Actor Emraan Hashmi introduced the first day of shoot of his upcoming feature, Cheat India (2019), with an intriguing but brief video on Twitter. Hashmi is seen playing the board game Scrabble by himself. Against the word ‘India’, he is trying to make the word ‘teach’ but changes the letters to make ‘cheat’ instead.
Directed by Soumik Sen, Cheat India is inspired by true events that have taken place in the Indian education system. The drama will look at the pressure Indian students face to excel in their education and how they sometimes resort to crime to get the results they need.
The film, with a Republic Day weekend release in 2019, will go up against the period film Manikarnika: The Queen Of Jhansi and the biopic, Super 30, starring Hrithik Roshan, that revolves around a teacher and his goal to train those deserving 30 students from poor backgrounds for IIT-JEE exams.