like a medal for most middleclass indians and the admission process is traumatic irrfan pointed outin the film his raj batra a nouveauriche boutique owner desperate to get his sixyearold daughter pia into the school of his wifes choice takes the extreme step of moving with his family to a poorer neighbourhood to avail of the right to education rte quota for the underprivileged in response to my query of how much like batra he is irrfan shared that for him personally it doesnt matter if someone is from welhams or stephens i sent my kids to an alternative school with hardly any facilities in the formative years i have met hundreds of successful children from government schools and very mediocre highly non stimulated children from private schools so essentially its about the individual the child if someone has to bloom they will irrfan asserted going on to emphasise that as a person he would never do what raj did in hindi medium but then i am not him and he is not me thats the fun in acting how to find the essence even if you are not the same i am not as streetsmart as the character but i know people like him exist so i could relate to himhe went on to explain the process of getting into character saying its enjoyable to be somebody who shares some of your thoughts and vice versa the character evolves from its relatability to the actor then boom its there for the actor to follow he stated adding that he is also not an extrovert like angrezi mediums champak bansal but i am a father and with that small essence i went ahead the character happened and was played by irrfanthere are other ways in which the two films are different even though both take the discussion on education forward in a lighthearted way i had a wife saba qamar in hindi medium so we were parents to our daughter pia dishita sehgal while in angrezi medium i am a single parent so its a bigger responsibility and its special because one doesnt want to f up in bringing up their child youre always scared of being judged by the departed partner the child is not only your child but also the memory of your wife you want the best for your child but at the same time you dont want to let her go away as she is your only surviving bond he reasoned adding that the kids pia hindi medium and tarika radhika madan are also in different age groups so pose a different set of problems actually in hindi medium the problem is more related to parents while in angrezi medium the concern for the child is the bigger crisis the most interesting part was that my character champak wants to play the mother of the child in a patriarchal society this has its own unique problemsits been almost two years since irrfan left for treatment for