Emraan spearheads a campaign to reform the Indian education system
With Why Cheat India that is up for release this week, Emraan Hashmi has launched a bold new initiative. The year 2018 saw the emergence of the #MeToo movement for women in India, empowering them to speak up against sexual harassment at the workplace. Given the state of the Indian education system and the ordeal that students and parents are forced to go through, Emraan proposes a #MeToo to enable students and parents to name and shame the stakeholders in the system who wronged them either for admission or for clearing an exam. The movement is in line with the theme of the film which releases this week.
A source reveals, “The objective is to expose college owners, professors, principals, government officials, coaching class owners and clerks, all of whom are complicit in corrupting the system. Emraan is calling upon the aggrieved to reach out to him on Twitter and describe an incident they’ve been through and reveal the identity of the culprit, along with the hashtag #EduToo. He will retweet some of the complaints, and hopes for the media and law and order machinery to take note and address the exposes on his timeline.”
A statement from the producers read, “Education is a lucrative business worth thousands of crores. It decides the future of our country. Parents and students are cheating and being cheated. It’s time to blow the whistle on those who have been extorting money to sell education wrongfully.”
Cheat India, produced by Bhushan Kumar’s T Series, Tanuj Garg and Atul Kasbekar’s Ellipsis Entertainment and Parveen Hashmi’s Emraan Hashmi Films, releases on January 18.