Bollywood Cinema above the cinematic experience

On last Sunday I was watching a beautiful documentary on Mathematics on you tube, suddenly one pop up was there for suggestion. When I clicked on suggestion, I was navigated to the trailer of movie “Shakuntala Devi” with Vidya Balan as lead artist. During the year, we had movies like Super 30, URI, Mangalyan having teachers, scientist, and soldiers as the central theme of movies. Being a professor, it feels really good to watch the story of real heroes on screen. Suddenly one question pops up in my mind that do we have any movies which are also good for learning finance? If we search for the same on internet we will get a long list of movies but most of them are from Hollywood. Don’t we have a single movie on economist or accountants or subjects covering the financial aspects? In this blog, I am going to discuss about the Bollywood movies having the finance or financial education as a part of story plot. Let’s look at the Old Bollywood movies having noteworthy subject of livelihood i.e. money and finance as the central theme.

Shree 420 (1955)
Shree 420 is widely known as one of the best cinemas having the lead roles of Raj Kapoor and Nargis. All generations are in tune with melodious songs till today. One need to understand that Shree 420 also highlights the betrayal of common man by ponzi schemes like “House in Rs.100”. Shree 420 educates us about the difference between the normal return, abnormal return and grid. Even after 65 years of its release, there are much news about the financial frauds and their victims resulting into the urge of spreading financial literacy among the common man.
Ghar Ghar ki Kahani (1970)
We always anticipate our parents as a super couple and keep our expectations on high side. Even most of the Indian parents provide everything as per their financial capacity. Due to affordability issues sometimes they also fail, and then parents always face the round of questions from kids for not getting the particular demanded thing.  Ghar Ghar ki Kahani starts with the same arguments between kids and their parents but ends with educating the kids about Budget, budgetary control and team spirit.
Manjhil (1979)
May be you are not aware of this movie but I am sure, you all love “Rim Jhim Gire Savan” the divine song from this movie. This movie is kind of 3 hours crash course for the start-up entrepreneurs. It underlines the struggle of new businessman, his fight against the system and perseverance for making his business successful.
I am fond of movies as I believe this is the strong medium of education for creating long lasting audio and visual memory. Even scenes with short length from any movie can give you the reason to lead the life. Mother India is known for showing & respecting the strength of the Indian womanhood. I remember one scene from the same movie featuring Sunil Dutt and his childhood friend. He was shown as an illiterate person and having trouble to understand the Loan – interest (loan recovery) system imposed by money lender. Her childhood friend came to rescue by explaining the whole concept in very simple language and using the most available resource i.e. stones. I guess that was a very innovative way to show learning and teaching in the simplified manner with the help of available material rather than looking for what cannot be available or affordable. 

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