A perfect 10.. Taare Zemeen Par

ISHAAN AWASTHI ... Grade III...FAIL ! FAIL ! FAIL !
That's how the movie starts.

Based on the initial songs and the trailers, we decided to brave it to PVR to check out the latest Aamir Khar movie "Taare Zameen Par". Well all seen and done, it's a Perfect 10.

Ishaan Awasthi is an eight year old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. He see's colors, fish, dogs and kites - dancing characters in his alphabets. The world of adults and peers are much more interested in things like homework, marks and neatness. And Ishaan just cannot seem to get anything right in class.

The world demands perfectness in class, high ranking in school.No repeatation of mistakes and so forth. But, Ishaan has a world of his own. He like to take a dip into the school gutter to pick up a few fishes (for his aquarium), bunk school to roam around the city (and later had his elder brother write an Absentee note) and those small knick-knacks of nature that a child takes pleasure in.

When he gets into far more trouble than his parents can handle,he is packed off to a boarding school to 'be disciplined'.Things are no different at his new school, and Ishaam has to contend with the added trauma of separation from his family.

One day a new art teacher bursts onto the scene, Ram Shankar Nikumbh, who infects the students with joy and optimism. He breaks all the rules of 'how things are done' by asking then to think, dream and Imagine... this bring out the creativity of the students, way outside the fixed thinking of the school curriculum.

All the children respond with enthusiasm, all except Ishaan. Nikumb soon realized that Ishaan is very unhappy, and he sets out to discovery why. With time, patience and care, he ultimately helps Ishaan find himself.

As perceived by today's rat race world, the movie shows rightly:

Kas ke joota, kas ke belt,
Khoons ke andar apni shirt,
Manzil kp challi sawaari
Kandho pe zimmedari

Haath mein file, man mein dum,
Meelon meel chalenge hum
Har mushkil se tarrayenke,
Tas se mus na honge hum

Duniya ka naara jame raho,
Manzil pe ishaara jame rajo

Ye soote bhee hain attention mein,
Aahe rehne ki hai tension,
Mehnat inko pyari hai,
Ekdum aagyakari hain

Ye omelet par hi jeeye hai,
Ye tonic saare peete hain,
Waqt me sote, waqy pe khaate,
Taan ke seena Badhte jate

Duniya ka naara jame raho,
Manzil pe ishaara jame rajo

Then again, in the eye's of Ishaan Awasthi, it is a completly different world.


Yahaan alag andaaz hai,
Jaise chidta joi saaz hai,
Har Kaam ko taala karte hai,
Ye sapne paala karte hai

Ye hardum socha karte hai,
Ye khud se poocha karte hain
Kyon duniya ka naara jame raho,
Kyon manzip ka ishaara jame raho

Ye waqt ke kabhi ghulam nahin,
Inhaon kisi baan ka dhyam nahin,
Titli se milne jaate hain,
Ye pedon se batiyate hai

Ye hawa batora karte hain,
Barish ki boodein padhte hai,
Aur aasmaan ke canvas pe,
Yeh kalakariyan karte hain

Kyon duniya ka naara jame raho,
Kyon manzip ka ishaara jame raho

The movies does provide a trigger to retrospect if the current approach of schooling to excel for "the" future is encouraging the innocent mind of a child to think or pushing it in a rigorous path of schooling to excel.

To end it all... The PVR trip was fultoo paisa wasool.
DARE to DREAM, and DREAM beyond the OBVIOUS... then EXECUTE the DREAM..
Cheers !