Sister! Doctor!
-Doctor! -He's getting worse…
-Slowly. -Check his BP.
Almost done, sir.
Sir. Sir.
The only two things that you need to change your destiny
are a pen and a notebook.
Sir, where are you going?
Dream big.
'Cause unless you dream it, you won't achieve it.
I have never shied away from hard work.
Wake up!
If they destroy one Alakh, I'll create a thousand more!
Make way!
The dream that you want to achieve requires effort and focus.
That's your real degree.
POWERED BY PHYSICS WALLAH
Prepare yourself to make yourself capable and worthy!
Because your capability will be your friend forever.
And good preparation will make you so capable
that IIT will itself come to your doorstep and say,
"It's you who we're looking for."
Hello, children!
Listen, I…
I think I want to shut down Physics Wallah.
BARIYAR BIHAR
Come on, everyone, stand in line. Keep an arm's distance.
I told you about it, right? Yes.
-Hello, Mr Singh. -Hello, sir.
Yeah, I wasn't talking to you.
Yes, I'll think about it, okay? So what else is happening?
Just go get me some water.
This is your book?
Hm, go.
Go sit.
Hm?
Ow!
Have you come for a picnic?
Where's your notebook?
I drank two litres of water, but I was still hungry,
so I sold my books and bought some snacks.
-Dance for us! -Ow, ow!
SCIENCE
Show us your moves! Come on.
Your stomach is like an endless black hole.
When the school provides food,
you stuff your face like there's no tomorrow, isn't it?
Go. Go and squat.
Hariya, where's your notebook?
Sir… Uh…
Sir, my mother said that she'll get paid tomorrow, so after that…
Hey! Don't you dare help him.
He'll bring his own notebook.
Until he doesn't, he'll join Bhola.
Okay? Show me your hand.
Show me, show me, show me. Come on. That's better.
The other hand. Come on. Now the other hand.
Do you like it? Huh? Hm?
Yeah? Go. Get lost!
Get up! Squat like a chicken!
Jhilmil isn't here?
Sir, he's moved to the city and he works there.
He washes dishes for 10,000 rupees a month.
Good to hear. At least someone's working.
He's making an honest living. That's good.
Hey, Shankar, write this on the board.
Everyone, open your books and tell him about Newton's law of motion.
Write down.
What are we going to study today?
-Newton's laws of motion. -Tell him.
Hello, children!
So let's get started.
How are you all? Hope you are doing well.
You have to go in fully prepared, Alakh. These are 11th grade children.
You are no star teacher for them.
They are going to judge you according to this class.
This is a first class for them.
And as far as they are concerned, for you too.
You must have had fun over the weekend. So tell me now, who watched the game?
Read a few comments, make a few jokes.
Have a good laugh. Make fun of the kids, and yourself.
Rahul writes, "I couldn't watch the game
as I broke up with my girlfriend."
"I want to win her back. Give me tips."
Don't forget, it's not just a class. It's a show.
Wow, Rahul, my God.
There's a Bollywood hero in every nook and corner of our country.
Listen, buddy, my girlfriend dumped me too.
So I shouldn't be giving you tips.
But, yeah, here, you get tips on physics for sure.
I give you my word on that, one hundred percent!
So let's get started
with our very first class.
You can't lose focus even for a second.
You've got to make them fall in love with physics.
So, kids, I'm here to tell you how amazing physics is.
If they fall in love with physics, they fall in love with you.
How the day turns into the night,
the heat, the cold, the falling of the rain,
the spectrum of a rainbow forming in the sky,
the rising and the falling of waves in an ocean,
and the volcanoes going boom-boom, boom-boom while erupting…
It's very easy to teach the ones who are willing to learn.
But the ones who are not willing to learn,
if you teach them, then you are a teacher.
…my voice which you're all able to hear now,
the light because of which you are able to see me.
How did all this come to be?
What are all these magical tricks?
Don't worry. This is what we call "physics".
I hope it rhymed.
Well, physics deserves that much at least.
Now see, is science real or is God?
There shouldn't be a discussion on that because maybe both of them are the same.
And that is physics for me.
Physics is love. Because it fits everything like a glove.
Rahul, I hope you're listening to me.
Physics is love.
Now, they'll ask questions.
You'll answer their physics questions all year round,
but the questions that are asked today will be the important ones.
Smriti writes that she wants to be a doctor,
because a doctor is almost like God.
No, Smriti, doctors are not like God at all.
