Taare Zameen Par - my review

It is a story of how the harsh world crushes the heart of little ones - little ones who have the ability to think bigger than their school books, little ones who stop to stare at nature, little ones slower than their peers because they enjoy the tiniest things- little ones that are misunderstood!

So how many of us can really think out of the box? How many of us can use our mind to create? how many of us bother to build our own worlds of imagination from the most boring letters n numbers?

World encourages stereotype people- so if you top in school or college you are held is high regard but if you can't get to think out of norms, rules that is okay....you read and read what others have written seldom thinking of writing something new.

Here we have the protagonist , a 9 year old boy,Ishaan - filled with joy - joy collected from nature! Ishaan is extremely intelligent I would say more than even his elders at times, cos his imagination is extraordinary. While his brother just works hard at reading texts from school, he solves jigsaw puzzels, crafts out castles, draws fishes from the pond he saw, does amazing painting work !! Inspite of his abilities parents are questioning his lack of ability in reading and writing, the saddest being sending him to a boarding school rather than asking the little one what his trouble is and solving it for him.

Ishaan ends up hating school , ofcourse one would....I would ! If I say , I hate technologyu or crafts, it must be because I lack talent or simply because I dont comprehend! Ishaan just didnot comprehend reading or writing because of dyslexia. If his own parents didnt acknowledge, how would Ishaan? The result of their boarding school decision breaks his heart, he stops imagining, his eyes become too dry even to cry, he feels cut off from his family- these scenes break our heart....

Towards the end, through the effort of his art teacher- Ishaan masters reading, writing both numbers and letters, his imagination slowly returns.....like any artist he spents time with nature, absorbs the entire scenery by heart and amazing potrays the same on a white paper....

I would say the movie is sensitive, close to heart, tries to break the proto-typing practised on children. We do live in a rat-race world, but not all are as dumb as the whole lot...those few people change the world,they are true invetors!

The movie is well directed, theme and MA songs are excellent, Darsheel Safary is excellent besides Aamir and lets not forget the dialogues are outstanding!

MUST-Watch!