Happy Teachers Day 2024: From ‘Miss Briganza’ to ‘Virus’, these iconic teachers will take you on a nostalgic trip back to your school days

That time of school days when children used to tell anything to their teachers without any hesitation. Teachers’ Day is celebrated with great pomp every year on 5th September. There are many actors in Bollywood too who have played the roles of different teachers. There are many of them whose characters will remind you of school teachers.

Teachers play an important role in the lives of children. After two and a half years of childhood, children spend most of their time in school with their teachers. During school time, we also meet different types of teachers.

Some explain with love and some with reprimand, but they teach us a lot of things which are very useful in our life later on. During school time, there is always some teacher whom we like the most.

There are many whom we remember for our entire life just for their strictness. Bollywood films have also shown different forms of teachers. Many stars including Aamir Khan, Sushmita and Archana Puran Singh have played the role of teachers on screen, which have become memorable today. One or the other of the characters of these Bollywood stars will definitely remind you of your school days, let’s quickly see the list.

Miss Briganza

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai: How can we forget Miss Briganza on this Teachers’ Day? In this Shah Rukh Khan-Kajol and Rani Mukerji starrer film, Archana Puran Singh has made this character iconic. You must have met such a teacher who used to be the coolest.

Virus

Teacher Virus from 3 Idiots often reminds us of those teachers of our school days, who were as hard as a coconut from outside so that their students get good grades and bring glory to the school and follow discipline in their lives, but were very soft hearted.

Miss Chandni

This list also includes Shah Rukh Khan’s film ‘Main Hoon Na’, in which Sushmita Sen played the role of Miss Chandni. With this role, she became everyone’s favorite actress. Just like ‘Ram’ of Main Hoon Na, there is always some student in school who has a crush on his teacher and she becomes his lifetime favorite teacher.

Nikumbh

The film ‘Taare Zameen Par’ is a story based on the bonding between a teacher and a student. The story of a child who suffers from a disease called dyslexia. He takes a lot of time to learn things as compared to other children.

While his parents do not understand him and scold him for being weak, Ramshankar Nikumbh not only teaches him but also develops his talent. Aamir Khan played the role of Nikumbh teacher very well in the film.

Naina Mathur

If you have the passion to do something, then no one can stop you. This is what Hichki’s teacher Naina Mathur teaches. This character was played by Rani Mukherji, who suffers from a disease called Tourette syndrome. She goes to school to teach children, but even there Naina Mathur is ridiculed. However, she never gives up on her teaching career and becomes the favorite of naughty children.

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Anand Kumar

Hrithik Roshan has also played the role of a mathematics teacher on the silver screen. This is the story of a teacher who himself is from a poor family and meets many children who want to get admission in IIT but do not even have the money.

He teaches children from poor sections of society for free in his ‘Super-30’ class, who later get admission in IIT and this is where Anand Teacher gets a new identity. This story is based on the life of a real-life teacher from Bihar.