Tare Zameen Par

[paulami]

Dyslexia is a neurological deficiency in which a person’s brain has
difficulty in processing written and/or verbal language. It is not an
intellectual disability and neither is a person mentally retarded. Some of the
world’s famous people who had dyslexia were, Albert Einstein, Tom Cruise,
Agatha Christie, Jay Leno, Anthony Hopkins, Richard Branson and John Irving.

Ishaan(Darsheel Safary) is a day dreaming 9 year old kid who would rather spend time painting and observing fishes in the pond and with his pet dogs rather than studying and playing with kids of his own age. He can not concentrate on his studies and keeps getting poor scores in school. When hereads, the letters get all mixed up and he has difficulty in writing and even
gets mixed up with numbers. Corporal Punishment at school and equally strict supervision at home by his mother(Tisca Chopra) and father(Vipin Sharma) makes Ishaan more and more bitter towards the world and almost takes him towards a depressive mode. The only person who is keen to support him is his elder brother, Yohan(Sachet Engineer). The straw that breaks the camel’s back is when Ishaan submits a false absent note to his teacher to skip his class and that is found out by his father. His father then buts him in a boarding school in Panchgini where the rules are more strict than what it was in his school. Then comes a new Art Teacher, Ram Nikunj(Aamir Khan) who discovers that Ishaan is not a normal child but suffering from dyslexia. He convinces the principal of the school to let him study with the normal students and gives him extra attention and special training to make sure Ishaan passes his exams.

There are very few movies made for children or who have children in the main lead. The last such film I can think is Mahesh Bhatt’s Zakhm way back in 1998. An issue based movie is hardly made in India and Aamir Khan has broken all the norms by deciding to make his directorial debut with such a drastically different film and kudos to him and his creative team of writers, Production Designer, Shruti Gupte,Researcher Deepa Bhatia and writer and creative director Amol Gupte for making such a fine film.This is a must watch film for all film lovers.
It also takes lots of guts for an actor of Aamir’s caliber to be in a supporting role and give all the limelight to a 9 year old kid, and that too in his directorial venture. Very well made film. Please don’t give this a miss.

[agang]

tzp is a great film

only thing is that the romanticism created around dyslexia of great people is a bit misplaced...einstein seems to have done very well in school..and that he was dyslexic is more myth than fact

this of course in way affects the emoticism of the film

anirban