Kho Kho Tamil HD Released

   Malayalam Remake

“A good teacher does not just teach children, she also learns from them,” a wise old man tells Maria Francis on a quiet evening at her home in Perunthuruthu. Maria has been recruited as a physical training instructor at the local government girls’ school and is assembling a team of kho kho players among the students.

It is not an easy task. She has been informed already that kids here tend to quit their education after school to financially assist their families. They are not impoverished, but they are not comfortably off either. More important, the lack of opportunities in the place has further fuelled the students’ and staff’s lack of drive.

Writer-director Rahul Riji Nair’s Kho Kho is different from films in the genre that have focused on problem children and crime/poverty-stricken communities, the most famous of them being the 1967 British production To Sir, With Love. Kho Kho is instead the story of a teacher who comes to terms with her own troubled past while inspiring a bunch of not-particularly-ambitious kids of short-sighted, not-particularly-ambitious parents in an unambitious school to look beyond their pint-sized goals.

You don’t need to go the extra mile to earn your salary, the principal assures Maria Teacher o­­ne day, you will get it anyway. She does not sit still though.

Rajisha V­­­­­­ijayan plays Maria, a woman who once gave up her dreams in tragic circumstances and is keen now to spur others never to do likewise.