Aren't you preparing for your NEET exam? Aren't you a human being?
And what do you think, by clearing an exam,
or getting a good rank, and by getting entry in AIIMS,
you'll actually become a God?
No. It doesn't work like that.
For that, you're going to have to make sacrifices in your life
almost every day.
And also…
if some day you end up making a small mistake
and somebody loses their life,
you think you'll be able to live with that guilt all your life?
Okay, forget about other people's lives.
What happens when you have to put your own life on the line?
So, children, doctors are not like God.
A good doctor becomes next to God by doing his work diligently every day.
You get that, Smriti?
You have to decide for yourself
whether you want to be a successful human being
or do you want to be someone who helps people recover and do God's work?
-The choice is yours. -Sir?
Sir!
-What happened? -We're getting late for the meeting.
What meeting?
With the investment banker? The funding meeting.
Prateek, I don't understand
why you keep bringing this "funding" into the picture.
Everything is going well.
We have an amazing office. We have amazing courses.
We have great teachers. We have a great team here.
When everything is going well, why do we need funding?
No, please explain to me why.
No, you're not getting--
No, I would really like to know why we need funding.
Okay. I'll tell you.
What do you mean, "That's all you get for 4000 rupees?"
Listen, funding is the only way you'll get the best teachers
and the best servers in this price range.
Listen, server costs or whatever it is,
I want people to be able to watch our videos everywhere.
That user lives in the state of Jharkhand, literally in the middle of a jungle.
She travels 50 kilometres every day to get her OMR sheets.
Stop all of the material which is ready for dispatch.
Whatever's dispatched, call it back, add OMR sheets and send them back.
What about the cost?
You always want to help those in need.
We’ve reached 10 million children by teaching on YouTube.
But our target is 250 million children, right?
This is why we need the funding.
Forget about your classes for a bit. Right now, this is important.
You serious right now?
Have you forgotten? Should I jog your memory?
I'm a teacher.
One second. What is this?
It's the PW app. The Teacher Leaderboard.
I'm at the 23rd position right now.
My teaching is suffering because of all your meetings.
Here, this is proof of that.
Last week, a student gave me a one-star rating.
I haven't been able to sleep properly since then.
Have you seen my face?
The whole office knows about it.
This is all we were discussing throughout the week.
We even called that kid last week.
We spoke to him, and asked him what happened.
You know what he told us?
"Alakh sir was my number one teacher, so I gave him a one-star rating."
You don't have to lie to me to cheer me up.
Listen, I'm not kidding. You just have to take my word for it.
Forget this leaderboard nonsense.
You're not a bad teacher.
The others are just better than you, that's all.
I have to go.
-Where are you off to? -I have a class.
What?
There's still an hour and a half to go. Why are you in such a big hurry?
See, the thing is, Prateek,
there are teachers out there who are far better than me.
It takes me a little extra time to prepare.
Enjoy your tea.
So, children, doctors are not like God.
A good doctor becomes next to God by doing his work diligently every day.
How was that? Yeah!
Bro, I found it! Found it!
What? A movie link?
No, bro… …my goal!
Oh? You found it now?
I found my goal ages ago.
Number one, prime minister,
and by chance, if that doesn't happen,
then I'll become a cricketer for sure.
I'm done living like this. I want to get out.
Do something really big. I want to be famous.
You want to be famous?
I know what to do. I'll show you how to become a god.
-Yeah. -Look at this.
So all I need to do is fill a form to become a god?
So do you want to keep checking other people's status
on social media all your life,
or do you want to build a status for yourself in life?
Whatever you say, bro.
This tattooed teacher speaks really well.
That's true.
Shut up! I said shut up!
I'm not interested, dude. I don't want to hear it.
Not studying is not an option at all.
Hey!
-Would you like to become a god? -Yes, of course.
Give it to him.
Hey, Bhola, listen.
Even I want to become a god.
-Here. -Let him also listen.
-Hey, even I want to hear. -Hey, just stop it, okay?
Stop that. What are you doing? Stop pulling. Just hang on a minute.
Hey! Who's dying to get beaten up today? Huh?
Uh, sir, a question popped up in my brain.
This guy has a brain?
And a question too, yeah? Go on, ask me.
Uh, sir, actually, it popped up in Hariya's brain.
-So Hariya will ask you. -Oh, Hariya has a question.
-Ask. -What is it, son?
Actually, sir, I… How does one go about becoming a doctor?
You want to become a dacoit?
No, no, sir. He was asking about becoming a doctor.
