Boomba may only reach the waist of the average adult, but be wary of this boy with the cute face and tatty clothes. Boomba is the only stu...
Boomba may only reach the waist of the average adult, but be wary of this boy with the cute face and tatty clothes.
Boomba is the only student at a government school, and is fully aware of his role in keeping the establishment running. Boomba has to be dragged to school every morning and his teachers have to woo him to stay there. They are desperate to keep their salaries and are stealing money from allocations for the mid-day meal scheme. The blandishments to Boomba include country chicken and cash.
Boomba Ride might be fiction, but the latest movie from Assamese director Biswajit Bora is based on real events. Bora based Boomba Ride on a television report about a similar instance.
The report helped Bora create a miniature portrait of a state-wide problem: the poor state of schools in rural Assam and the ways in which teachers and managers keep these schools alive just so that they may earn their salaries and other benefits.
The movie is a winning satire, filled with comic moments stemming mainly from the efforts of the teachers to keep their scam going at any cost. But the film’s theme points to a serious problem, Bora told Scroll.in.
“I have seen so many stories about government-run...
