Akshara(2021)
A physics teacher at a corporate educational institution, who aims to lessen the stress on students, at loggerheads with an ambitious educationalist who wants his students to secure top ranks at any cost so that he can gain monopoly in corporate education.
Quick Facts
- Streaming on
- Prime Video, Aha Video
- Theatrical Release
- 26 February 2021
- Director
- Chinni Krishna
- Language
- Telugu
- Runtime
- 2h 16m
- Rating
- 6.3/10
Storyline
A physics teacher wants to reduce pressure on students at a coaching school. He clashes with a ruthless educator who will do anything to make his students get top exam scores, so he can dominate the business.
“A teacher's fight against ruthless ambition in education.”
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Frequent partnerships reunited for Akshara
Cast reunions in this film: Harsha Vardhan & Srikanth Iyengar (3 films together), Harsha Vardhan & Ajay Ghosh (2 films together), Ajay Ghosh & Srikanth Iyengar (2 films together), and Suresh Bobbili & Darbha Appaji Ambarisha (2 films together).
Trivia
- The film's director Chinni Krishna is also a professor of engineering, which influenced the movie's educational setting.
- It was shot in just 21 days, a very short schedule for a feature film.
- The movie was shot entirely in Hyderabad, using real coaching centers and classrooms as locations.
- Actor Naveen Chandra, who plays the ambitious educationalist, prepared by visiting actual corporate coaching institutes to observe.
- The film's title 'Akshara' means 'letter' or 'syllable' in Sanskrit, symbolizing the foundation of learning.
- It had a limited theatrical release and gained more attention after becoming available on streaming platforms.
- The script was partly inspired by real-life debates about student pressure in India's competitive exam culture.