Oh-ho-ho.
So you want to become a doctor now?
-Is it? -Yes, sir.
Can we talk about your grades, Dr Hariya?
Okay, forget all that. Let it go.
Tell me how much does your father earn?
All your families' combined earnings will still not be enough.
Do you know who tried for medical school from our village?
The village chief's son.
He spent 400,000 and got a rank of 200,000.
Now divide 400,000 by your father's salary.
Come on, do it.
You need to make preparations even to prepare.
Which your parents never thought of.
You have to study for 12 hours every day.
You spend eight hours doing manual labour.
For argument's sake, let's just say that somehow you pull it off.
Do you know the course fee is five million rupees?
Now divide that by your father's salary.
How many lifetimes will it take? Hm?
-Sir, but-- -Did you bring your notebook? Huh?
Mr Doctor can't even bring his notebook.
Come here. Do the chicken squat! Come. Come on!
Hurry up. Do it. Come on!
Do it!
Hm. Dr Hariya,
will you write the prescription on the patient's hand?
Quiet.
Everyone, listen to me carefully.
The people who are struggling to make ends meet
can't afford to have big dreams.
Got it?
He wants to become a doctor. Idiot!
He looks like the chicken God to me.
-Hey, Prateek. -Hey, what's up?
So how did the class go?
The rank keeps going up.
Alakh, three teachers have put in their papers.
Which ones?
Sahil, Gaurav, Manish. And Varun has also got job offers.
Let's match the offers. Retain them. They're all very good teachers.
I completely agree with you, but if we do that,
then the hiring of the tech team will have to be put on hold.
And the server needs an upgrade as well.
Look, you know as well as I do that we need the funding,
but you just won't listen to us.
All you want to do is teach.
So their departure is inevitable.
Then right after that, you'll top the leaderboard.
Hello?
Yeah, fine. I'll be there tomorrow.
Listen, buddy, don't be sad, okay?
Our teacher wasn't good enough to become a doctor,
so he's taking it out on us.
Listen, bro, we can still become God.
I even have the personality for it.
Stop messing around. I'm not in the mood.
Just listen to me!
Not 400,000. There's coaching for 4,000.
Four thousand rupees? For coaching?
Listen! Must be a discount of 4,000 on 400,000.
Don't be stupid, okay.
No idiot is going to teach for that kind of money.
The same guy. The teacher with the tattoos on his arms.
That guy, Physics Wallah.
He prepares you for NEET just for 4,000 rupees.
Just 4,000 rupees?
Yes, bro.
Hey, Hariya, where are you going?
I'm off to get the money together.
Hello! How are you?
Mm. Hurry up and finish your work fast.
You want to buy gold? The rates are too high right now.
-You can't afford it. -Shut up!
I was talking about work, you fool.
-So we are doing that. -So hurry up with it.
Come on, what are you doing? Hurry up.
Hey, Ladaiya.
Where have you been? You're not to be seen.
Hello! Not Ladaiya, I'm Hariya.
Listen. Have you seen my mother around?
She must be around somewhere. Go look for her.
And listen, we've got a new tender to build a road.
Are you interested? You can make a quick buck.
Hey, listen, if you don't want to work on the road,
at least break the wall down.
Aunty!
Yes, Hariya?
Where's my mother?
Your father got sick. She's taken him to the hospital.
Listen, his liver is badly damaged.
A liver transplant is the only option.
Medicines can help him cope with the pain,
but he'll need counselling to deal with his alcohol addiction.
Counselling means what?
Uh, he means to say help him get better.
Here.
A form please.
-Give her the file. -Yeah.
Write the patient's name here, his age here, and the rest you--
Uh, sir, I know how to read.
Here.
-Nine thousand rupees. -Nine thousand?
Three, four, five.
Here, 5000.
One, two… This is 2000.
Physical labour only builds your physique.
Become a doctor. That's the only way you can get out of here.
Yeah, but I need money for that too. Four thousand rupees.
I'll give it to you.
Where are you going to get that from? Hm?
We hang out together. We eat together. We enjoy together.
We do everything together.
Where are you going to get the money from?
Jhilmil lives in the city, bro. He is there for us.
He works at a restaurant. He will get me a job too.
Eight thousand rupees a month.
But don't you want to become a doctor?
It's a full moon night. I won't lie to you, buddy.
You're the smart one, I am not.
Once upon a time, I was your senior.
I kept flunking and ended up in your class.
I cheat in all my exams. Copy from you and pass somehow.
