Film on educational overkill brings back memories of 7-year-old student's suicide

It was only last year when an entire Kolkata was shocked to see how educational burden can ruin even a 7-year-old school kid's life. The suicide of a 7-year-old girl from a reputed private school stunned everyone. The incident once again showed the perils of educational burden.
Now, filmmaker Atiul Islam has come up with a hard-hitting film with a similar subject in his next directorial ‘Kishalay’ that deals with the stern reality of a little girl's school life.Are the digits on the mark sheet everything we need? Also, how excessive pressure in early student life often throws a child into severe mental stress and depression.
The social drama has an ensemble cast including Debolina Dutta, Sudip Mukherjee, Sudipta Chakraborty, child artist Adrija Mukherjee, Vivek Trivedi, Debraj Mukherjee in pivotal roles. The story is by Tanvir Kazi while music has been composed by Amit Mitra and M. Rahaman. Indrani Banerjee and others have rendered their voice for the songs. The film is finally releasing in theatres on November 19.

Atiul’s film has a message for our society, especially for parents. School children in India are being mistreated, and their creativity and passion are being killed, so that they can become machine-like, perfectly trained to become doctors and engineers. How these kids are subjected to educational overkill with an ever-increasing burden of homework forms the crux of the film.