire world.
The drama ends with a recovered Vidya and Jyoti taking on a Who Wants to Be A Millionaire-style quiz to win Rs.5 crore. The trade-off is that if they lose, they will have to accept their termination, but if they win, they get the Rs 5 crores, reinstatement of their jobs and a public apology from Kamini and the school board. Vidya and Jyoti use their talents and win the quiz battle. Unwillingly, the trustee Anmol signs the bank check of 5 crore rupees. The principal Kamini apologizes to Vidya and Jyoti publicly through over the TV show. At the end, Vidya reveals that she will be handing over the money to former principal Indu to build a school where no teacher will be discriminated against and students will have a good education for less cost.
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content
More from this title
More to explore
Most anticipated Indian movies and shows
Percentage shows amount of top page views.