HINDI MEDIUM MOVIE STRUCTURE ANALYSIS

Summary: This movie is about the rich parents, weak with their  fluency in English struggling to get the admission of their kid in the best English medium school in Delhi. Hence the total story is about the ways which parent take to get admission of their kid and the after effects.

As the story was without a bunch of songs and told in a subtle way with the comical elements and Hence I personally had a thought to analyse the structure of this story for retaining what I learnt and also sharing the same.

TWO STRUCTURES

1. SYD FIELD STRUCTURE OF THE STORY.

2. MICHEAL HAUGE

Goal of the protagonist

Goal  of the protagonist is very much evident in this film. As Raj batra and his wife wanted their child to study in a prominent English medium school initially and then the goal changes with the guilt of them taking a chance given through right to education.
Structure is always building the path towards the goal of the main characters. Here the goal is very much evident.

SYD FIELD

ACT 1

• SET UP / INCITING INCIDENT : As in this structure an interesting set up is called inciting incident. Hence according to the structure there is the travel of set up given below towards the plot point 1.

This scene introduces the complete nature of  Mr Raj Batra in a comical way. As he is cool and calm to his customers. Don't shy away from selling the product himself and also the introduction of worker was necessary during the initial stage. As he plays a role afterwards also.

                                   

Hereby Mrs Meeta Batra and child Piya Batra is shown. Her obsession towards the care of her kid is exposed in this scene.This character of her moves the entire story towards the goal. As she wants the best school for Piya.

                                          ( party where Raj batra forgets sophistication humiliating Meeta batra )

Then changing their home to a porch area near school and its after effects which leads to the situation where admission of Piya to Delhi grammar school becomes more than a want to Meeta Batra and Raj Batra is an obedient husband throughout.

Plot point 1

This conversation according to me is the plot point where Meeta Batra tells to the lady in the same porch locality that Piya is also going to study in "Elite school" as mentioned by Meeta in conversation where the other lady's ( played by neha duptia) kid is studying without getting admission in the school.

ACT  2

                        

                                                                                                               

Media showcasing the news as Operation admission with Raj and Meeta trying through different mediums such as standing in que from morning for admission form, going to a Counselor for seeking help on admission and still not getting the admission moved the  story upto fourty percentage of the film.


    
                                                   



After the Counselor  giving up Raj Batra tries everything then comes to a conclusion to give bribe to the institution for admission but didn't succeed. Then the employee in his boutique opens up the news that he got his child's admission in the same school under the provision of RTE(Right to education). This news leads the story forward to the mid point.
Raj Batra then gets false documents of being below poverty line to get her daughter admitted to Delhi grammar school. This leads to further complications when the principal announces the proper checking of the people for RTE.

MID POINT

Mid point is when they come to live in Bharat nagar to escape from the checking.

As the hindi teacher in the school is made to check the status of the people registered in RTE who  gave the complaint to media about the malpractices conducted in school regarding RTE.
Even the small characters in the movie play a role in moving the story forward such as this hindi teacher and the employee of boutique character. As this is one of the important feature to make the audience believe that nothing is coincidence and also this makes the story interesting.

Introduction of this character Shyam in Bharat nagar helps Raj batra in crucial situation of water scarcity. Shyam plays a vital role in story hereafter.
As he also filled a form in the same school for his son.

Shyam and family helping him to overcome the inspection and teaching them poverty following a misunderstanding that they became pauper recently creates an emotional relationship between Raj batra's family and Shyam's family.

Then the day of lot where Piya gets selected and Shyam's child didn't get a chance in Delhi grammar school.
Raj batra and his family comes back to the rich life but the guilt is still there in them. As they did fraud and took away the right which Shyam prakash and his family would have got.

and with the guilt they tend rejuvenate the government school where Raj studied. But Shyam prakash's son also accidentally studied in the same school which leads to the scene where shyam knows that Raj and his family is rich and played fraud in Bharat nagar.

Then the climax of the film starts when shyam tries to complaint about Raj Bhatra going to school but changes his mind after seeing Piya there.

Climax 

finally Raj decides to admit his fault before the principal and goes to her office. This confrontation between principal and Raj bhatra gives start to the climax where Raj rises from a normal helpless man to a person who shows the school that the students of poor people are also as talented as the students of rich people with the help of the  Hindi teacher.

As the resolution of the story is the point where Raj bhatra decides that his kid will study in the government school and not in the Delhi grammer school.

In this film the structure was very much evident. As the structure could be used as a reference after the story has been written to improve the story. Structure will not help in creating a good story.
Another points which I felt in this film which made it interesting were its characters and conflicts which built up the story so well. This film reminded me of two films i.e Pasanga 2( Tamil) for the que scene and most parts of Salt Mango tree ( Malayalam Film).
But I felt still this film has done a decent job in building up the story.