Stars Shine Down.......

Last Saturday was a fulfilling day for I had spent three hours watching a movie that completely moved me. Yes, I am writing about ‘Taare Zameen Par’ with the tagline’Every Child is Special’. I generally go for any movie after reading the film reviews, taking feedback from my buddies, listening to 98.3 Mirchi Bioscope and definitely go by Rajeev Masand’s (CNN-IBN fame) blog for his reviews (I have complete faith in his critics). But this time it was a different story, the film showcases and being an Aamir’s movie was quite enough to drag me to the multiplex. It had to be different and it proved to be so.
Its nice to see some meaningful movies coming our way with ‘Chak De’ with a hockey backdrop reflecting women’s ambitions as well as the women hockey team itself being belittled down by the sports committee, how the players across India are part of the team who play as a whole for the team INDIA. And now we have ‘Taare Zameen Par’ which went ahead with a storyline centering on a Dyslexic boy who felt helpless in this world of competition where your competence is judged by the numbers. If you like painting, if u have great imagination then you better get hold of yourself for such things can get you nowhere in this cut-throat competition, all you need to aim is to get your mark sheet printed in 90 figures no more no less. And, if you fail to have both the quotients (EQ and IQ I meant!) then get ready to be nagged by your teachers, your peer, your dear parents for it wont be long when ull be labeled ’Idiot, Duffer, lazy, crazy’. Mind you this is being expected from an 8 yr old boy.
The fact portrayed that the parents fail to understand their children and provide the emotional support they always seek came as a thunderbolt to the audience. Watching the movie, at some points every parent realized that at times they have been genuinely wrong in understanding his/her child. Looking at today’s scenario with working mom and dad, who even has the time to listen to his/her activities, his achievements and failures. If a child fails then sending him away to the boarding school the only solution, that he loses his very own existence? So the child is there left all alone to fight with this big bad world and he is left being lost and dumbfounded. In the movie, Aamir came as an angel who changed the course of the child’s life and inspired him to live like any other child, encouraged him with his art passion that later ‘Ishaan Awasthi’ the protagonist made his name by winning the first prize at the art festival. The movie is par excellence and a must watch for the not-so-caring parents and for every child to realize their inner dreams and give a go ahead to it. Many interpretations, lot many sentiments a package of emotions-a soul-searching piece.
With such rave reviews around Aamir might definitely be preaching ‘I came, I saw, I conquered’.
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