Emraan Hashmi in Why Cheat India
2018 was like a wake up in the entertainment industry with the emergence of the #MeToo movement. The movement where women spoke up against sexual harassment at the workplace. While some of these have purely been publicity stunts, some have landed the offenders in judicial custody.
Now, just a few days before the release of Emraan Hashmi’s Why Cheat India, the actor launches a bold initiative. Given the appalling state of the education system and the ordeal students and parents are forced to go through, Emraan proposes a #MeToo to enable students and parents. This is to help them name and shame the stakeholders in the system who wronged them. The movement is in line with the theme of the keenly awaited Why Cheat India.
The objective is to expose college owners, principals, government officials, and other, all 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. He urges them to 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.
Said the producers,
“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.”
Why Cheat India is produced by Bhushan Kumar’s T-Series, Tanuj Garg, and Atul Kasbekar’s Ellipsis Entertainment and Parveen Hashmi’s Emraan Hashmi Films. It releases on 18 January.
