Taare Zameen Par

This is my first post for the New Year. I know all my topics in the blog were kinda senseless, but this one should sound a bit sensible.

I watched Taare Zameen Par on 31st December. I am not here to write the review of the movie. I generally wanted to share the special things in the movie that me go nostalgic. I could see my school days reflecting in the movie. Those home works, punishments and exams everything stood before me.

I have always been a great fan of Aamir Khan and his movies. If you had asked which is ur favorite movie of his, I would say Lagaan. But seriously speaking, Taare Zameen Par would top the list now. This movie is even better than Maniratnam’s Kannathil Muthamittal, still this is my opinion and they do differ.

I couldn’t control my emotions while watching the movie and I felt very sad when I walked out of the cinema hall. This was not only with respect to me, but there were so many people who had the same feeling. I guess most of them would have been nostalgic. I was with my friends; still I couldn’t shut my doors of emotion.

The movie was all about a kid suffering from Dyslexia, a disability to recognize letters and words and also read and write. This movie doesn’t sound like a directorial debut of Aamir. He has the touch of matured directors. From mother character, to showing a roadside dog, everything goes natural. Wow, the kid, at this age realizing the importance, essence and strength of its character acted so well.


The pain, the agony and abash the kid undergoes in the movie definitely makes any kind of a person to feel emotional. I just went back to those homework days, where I hardly touched my homework notebooks and kneeled down outside the class without slightest embarrassment(this was a part in the movie). (Fortunately I dint suffer from dyslexia).

After seeing the movie, there is no need for a person to refer google for knowing about Dyslexia, Aamir has covered every angle of it. (Anyways I have personally witnessed a kid suffering from it and I know how it feels to make it understand what things are. But the kid is exceptionally talented).

Waking up in the morning, talking a lazy bath and munching half breakfast, running for the bus, going to school and waiting to get punished for not doing homework. That is typically a school life. I could see those moments in the movie Taare Zameen Par. Awesome performance by every body in the movie.

There are lots of movies wherein you just watch, come out and forget. Taare Zameen par is one those few movies that will make you watch, think and finally never gets erased out of your mind. I loved every bit of it, every sense of it.

I really don’t want to spoil the essence of the movie by writing my version of it, people watch it yourself and I bet it will definitely take you to those days u spent in school without worries and responsibilities burdening your shoulders. I hope this movie goes from India to Oscars. I hope the jury nominating the movie is blind folded. I hope it takes a responsible decision by sending Taare..... .

This movie is strictly for not those, who watch masala movies directed by perarasu and other much-hyped directors in India. If directors like perarasu takes up this project, then the kid itself would speak punch dialogues in front of the camera, does stunt sequences and surely yes, mother sentiment finds its place. You can wonder why I have written only about perarasu, because he is one such director, who is pulling down the reputation of Tamil cinema by bringing out senseless commercial films, which just deviates the kids, rather than educating them. There are still few directors like him in the league. Anyways I am not here to depreciate their reputation, but to appreciate Aamir’s performance as a Director first and actor only next. Aamir is now in the list of “my favorite directors”. Find out yourself if he has the ability to find a place in your list.