Movie Review: Taare Zameen Par

Aamir Khan’s directorial debut has had much written about it. I put off watching it for quite a while having heard it was a “sad” movie and i didn’t much feel in the mood for a cry.

I did get around to watching it and i can truly saying it deserves all the laurels heaped upon it and its young star, Darsheel Safry. The little boy made me feel for the young child struggling with a learning disability and a society and parents who are too overly concerned with being the best to consider the best for the child might not be the most economically sound options.

This movie at the heart of it addresses differences and uses in its narrrative the example of a learning disability. The inherent inability of people to accept the differences of our fellow man be it in the form of colour, creed, sexual orientation, religious beliefs etc is at the crux of many of life’s avoidable problems. The need we have to force a square peg into a circle just because we are circles and are uncomfortable with expanding our boundaries makes us the ones with the problem and not the so-called different folk.

I sincerely hope this will be a movie that stays with people and the next time we judge someone harshly for being different we stop, pause and think about the so-called problem and quesiton if there really is one.