Teachers in features

is perhaps the worst thing that could ever happen to you.

6. Vidya in Shree 420 even though teachers teach us lessons, sometimes they can be very painful to learn.

10. Miss Chandni from Main Hoon Na

Who says beauty and brains cannot coexist in a person? Who says that just because a woman looks like a model, she has to walk the ramp? She can very easily walk down the corridor of a school too! Although this doesn’t mean that she won’t dress like a model!

Sushmita Sen is every schoolboy’s dream in this fully entertaining movie by Farah Khan. She is smart, strict and sensible, with just the right amount of sweetness to make her a student’s favourite.

9. Ms Briganza in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai “Pyar kya hota hai? Anyone, anyone, anyone?” Well, it can be hard taking teachers seriously when they start asking such deep and romantic questions, in fake British accents while wearing miniskirts to class. That is of course, any teacher but Miss Briganza….Aaahh!

8. Johnny Mathew in Rockford

There are very few teachers who are responsible, hardworking, and also cool, man!

Sir Johnny Matthew is one of those few. In a time when the topic of teen love and crushes was such a taboo with parents and teachers, actor/director Nagesh Kukunoor plays the role of a teacher who believes that it doesn’t matter if you make mistakes, what matters is if you learn from them or not. Rockford rocked so much more for your presence, Sir Matthew.

7. Miss Geeta in Swadesh

Good teachers teach you the difference between right and wrong; they make you understand that you should be a good person and that, whether in a park or in a classroom, fighting is bad. But the best teachers are those who teach you that there is right and wrong, and also an inbetween, which is the part that you will deal with most of your lives. They make you understand that you must not just be a good person, but the best person that you can be, and that you owe it to yourself and the world to be the best version of you. The best teachers teach you that fighting is bad, but giving up on what you believe in,

Old Hindi movies are so charming because of how deep, yet obvious they are. Nargis is Vidya, a virtuous and idealist teacher, and on the other side is the superficial temptress Nadira, playing Maya. Ichak dana bichak dana is a song that most people and all ages know and love, and the credit goes entirely to the teacher.

5. Professor Amar Verma in Sir

There are teachers who change your attitudes, and then there are those who change your lives. The name of the movie is enough to get this one into our Teacher’s Day list. Naseeruddin Shah is unforgettable and Pooja Bhatt, splendid.

4. Raj Aryan Malhotra in Mohabbatein

The heavy duty name suggests that the teacher is heavy duty, and he’s going to rustle some leaves and make a little noise. In Mohabbatein, that’s exactly what Shah Rukh Khan does, even if it means that he suffers so that his students can live their life to the fullest.

3. Mary from Mera Naam Joker

This teacher and student story is as bitter here, as it is sweet. The story tells us that

2. Debraj Sahai in Black

Our parents give us life, and guide us through it with the help of our teachers. Black is the story of a teacher who not only guided his student, but actually gave her life. It also has a beautiful and hopeful end. Teachers are always the ones giving, always the ones making the difference, but there are very few lucky students who get to do the same for their teachers.

1. Ram Shankar Nikumbh in Taare Zameen Par

A teacher becomes a favourite for different reasons. Some are good because they are funny; some are strict, some smart, some pretty. But if there was a superhuman teacher, the superhero of all teachers, someone who was made by combining the right proportion of all these qualities into one single teacher, it would be Nikumbh Sir from Taare Zameen Par

He is our favourite teacher not just because he loves life and children and books, but because he loves teaching. Nikumbh Sir takes pride in the fact that he is a teacher and that’s what makes him our No. 1 teacher on this list!