Taare Zameen Par

After a long time I watched a Hindi movie that had real substance and could stand out just on the strength of the story it told. Taare Zameen Par is a special movie. This is also because its theme says “Every child is special.” The movie portrays the life of a young, hapless boy pressured by his parents and teachers to do things that are not just possible through his medical condition of dyslexia. His parents are not willing to accept that he is special – both in terms of his inherent creativity and medical condition. They are not willing to move beyond their accusation that their son is a stubborn fool and compare him to his elder, brilliant brother. No one cares to understand the boy – everyone wants him to behave and perform the only way they are conditioned to see. The boy is lost and is on the verge of a breakdown when a teacher arrives in his boarding school where his parents have dumped him for “improvement”. This teacher, who himself suffered from the same medical condition when he was young, understands the boy’s condition and his need for help. Using the boy’s talent for painting, the teacher brings into him the lost self-confidence, the happiness of his childhood and the love of his parents, friends and teachers. This movie will hopefully open the eyes of millions of parents in India, who are subconsciously trying to fulfill their own unfulfilled ambitions through their children. In the rat race for a myopic academic excellence, children and their dreams are crushed each day on the very portals of the school they have entered to become masters of their destiny. Everyone wants a class topper – an outstanding academic performer. Sadly, most fail to realise that there are other infinite possibilities for the child to blossom into. The cut-throat competition is killing the dreams of children in modern India. Schools have become mere factories producing mechanical, one-dimensional zombies rather than creative people. Parents have stopped thinking beyond their children becoming an engineer or a doctor. Anything else is considered a failure.

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