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Emraan Hashmi requests meeting with Prakash Javdekar to discuss education system ahead of Cheat India

Emraan Hashmi's film, Cheat India, will focus on the malpractices prevalent in the Indian education system.

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FP Staff|Jan 08, 2019, 12:29:02 IST
Emraan Hashmi has requested to meet Union Minister of Human Resource Development Prakash Javdekar this week in Delhi to discuss the Indian education system and its future. The actor's film Cheat India, which is slated to hit screens on 18 January, focuses on the malpractices prevalent in the Indian higher education sector.[caption id="attachment_5855501" align="alignnone" width="825"]Cheat India poster (left), Prakash Javadekar. File image

Cheat India poster (left), Prakash Javadekar. File image[/caption]Citing that student suicides are increasing "multifold', Emraan wrote on Twitter:

On 5 January, Aditya Thackeray had tweeted an image of a news report on education minister Vinod Tawde ordering the arrest of a student for allegedly live recording an interaction. Thackeray wrote, "Every student must read this. 'The education minister of Maharashtra directs cops to arrest student.' Why? Because he was shooting an interaction! No tough questions please! They want Youth only to man their electoral booths, not answer questions about education & jobs."Emraan Hashmi reshared Thackeray's post with the caption, #ThisisCheatIndia. Soon enough, the story began trending on Twitter.Cheat India, which was slated to release on 25 January alongside Thackeray, was moved to 18 January to avoid the box ffice clash Shiv Sena supremo's biopic.

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First Published:Jan 08, 2019, 12:26:36 IST
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