In civil service officer and debut director Paparao Biyyala’s Telugu-Hindi film, Music School, scheduled to release in theatres on May 12, the music teacher (Shriya Saran) and drama teacher (Sharman Joshi) in a school struggle to get the undivided attention of seven students to stage a play The Sound Of Music, since their parents want the children to focus on academics. Music School is an Ilaiyaraaja musical that attempts to discuss the academic pressures on students in a lighter vein.
Music School has recreated three iconic songs from The Sound of Music stage musical — ‘Do-re-mi’, ‘Sixteen Going on Seventeen’ and ‘So Long, Farewell’ — by procuring the rights from Concord Company. The 1959 stage musical composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II was adapted into a film in 1965, starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.