You know this studying and all is not my cup of tea.
I'm not very smart.
The only person who has looked after me after my parents died
has been my aunt, Lakshmi.
So it is my duty to look after her.
I'll go to the city, get a job and pay for the course.
Yeah, I might have to stay away from you guys,
but I'll manage.
But I don't think this is right.
There's nothing wrong with it, bro.
When a man works hard and pulls himself out of poverty,
he makes sure to save as many people as he can.
But before that, those people have to push that person out of poverty.
But you don't have to worry.
I'm always there for you.
You will need money for the coaching, and for other things too.
I'll send you money every month.
Food, clothes, and your rent,
I'll take care of it.
You just get ready to land on the moon now.
There's no need for you to get so emotional.
These are the cards we have been dealt with.
And when you become a doctor,
I know you are going to help me too, right?
Help me become the prime minister. Or a cricketer.
I have my own selfish reasons.
BARIYAR
This isn't narrow vision, it's focused vision.
I've been like this since… since I was a child.
Once I started solving physics problems,
the world around me used to disappear.
It didn't matter if I've had my breakfast or not,
have I brushed my teeth today or not,
have I done my homework for the other subjects or not.
I just… I only see the bullseye.
And now it's just the teaching that matters.
No matter how much I try, this funding, operations, all this…
all of this doesn't matter to me.
Thank you.
Alakh, tell me something.
Why did you force Mom so much to hire a maid?
So that Mom could get some rest in life.
But don't you know Mom likes to do everything herself.
She used to be so particular.
Even if a pin was out of place, she would make a huge fuss.
That's because she loves hearing everybody in the neighbourhood say
that the Pandey residence is beautiful.
Get up.
What?
-Come with me. -I'm not done.
You can eat later. Come on.
-But where are you taking me? -Just come with me.
Look at this.
What?
There were no trash cans on our block earlier,
so people threw trash on the streets.
There was cow dung all over the place. Remember?
Yeah, I remember. I cut the cake once. My favourite shoe got ruined.
All the streetlights on this road were not working for six months.
Children would hurt themselves playing in the dark.
Which means the city is doing a fine job.
Should we go in? I'm really missing the breakfast.
Mom got everything fixed.
What? Mom got this done?
You barely make any trips home to see us.
Since Kavita started working at our place,
Mom has been able to get out.
She noticed all the problems in the neighbourhood.
She got all the trash cans organised.
She even got the streetlights fixed.
Got the CCTV installed as well.
She got the garbage truck to pick up the garbage twice a day.
Imagine, she got the municipality to get things done.
Mom had no idea how to get all this done.
She learned everything.
You are also stuck in a similar situation, Alakh.
Tell me, do you just want to become India's best teacher?
Or do you want to create a platform where every teacher is the best?
A single Alakh can't change the state of education in India.
But, yes, if we have a thousand like you, it's quite possible.
Do you remember how angry Mom was
when we hired Kavita to work for us?
She's your mother.
I'm sure you were upset with Prateek too. Right?
Let's go finish our food.
It is an amazing night And we are going to have a lot of fun
Yes! That is the way.
Let it flow, like a river
Amazing!
-A little more. -Pour it.
There you go.
-Hey, Brajesh. -Yes, buddy?
-What day is it tomorrow? -It's Tuesday.
-What are you saying? -That's why we're enjoying today.
Do you know? High-level officials are coming for the inspection tomorrow?
Whose suspension?
I said "inspection".
-Do you go deaf after drinking? -Inspection. Hm.
They had asked me to break this wall down.
I forgot about it.
Okay, listen to me.
Call some workers right away, and break it down.
Buddy, it's a festival today,
so nobody is going to take the work on.
Brajesh, if you call half a dozen people, two or three might show up.
Make the call now!
How much will you pay?
What? What is he doing here?
Hey, Ladaiya! You want to break the wall?
Hm. I'll do it for you.
Listen, the hammer is twice as big as the kid.
The wall will break him.
Hey, kiddo, listen, go get your father here.
I'll take four thousand.
Huh?
Four thousand?
Okay. It's a deal.
Hey, listen. You have to bring the wall down by 7:00 a.m., understand?
Otherwise, I'm not going to pay you a penny.
Come on. Get to work.
Moving further, uh, so these are our financial projections,
which are also mentioned in your files.
You can have a closer look at it.
And that's it. Thank you.
Good.
Interesting.
-Your numbers are awesome, guys. -Thank you, sir.
