Mentor, friend or muse?

Who said in Tollywood films women don���������������������������t need to work for a living?
They do occasionally get a vocation ���������������������������scripted��������������������������� for them amidst all the song-dance-tear-jerking routine they have to compulsorily do on celluloid. This year, Ileana, Genelia, Kamalini Mukherjee and Kangana Ranaut have all slipped in the same reel vocation: they are teachers! In the past, only a handful of stars essayed the role of the idealistic teacher ���������������������������Savitri (Kodalu Dindina Kapuram), Jamuna (Muganomu), Vanisree (Raithu Bidda) and their successors Vijayashanti (Repatil Pourulu), Suhasini (Rakshasudu).
So what���������������������������s the reason for the local film industry���������������������������s sudden fascination for teachers? Put it down to coincidence and convenience, say industrywallahs. Genelia who plays the role of a chirpy teacher in her new film Katha confesses that it���������������������������s ���������������������������the first time in my career that I am playing the role of a teacher. It���������������������������s an interesting role and I enjoyed being that character a lot. It was sheer bliss to spend some fun moments with the tiny tots who I teach in the film. I could relive my childhood.��������������������������� For chirpy Kaajal Agarwal who���������������������������s just played a warrior princess in her last screen outing, essaying the role of a teacher in Ganesh co-starring Ram, was ���������������������������a different��������������������������� experience altogether.
BO diva Ileana of course regrets the way her role as a teacher in the film Khatarnak shaped up as on screen.
Considering it was a role inspired by Sushmita Sen���������������������������s Main Hoon Na character, Ileana was supposed to be the glam and sassy teacher, but she says that, ���������������������������poor script and narration��������������������������� totally ���������������������������marred the show��������������������������� and has now made her wary of doing an encore as a teacher on 35 mm. Bubbly Kamalinee Mukherjee however, was much appreciated for her ���������������������������dignified teacher��������������������������� act in Happy Days. Co-actor Nikhil who���������������������������s supposed to have a ���������������������������crush��������������������������� on Kamalinee in the same film says the teacher in the film was ���������������������������more like a mentor who inspires me to hone my English language skills in the film and acts more as a friend. The romance between teacher-student were aesthetically captured by filmmaker Sekar Kammula.��������������������������� The latest addition to the screen teacher���������������������������s brigade is Kangana Ranaut, who plays the role of a music teacher in her debut Telugu film. Filmmaker Arunprasad feels, ���������������������������when a leading lady plays the role of a teacher, usually the audience is able to easily relate to them.
A few filmmakers who are desperate for a hit could do anything to sass up the teacher���������������������������s character and present her as a glam character.It���������������������������s best to present a teacher, the way she is in real life ��������������������������� a mentor and a guide.���������������������������