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  • Pia.

  • She is everything a parent could want.

  • Bright, industrious...but most importantly to us...

  • ...honest and humble.

  • We're very blessed to have Pia as our daughter.

  • Wonderful, sir...simply wonderful.

  • I could hardly recognize it was our daughter.

  • All my life I spoke Hindi, and my wife spoke English.

  • She won't learn anything in a government school.

  • She'll be terrified if anyone speaks in English.

  • She will be a misfit in society.

  • Then, she will be lonely and depressed.

  • What if she starts doing drugs?

  • We thought that if our daughter get admission in English school...

  • ...so she becomes a great person.

  • So we did everything for her admission in school.

  • Is this a school or five star hotel?

  • Well, even schools these days are nothing short of a five star hotel.

  • Can you spell - 'swimming pool'?

  • If I do, will they let me take a dip?

  • Fine. Tell me, what is it?

  • - Swimming? - Yeah.

  • - First comes 'S' - Yes, what next.

  • You can spell the rest yourself.

  • - Look... - It's not that hard.

  • "I stay awake at night missing you and counting stars."

  • We already changed our house, now you're changing the TV...

  • ...just don't change me next, Mitho.

  • Stop calling me, Mitho. Please.

  • What else should I call you?

  • You can call me...

  • What will you call me?

  • Honey.

  • Four schools have declared their results...

  • ...but Pia's name wasn't in any of it.

  • There is one option...

  • Fill the form...through RTE.

  • There's nothing we can do now. We can't become poor.

  • So let's become poor.

  • Papa, dengue.

  • What son?

  • - What happened? - Where is it?

  • - What happened? What happened? - Sit down.

  • What is it?

  • See...this is dengue. Chikanguniya.

  • Take it away.

  • English isn't just a language in this country, it's a 'class'.

  • "We'll shine like the sun..."

  • "...we dream to touch the sky."

  • The best way to be a part of this class, is to study in a good school.

  • Mom, it's hurting.

  • Pia, from now on only English.

  • Mom, it's hurting.

  • "I've one life... and a hundred desires."

  • "I'll fulfill them one by one."

  • I swear I am going to speak in English today.

  • Because English is India and India is English.

Pia.

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