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Director: Aamir Khan
Music: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
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Stars in our Heart – TAARE ZAMEEN PAR
Outstanding! What you need to do is stop reading this review or any other review and head for the nearest theatre showing Taare Zameen Par that is if you have not already sobbed your way through the well meaning tale in a previous show.
You owe it to the makers who could have made their moolah in more “Welcome” ways, easier, nonsensical and ringing cash at the counters for a weekend entertainment starved crowd. But they chose not to and instead worked through a dedicated intense script which works out the idiosyncrasies of our success starved parental world which insists on living their dreams through their children.
It does not matter if the child is fully equipped for stardom in the most popular of stereotyping of careers that happens in our society – engineer or a doctor and in more recent decades a Management graduate. Taare Zameen Par does not sermonize on the freedom that the young populace requires. But it uses effectively the rat race theory as a platform to devolve the story of young dyslexics who can get lost in the race. Scary thought.
Aamir along with his writer Amole requires a standing applaud for so sensitivity ferreting out the issue for discussion without making a charade of a severe stereotyping of good parents teacher versus evil counterparts. There are deep shades of grey but within the framework of a realistic and understanding society. Aamir fetches your attention through a spell bounding act by a young Darsheel Safary.
The film trade has always lived by the theory of superstars ensuring a trade pull in super stars irrespective of the story. And that theory stands shattered as a young Darsheel keeps you riveted away from your popcorns and cell phones and song walkouts right from the the beginning credits, which incidentally should be one of the most colorful and appropriate for the subject, in recent times.
The young 8 year discarded as a society reject in the competitive world by his glory seeking parents is resurrected from a depression abyss by a stand in art teacher. Whether the boy lives unto the promise created by his empathizer and make a difference in the world of opinions in the standard operating framework of pathetic society that we live in forms the balance of the tale till an ending drawing competition.
The climax is likely to be dismissed by many as a jarring reversal to clichéd Hindi cinema but I think any tale finds its dramatic victory of theme by resorting to a story telling format where the moral serves to be colored only in Black and White. AT least Aamir does justice by lounging only in the grey and keeping away from the polarities of human behavior. The dramatic end is then completely justified to make a strong valid and lasting point.
While the film slackens in pace now and then making you want to reach out to any cluckers in the neighboring seat and asking them to have patience, it is one of the most colorful odes to social justice, after Swades, that I have seen in recent times.
The controversies over the the copyright cease to be a minor issue when you realize that no other director could have done better justice to a wonderful tale than the current talent mix. Nothing to be grudged there.
The film packs in one of the most colorful vignettes throughout. It’s like giving life to our dreams. Aamir makes a strong contender for another one of those nominations from India for the Oscars unless of course another of those powerful Masala Mixes are given the go ahead for reasons other than what should be theoretically so.
The most telling was heard at the end of our show when an 8 year old piped up to her dad “Dadda , now you know why you should not shout at me
I left the theatre chuckling at the perplexed look on Dadda's face.. I was to have a great weekend.
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