Revenue, profits, CoC,
superb.
Except for… the margin.
I know this was your strategy to break in,
but, uh… going forward, we can definitely improve.
Sir, the margin is 60%. It's good.
It is good, but for the other industries.
The education industry is a high-margin industry,
and yours are quite low.
But don't worry. We'll work on it and normalize it.
My team here has done some calculations.
We can place your 4k course to somewhere around 25k.
Twenty-five.
Buddy, you said you're gonna pay him 4,000 for the job.
You think he can do it?
Listen, Alakh, even today your competitors are selling the same course for 40k.
Can you believe that?
Sir, if I increase the price, a lot of my students will miss out.
But we don't need all the students.
Even if we get 40%, we'll hit a great number.
Yeah.
And, Alakh, 25k is still half the price that your competition is offering.
Plus, it will still have that social thing.
-You know? -Absolutely.
And in the education industry, this much margin is normal.
This is industry standard.
Exactly.
Well, I think this can be discussed later.
-But before that-- -No. No.
No.
Uh, sir, if that's the industry standard, then I'm disrupting the industry.
I'm sorry for my tone,
but why is education an industry?
It's the right of every student, right?
Hm.
I'm sorry,
but your proposal doesn't match with my vision.
So…
what is your vision? Tell me.
Sir, I believe education is a great leveller.
And everything that gives people an opportunity for equality,
I'm sorry to say, but businessmen build walls around it.
And my vision is to break those walls.
Air travel, sir. Look.
It doesn't matter where a person comes from,
he can fly to any corner of the world.
A great leveller.
But there was a time air travel was very expensive.
There was a wall around it.
A wall that separated the rich and the poor.
But one man came with a low-cost airline and he broke down that wall.
The internet.
Anyone can get any kind of information from any corner of the world.
Another great leveller.
But then again, mobile phones and the internet
used to be very expensive.
There was a wall.
In fact, even when people used to get incoming calls,
they had one eye on the watch, right?
Then another guy came who made data absolutely free.
And he broke that wall as well.
Coming to education now.
All over the world, higher education costs are ridiculously high and we know that.
And this is a very high wall, sir.
At least India has some government institutions
that give a poor student an opportunity to get quality education.
But again, I'm sorry to say, businessmen did not like that fact either.
They built another wall with the coaching fees
for the entrance exam to enrol in these colleges.
That's a new kind of wall.
Now a rich man's child can spend millions
and surpass the poor man's child very easily.
And the poor child's parents have to work very hard
to put their child through just the coaching for that entrance exam.
They have to save money, they have to take loans.
This is the wall that I want to break.
Now, at least, nobody has to prepare to prepare.
And I am sure that I don't want to miss even a single child.
If there is even one child in any corner of this country
who wants to study,
then he should not be held back due to lack of money.
Because money should not be an obstacle in the path of education.
But everything you've said here, whatever was discussed today,
it was all number-driven.
Transactional jargon.
And I believe education can't be a transaction.
Because education is not a luxury,
it's a birthright.
And that is my vision, sir.
Sorry.
I just couldn't control myself in there.
What are you talking about? You gave such a powerful speech in there.
You should go ahead with the hiring of the tech team.
I am taking a pay cut.
And, yeah, from now on, all the meetings that happen,
I want to be a part of them.
Whether it's funding, academics, strategy, or operations.
What about your classes?
I'm done being a teacher.
Last class tomorrow.
Enough of cleaning the house.
It's time to clean the world now.
Given up already?
Bhola?
Bhola, you said you were going to move to the city.
-Listen, Prateek. -Hm?
I'm sorry.
Yeah, you are right about that. I had taken the bus.
But I happened to see the tattooed teacher's video again.
I… I'm not a very patient guy.
You're the one who has handled everything till now.
Bro, he motivates me, man.
I may not be very smart, but I am not stupid either.
I take a little longer than others, but I eventually get it.
We should build this together.
So, bro, we're gonna be doctors together.
Come on. You wanna keep all the limelight for yourself?
Let me do my bit and bring this wall down with you.
Okay.
Then let's go ahead and make a two-hero film.
I won't be able to do this alone by tomorrow morning.
Long live…
India!
Hey!
Your book?
I won't be able to do this alone by tomorrow morning.
You're not alone, buddy.
Go.
Hello, children!
How are you all? Hope you are doing well.
-Sir? -Alakh sir.
-Sir, the… -What happened?
All the teachers who were given a raise, have just put in their papers. know that.