Actors – Darsheel Safary as Ishaan Awasthi, Aamir Khan as Ram Shankar Nikumbh, Vipin Sharma as Mr. Awasthi, Tisca Chopra as Maya Awasthi
Tagline – Every child is special
Taare Zameen Par is a brave attempt of understanding the innocent sentiments and imaginary world of God’s most precious gift called children. Taare Zameen Par was India’s official entry for 81st Academy Awards for the Best Foreign Film category. It presents the ever demanding academic excellence and insensitive modern day parents. Aamir Khan has been successfully delivering good products all through his career as an actor. This is a maiden attempt as director and he sucessfully connects to every surviving soul which he always does to his penultimate best. The movie is a masterpiece that proudly makes its way into a immensely moving and heart touching experience of a lifetime...
Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders like colors, fish, dogs and kites that no one seems to care about. His parents are much more interested in things like homework, marks and competitiveness. Ishaan fails in exams, bunks classes, and skips homework resulting to nothing happening right in his class. When he gets into far more trouble than his parents can handle, he is packed off to a boarding school to be studious and disciplined. Things are no different at his new school, and Ishaan has to tackle with the added trauma of separation from his family. But one day a new art teacher bursts onto the scene, Ram Shankar Nikumbh, who fills the environment of the students with joy and optimism. He breaks all the rules and asks them to think, dream and imagine, and all the children respond with enthusiasm, all except Ishaan. Nikumbh soon realizes that Ishaan is very unhappy, and he sets out to discover the sole reason behind his misery. He comes to know that Ishaan suffers from a disease named dyslexia. With time, patience and care, he ultimately helps Ishaan find himself and extravagantly generates a winner who outshines the ones who neglected him as a loser all throughout.
Darsheel Safary is considered to be the best child actor ever witnessed in Bollywood history for giving such a commendable and stand out performance. The way he cries and emotes in several intensifying moments in the movie brings your heart out for this talented actor. Darsheel as Ishaan Awasthi carries the whole movie on his shoulder till he leaves you spell bounded and moist eyed with his extraordinary performance. A performance which is impeccable and astounding, that moves you and reflects your growing years, working as a rock solid moral booster. It’s an honest display of supreme simplicity and innocence by a talented child actor. Script writer Amole Gupte deserves all the rewards and accolades for gifting such a deep rooted masterpiece. Tisca Chopra and Vipin Sharma as Ishaan’s parents are outstanding. Taney Chheda as Ishaan’s friend shines in a small one.
Taare Zameen Par marks the birth of a magnificent and a gifted storyteller AKA the perfectionist AKA Aamir Khan. This time he excels in both departments as an actor and a prolific director. Aamir Khan as Ram Shankar Nikumbh proves that he is man of great intensity and endless depth. Some intense emotional scenes like Aamir’s interaction with Ishaan’s parents at their home, example of the Solomon Islands to Ishaan’s father leaves us awestruck. The screenplay of the movie is wonderfully written. The emotions in his face when the handicapped children perform in the Tulip School while the title track goes on is ecstatic. At the end of the day you are left confused for which one is the best, Aamir as an actor or Aamir as a director. He takes a courageous and sincere attempt of placing the story on Darsheel's shoulders on the first hour which is a strict no no for our publicity starved actors in Bollywood. The movie picks pace in the second half as he enters in the scene.
Some heart touching and moist eyed moments:
Ishaan missing his mother cries helplessly and wipes his tears convincing himself in the hostel bathroom.
Ishaan peeping into Nikumbh Sir’s drawing and then the classic astonishment in both Ishaan’s and Nikumbh’s expressions.
Ishaan running and hugging Nikumbh Sir after winning the 1st prize in the drawing competition.
Nikumbh observes a child working as a waiter in a restaurant, he calls him and lends him tea and biscuit to eat.
Ishaan creating a prototype of a motorboat out of scraps.
Ishaan running to Nikumbh Sir at the climax.
Shankar Ehsaan Loy’s combination strikes the perfect chord this time. Songs like Maa, Kholo Kholo and Title Track enters everyone's soul and delivers the required clinching effect. The music touches your heart and captures the emotions of a lonely Ishaan exceptionally. Adding to it is the lyrics by Prasoon Joshi which marvelously portrays the lovable smiles of the children and their adorable childhood. The song ‘Maa’ gives you the warm comfort of your mother’s lap and expresses the desperation of an innocent soul left alone in this mean world.
This movie has raised the bar and set the milestone in Bollywood Cinema for years to come. The movie will continue to rule hearts for the message it delivers before all. The movie has certainly developed a deep sense of sympathy and condolence for children who wish to touch the sky but are cursed throughout their life for unable to meet their parents academic expectations or being physically handicapped. Every child comes to this world with a gifted talent and parents must help their children to cultivate and nurture the talent rather than blindly forcing to follow the path that parents choose and compel them to move forward in this rat race.
Taare Zameen Par is intense, emotionally engaging and an inspirational eye opener for all the parents, that changes the way you look at your kids, that changes the way you love your kids and changes your compassion for kids. It’s a film full of substance and sterling performances. Even the hardest heart will be forced to shed drops of tear. Missing it, neglecting it as a children movie or inventing flaws in it, consider it nothing more than a sacrilege or a sin.
Hats Off to the actor and the vision of the director who has created this masterpiece, an epic tale of innocence, love & affection, the one, the only, Aamir Khan.
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