The "ONLY" thing common is teacher and student .... the entire concent of both movies is completely different. By your logic, all courtroom movies are same then since all involve lawyers and judges and show some sort of legal system. Hichki is a movie about "Tourette's Syndrom" and how a teacher overcomes this limitation to successfully become a teacher .... same is with front of class.
To sir with love is NOT about a person becoming a teacher. Its about a man who already IS a teacher and the complications he faces being a BLACK man in a white high school students and how he manages to overcome this.
Both movies are miles apart.
The movie surely not about "Tourette's Syndrom", the movie is still about how a teacher brings in line a class full of unruly students. "Tourette's Syndrom" is here the discomfort that "To sir with love" did with the teacher being "black".
"To sir with love" is a brilliant book about how a black teacher is given the responsibility of a total messed up class. If he fails to bring them in order, he goes out.
If you look closely, "Hichki" too deals with same concept.
b/w if your opinion is on the movie version of "To sir with love", that was a shitty movie. I've read the book and watched the movie too. I can make the difference.
By your logic, all courtroom movies are same then since all involve lawyers and judges and show some sort of legal system.
Aren't you generalizing too much here?
Every courtroom drama is different, I've that much grey matter to make the difference.
But, if two movies deal with same core concept, I'll call them "SIMILAR" and "INSPIRED".