Will ‘Badlee’ show new direction to rural education?

 Education in rural areas has played a very important role in Nation’s progress.Now, a new Marathi web series ‘Badlee (बदली)’ produced by Mansi Sontakke and written and directed by Nitin Pawar is all set to release on Planet Marathi OTT platform from 15th January 2022. Set on the backdrop of a rural area, this six part web series revolves around a teacher from city who comes to a village to take up the challenge to educate the rural children.

Speaking about this web series, Planet Marathi Head Akshay Bardapurkar said that till now, they presented web series on different subjects keeping in mind the interest of the audience from city side. But now, they have decided to offer some good subjects for the benefit of audience from rural sector and take this subject worldwide. So, it remains to be seen whether ‘Badalee’ will show a new direction to rural education.

Badlee Marathi Web Series poster
Badlee Marathi Web Series poster

Teaser of this web series was released on social media recently, which clearly shows what challenges the teacher has to face while educating the rural children. Veerdhaval Patil has done the cinematography of this web series while music and background music is by Mandar Patil.