Taare Zameen Par~
Every Child is Special..
This is one impressing and unique production of Aamir Khan's.. I'm not into TV these days but this simple story caught my attention and even touched my heart~
The story line is simple.. It was a story about a little boy, Ishaan who often drifts into his own world of imagination.. He views every single thing around him differently from other kids his age.. The adults, by contrast, failed to appreciate his specialty.
To the adults, Ishaan was a slow-learner.. He can't read, he can't write, he failed to recognize numbers and even can't button his own shirt.. He was then an outcast to his own family.. With a brother who performed excellently in academics and sports, to his father he was going no where but to failure..
He was sent to a boarding school to be 'disciplined'.. However, the teachers there had the same view of Ishaan and was about to give up and drop him out of school. Ishaan felt dejected and changed from a cheerful kid to a quiet and passive one..
Suddenly a new substitute teacher Nikumbh came to light.. He was an art teacher with his own unusual method of teaching.. Instead of going through pages of endless theories and countless memorization, Nikumbh taught his students to dream and use their imagination.. Nikumbh was surprised to see how poorly Ishaan respond to him when all the other students were enthusiastic.. Nikumbh finally discovered the awful truth of what Ishaan was going through.. The traumatic separation from his beloved family and also the demotivating negative perception of the adults around him.. This determined teacher set out to help Ishaan to find his own potential...Finally.. Ishaan manage to read and write.. He finally could organize himself.. And actually he has a gift for arts.. His drawing was surprisingly beautiful.. He even won a drawing competition and the drawing became the front page of the school's magazine...
My favourite scene would be when Nikumbh point out to his students the names of great achievers with problems during their childhood...
-Thomas Edison->> had problems during his early school years and even called by the name "addled" by his teacher.. He also had hearing problems due to middle ear infection
-Albert Einstein->> had speech problems during childhood..
-Sir Winston Churchill->> had problems with school too
These are the names that I can recall hehe there were many actually~hehe
Hurm.. The story reminds me of my own brother who's shadowed by his sister's achievements.. Everybody is pushing him day by day to study more and more to gain as many A's as his sister did or even better.. But we are two different individuals of different potentials~ I wish our parents can see that.. Because currently, as usual, how many A's on your report cards matters MOST..
Trying to be Nikumbh here myself.. I just hope I can be patient enough to give him my support and be the most understanding sister ever... I can be very scary when I get into my nerves..
Control temper~ control temper~ yeah improving a little bit hehe
