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Friday, December 28, 2007

Little bundles of Joy

Every child is special” and that’s what Taare Zameen Par is all about.

Ishaan is boy struggling to cope with the overload of home works and class works, bullies in the neighborhood and an overachieving brother. Ishaan’s world is filled with asterix, aliens and other such fictional characters.

Aamir does a splendid job in showcasing a child’s dreams and thoughts. Ishaan’s interest in the under water world, his thought process of multiplication and how he sees characters, people and things are brought to the silver screen with sensitivity and creativeness. Kudos to Aamir – excellent directorial debut.

Taare Zameen Par strikes a deep chord within us. We don’t have to force our children to run the rat race and turn into rats. We don’t have to choke them with our ambitions and aspirations. They don’t have to win everything and it is ok to loose. We don’t spend quality time with kids, trying to understand their dreams and passions and it need not be the ones which are largely acceptable by society. It brings to us, a shocking reality of how we manipulate children to really do what we want them to do and kill their spirit.

Ishaan is the real hero in this movie but credits to Aamir for bringing such a movie into an otherwise comedy, glamour sick silver screen.

Children are free spirited and corrupt less bundles of joy. So let them be.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nice post..
U will sure make a wonderful film critic... :-)

Make a movie a "Must see"

Meera said...

@J: It is a must see movie. Film critic???(smiles)

Dammy said...

how many times did u cry while watching? ;)
a trademark Nagesh Kukunoor movie from Aamir ...

har ghar mein toppers aur rankers chahiye ..
go breed horses damn-it .. why have kids ..
hahahahaaa

subu said...

loved that popsicles scene..depicted a colorful view of the world by that child!

Ms.N said...

its time u posted smethin else!@@@@@@@@@@@@@@