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Taare Zameen Par (2007)
A tale of an Artist.
Starring: Darsheel Safary, Amir Khan.
Screenplay by: Amol Gupte.
Directed by: Amir Khan.
A drop of a red paint falls on a canvas. Then a finger comes and adds some yellow color to that drop. The drop shows some light turbulent mixing of smaller pigments of yellow and red, then that same finger starts mixing those colors. Then appears a creation of color on canvas as seen by Ishaan (Darsheel Safary), an 8-year old kid who just destroyed his graded exam solution of non-art subjects. Well, because he failed in those. There is something that drives Ishaan away from the books and exams to painting, to catching fishes in the gutter, to jigsaw puzzles, to almost anything that catches his eyes. He mentions his teacher that the letters in the book are dancing. That would make him dyslexic. But not dumb. Perhaps his vision is different than an average human being. When he has been send to a boarding school hundreds of miles away from his home then it appears as a child departing from his parents in his flip book. Can we help Ishaan? Perhaps professor Nikumbh has the answer. You have to watch Taare Zameen Par, to know what that answer is.
Amol Gupte wrote the screenplay for this beautiful and powerful film. He also was a creative director and I guess that is the basic need of this film. The number one thing expected from any filmmaker is to create sympathy for his protagonist. May it be emotional, but definitely has to be psychological. Amol Gupte puts you right where you are able to observe through Ishaan’s eyes at a kid sitting on his father’s shoulder and slurping a shaved ice cone. So much indulgence that it makes you unaware of the cone in your ‘own’ hand that melts and falls. There are so many sequences like those and Amir Khan (also the debutant Director) understands the conveyance need of those visuals as much as Amol Gupte and creates an impact. Slow motion gives us time to understand Ishaan’s fast grasping. The connection of images, surreal, if I may, of the solar system to the math problem in Ishaan’s exams is simply brilliant. How Ishaan thinks and imagines and applies it to his real world creates sympathy. Not to forget the confrontation by professor Nikhumb to Ishaan’s parents is one of the scenes with convincing words. Perhaps convincing for any parent. There does exist get-beaten-first-followed-by-triumph-later-superhero psychology which works. Amol Gupte and Amir Khan both have done a great job.
But how much ever you write or direct a movie, it is useless without the actors who make you feel what they are feeling in all the situations in the movie. Darsheel Safary as Ishaan falls short at nothing. He is an actor that has not been bound by anything. He excites at fishes in the gutter, he fights a bully twice his size, he feels guilty and apologises to his father at first and gets angry with strained eyebrows later at revelation of father’s lie. He cries with the sorrows that you will feel and laughs with joys that shake you. Sight of a dawn over mountains and a lake creates an image in his mind that later shows up on a canvas that screams his urge to see what people don’t see and you will stand beside him all the way. He deserves all the accolades he stands nominated for.
Amir Khan has chosen a unique tale of parent-kids relationship, that is sad, because that relationship has been ignored long enough to make a movie but at least now we have a movie. Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy give music to songs written by Prasoon Joshi that add to the surreal environment of this child. This movie is a great attempt to look at every child because he/she is special beyond our comprehension.
My Rating: 8/10.
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Good write-up Jateen!
Jateen you write is much more professionalism than all those critics who just know to find faults.
“The number one thing expected from any filmmaker is to create sympathy for his protagonist. ” — Jateen, guess u dont know, but if any film-maker manipulates the audience as u said, its called propaganda. Bad film-making !”
For an interesting review please click here }} http://passionforcinema.com/taare-zameen-par-a-tale-of-two-ditties/ Thanks !
^^have never seen such blatant self promotion before!
wtf was that playback??
this is the worst form of self promotion on a blog.
get a life….
@ KJ & @ Sachin
Oh Yeah ? Then whats the Medha & Zoombish Post all about ? And how about the AK promotion right at the top of the site ?
@playback
atleast they didn’t deride someone else’s pt. of view to bring ppl to their own posts.
“Jateen, guess u dont know….” what was that?
@ KJ
If you agree to the following I shall not take this discussion any further :
oKay !…maybe I fooled around a bit too much ! Am sorry !
Hi Jateen
You wrote very Nice, Simple and Tasty review,
I love it,
I watched the Movie,. You describe it very well,
I like the Length of your Review too, (Short one)
:)
Sachin, Suresh and Shekhar, thank you. You can check my other movie reviews at irisstrings.blogspot.com
Playback: With smpathy I mean viewer standing right in the shoes of the protagonist.
@playback. will post my take on your question in your post.
@jateen
absolutely loved ur take on tzp. keep posting
let me quote what Sudhir Misra has written in one of his blogs here “Saeed Mirza taught me, you can drown in the quicksand of detail and I keep this very close to me. You are not making a film about details. You are creating an ambience, colour, time, and within that you are telling a story which means something to you, now”…this is what cinema means to me & TZP fulfills that completely for me & has for many others..everything else(’reviews’)is crap.TZP has the potential to move the hardest & thats its achievement.
Simple to da point review..bt i tght it WAS A DROP OF WATER N THEN RED AND YELLOW paint added…nt “A drop of a red paint falls on a canvas.” :-?
Fantastic Movie though.
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Checkout my review of TZP @
http://supershiva.blogspot.com/2007/12/once-in-while-comes-movie-that-makes.html
Ysterday on New Year’s Eve i did myself a privledge by watching TZP wid my family…indeed a fine film…i wud like to share one thing, not bout the movie, but bout a Papa in the theatre…i was watching the movie in G7 at Bandra(one of the very few theatres whose late night shows are affordable)…there in front of me were sitting a Papa n his son…the papa instead of taking the message of the movie was doing the opposite…whenever a close up of the Test Paper was shown he used to ask his son the answers of the questions…the son was also around the age of “Ishant”…Eg:when the shot of the test paper which had 9*3 came he wud ask “wat is 9*3?” “bolo beta” “nahin aata”…the poor son was busy watching the movie…
God knows when these parents will understand