In 2009, a Malayalam movie, 'Makante Achan (Sons Father) was released depicting the trauma faced by a youth who wanted to be a musician and singer but his village officer father insisted on his becoming an engineer.The son lands up in a .
The aspirations of middle-class parents, NRIs, government servants, middle-level business people are to make their children reach the top with both engineering and medicine being the most sought after professions.