One of the most talked about movies, one that I saw a month later than most...
It's a movie, that introduces a sensitive issue to all, one for which there is no awareness, that of dyslexia.
A simple story line, revolving around the life of a 9 year old boy, a character beautifully essayed by Darsheel, who has a learning disability that no one diagnoses. He's tormented and hurt by friends, school teachers and most of all by his own father. His mother and brother, try to support him, but without knowledge of his problem, they too are unable to understand him. Shunned into a boarding school, where he faces the same opprobrium, he is lost, unhappy and terribly hurt, when he meets his temporary art teacher, played by aamir khan, who diagnoses his problem and strives to help him.
Through creative methods, songs, and most importantly by allowing him to express himself through his wonderful drawings, darshan soon transforms into a boy who's comfortable with himself. Knowing what he has, and understanding how to overcome his problems, he finds a new joy in pursuing his love of painting, and this converts him to being a happy, and comfortable child.
Beautiful paintings, some soulful songs, and awesome performance are the highlights of the movie. As correctly pointed out by a couple of my friends, it would have been better, had the movie shown more about the transformation and the results, rather than sole-heartedly focussing on the problems and the ill-treatment.
But all in all, a movie that you should see, for those who connect to the situation in some way or the other, it's really the sort of thing that brings you to terms with certain issues, and helps you to understand wholly it's implications.
If you're lost, I'm talking about the education system, and the fallacy in believing that academic excellence is the only measure of success. This basic thought that is so ingrained in the minds of our parents, our teachers permeates in a filtered manner to the students, making them believe that if they're not good at academics then they are not fit to survive in the world. Having such a negative approach to education and growth, it is really right to say that all the genuises and all the people who've succeeded, have done so in spite of the system, not because of.
I hope that you shall see this movie, not for anything else, but for the fact that it will make you sit up and think.
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