I have just finished this awesome movie and i must say it's a truly fantabolous movie. I can't remember when was the last time i ever cried watching a movie. I cried buckets watching this movie..not only in the ending but throughout the movie. TZ is a must watch movie for teachers as well as parents.
As a teacher to be i do know about the existence of dyslexic kids and we were taught on how to handle and educate such kids. But printed papers and theories never show the emotional turmoil of the kids and their parents. Similarly, i have never realised how depressing it would be for the dyslexic kids to be not able to write and read like any other children and at the same time handle the disgusting remarks and ridicules slammed on them. The public humiliation is nothing compared to the disparaging remarks that they receive from their family. In this movie, the boy is seen as a lazy duffer by his own parents and all they can think to help the poor kid is sending him to a boarding school. And life becomes hell for him in the boarding school till one wonderful teacher (Aamir khan) walks in like an angel in the kid's life. Once a dyslexic kid himself, Aamir understands the kid's problem and helps him out.
As Aamir points out in the movie, nowadays parents' aspiration on their children is for them to compete and succeed in the academic realm. Nobody bothers about the kids' world anymore. We invade children's world and impose our way of living: competitiveness, achievement, and accomplishment on them. We fail to understand that kids have their own world in which competing and getting 100% is nothing to be proud of. We are stealing the childhood away from them and pulling them into the adulthood so hastily that most of the children are deprived of their precious childhood. When i was a kid, i played in dirty mud, fishing tadpoles in drains, climbed trees, played cricket, hide and seek, flew kites, stole fruits and fell down and scratched my knees countless times. But my nieces and nephews are playing cybergames, play see-saw in playgrounds and going to nursery school when they are still babbling! Aren't we snatching their childhood away from them?
Anyways back to the movie, I think every teacher should watch this movie and derive some inspiration from Aamir. I don't know if Aamir is a great actor (but he is a good actor) but he is a great teacher in this movie. Now i can't wait to start teaching and make some differences :-)
6 comments:
Come to think of it, after two back-to-back hits [Rang De Basanti, Fanaa ], Aamir Khan could've given a positive nod to any masala flick and chosen to work with anyone he desired. But he preferred to make a film on a dyslexic kid, make him the focal point of the story and don three caps -- producer, actor and director. Its a film that makes us to peep into child's mind and how some parentsin their pursuit to make them 'stronger' academically, forget that there's hitherto untapped talent that needs to be nourished and encouraged.It has been treated with such sensitivity and maturity that you're left shell-shocked in amazement by the sheer impact it leaves at the end of this 18 reeler. One of the best movies to come out recent times (I liked next to JAB WE MET).. Gud review!!!
Yeah, i can't imagine any other actors attempting a movie which centralizes on a small kid with zero or little masala aspect.
Never imagine lik these films wit our masala heroes.. they'll change t screenplay as if he is the only teacher livin on the heart to save the kid and few kuthu songs for heroes putting the blame on child as if he wanted to see hero's dance!!!
lolz...our heroes will only accept movies with kuthu songs..
do u hav the cd? nak pinjam! hehe ;p
Sorry lysa i don't. I watched it online but no subtitle. If i get d link with subtitle i'll send to u k.
Post a Comment