All said and done Taare Zameen Par is a sensitive film that leaves you with the patience to let your child grow and also the sensibility to allow your child to be different, writes Smriti Mudgal

Taare Zameen par

Taare Zameen Par made a point from casting only. Starring first and foremost Dasheel Safary and then Aamir Khan said a lot about the sensibility of Aamir Khan. You have tabloids talking about Khiladi actor getting insecure about whose name should appear first in casting of Welcome.

So, from the beginning the intention of the director and in this case the co-actor is also clear. “I am not trying to take centre-stage” says Aamir loudly who doesn’t step in the frame till one scene before interval.

Now, because the film is about a child, dyslexic or not, the pace of the film is leisurely which many may complain about but if you are willing to enter the mind of a child, imaginative, perceptive then you would have to allow the director to take these liberties.

There are scenes where by the use of some imagery Aamir the director tries to take you to Ishaan’s (Darsheel) wonderland where he’s so secure, so happy and whether you are as young as him or as old as Aamir, you’d appreciate that perspective.

How a child finds beauty in smallest things of life like a man drinking water by raising his glass above his mouth, a man sleeping on the cart, how a puddle can look like the most beautiful pond in sight is sheer bliss.

While watching the film, I almost felt guilty about trying to grow up so soon and felt pity for the children who cannot see any beauty in the world around them and therefore resort to vitural world in computer games.

However, there are weaknesses in the film and many. The casting apart from Darsheel and Tisca are slightly inapt.

Darsheel looks naughty, vulnerable, sensitive and intelligent in his own way and that too with elan. He’s not a precocious kid who give you smart-liners.

Tisca must thank her lord for giving her this film otherwise I am not sure if anyone remembers her for her ‘Platform’ debut.

The gentleman who played the father looked very feudal and that seemed slightly out of place. The elder son Yohan, yonger son Ishaan and the mother seemed like another family in front of him.

Aamir looked his character but his dialogues were very badly written. No one talks to a child in that contrived and complicated language. Also, it seemed that Aamir in trying to wear the director’s hat forgot to don his actor’s cap. Its almost as if in every frame he’s busy watching whether everything is going fine.

But in spite of these flaws because the director’s heart is in the right place he communicates without much effort what he wants to.

The film may be about children-parent and teacher relationship but my experience showed that parents emoted the most with the film. Teachers were shown in poor light and honestly I didn’t have much bad experience with teachers so I found it difficult to relate to such inhumane teachers.

But all in all, the film left me with a lot to think about and at the end of the film I had a headache because I got so tired of crying.

All said and done it’s a sensitive film that leaves you with the patience to let your child grow and also the sensibility to allow your child to be different.

(6 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)

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