As the tenth standard exam fever grips Mumbai schools, students ready themselves up for their first public exam in Maharashtra. Like every year, tenth standard-focused coaching assumes serious proportions and solidifies itself as a legitimate industry.

And, at a time when a sizeable population is dealing with the crucial barometer of academic success, a fledgling theatre group in Mumbai mounts a British comedy that questions the examination system. Willy Russell’s Educating Rita is set in the 1980s in working class London.