I can’t help envying ishaan… he is so lucky to be dyslexic… or am I abnormal to think of a feeling like envy when everybody else is shedding copious tears in sympathy of his abnormality… woe betide the heartless me…
How normal is a normal kid in the third standard… come on…
Teacher: class today we are going to study plants. Plants are the green things that you see on the roadside and parks… sometimes they look good with flowers and fruits then we call those places where these plants grow gardens… Can you name some plants…
Student 1: Rose plant
Teacher : very good
Student 2: Sunflower Plant
Teacher: mmm good
Student 3: tomato plant
Teacher: good good
Student 4: Brinjal plant
Teacher: mmm good
Student 5: white rose plant
Teacher: mmm ok, but somebody has already said a rose plant…
By this time there is a mad commotion in the class to name a different plant and show off and so by quite some time the class has exhausted almost all know plant names… and then there goes up an excited hand to name a plant that is not yet named…
Teacher: yes Anand…
Excited student: miss… steel plant…
Teacher: unh !!!
And with one casual sweep of her hand gesturing me to sit down, she killed one of the future, maybe the only, competition to mittal and the tatas… gone… nipped in the bud… (haha got that pun… I am a natural !!!)
Then by different episodes which I am too shy to expose here, my creativity was beaten out of me so that I could lead a normal life… occasionaly though it does try to surface, but then it is easily curbed due to the infinite yogic meditation techniques and tai-chi and feng shui I have been taught at school and also managed to research on the net…
No… I didn’t suffer from dyslexia… and I was a pretty good student academically too… that was until some other friends of mine decided to take over my responsibility and let me focus on er…other interests of greater consequence… so I definitely don’t envy ishaan for suffering from dyslexia and getting to act with aamir khan… and he actually shares the dubious dyslexion of his condition with aamir khan himself… (ok ok that word play didn’t look as good as the pun, but I am working on it…)
So why do I envy ishaan? At least he had a teacher who told him thinking of steel plants was ok and helped him to learn the difference.
Ishaan is lucky… the dreamy eyed kid that he is portrayed to be is the way that kids should be… let their creativity run wild… let their inquisitiveness be unhindered… and find more kids like ishaan act in such movies and make more such movies…
Yeah aamir khan’s directorial debut TZP is an awesome must watch movie. It got 4 stars in the TOI, but I am ready to give it millions of stars… it is impossible to quantify in terms of stars the intangible ROI from the movie… ok to cut the crap and put it in layman’s terms the individual performances are great… including the khadoos dad who seems to have no feeling for his son… and it would be an understatement to say that the kid and aamir khan have done justice to their roles… the whole performance is so natural that it is unnatural to believe that they are acting… even the crying scenes don’t make you cringe in emotionless boredom…
Of course the movie has its mistakes and some dumb scenes, which is probably the reason why the one star was penalized by the TOI critic… but the overall delivery more than makes up for the deficit… the way ishaan learns that he is abnormal and the way he is unable to understand that he is actually having a problem can’t be better portrayed… and there are so many subtle moments in the movie that help us appreciate the amount of perfection attempted…
And the best of all is the magic of the kids… the kids are made to behave in the most normal way even though they are extremely special ones acting in aamir khan’s special movie (at least the media says so)… unlike some movies where 8 year old kids are mature enough to arrange a wedding of their dad with his college best friend by just reading their mom’s letters, these kids are acting their age. Even the paintings done by ishaan despite his high IQ only portray his creativity, to which age has no significance and does not show him as a da Vinci or a Picasso… The songs are good too… especially the “tumhe sab hai pata hai na maa!!!” is so soulful, that ishaan’s silent acceptance is so perfectly balanced in it.
If I have to sum it up in one word – “too good”… ;)
7 comments:
need to go watch this one...
before hirok recommends it and spoils it for me ;)
and good tht u were a kid at that time...
i can well imagine u sayin "im-plant" if some teacher dare raise the question a few yrs after that incident...
having a learning disability myself i can say that if i ever find someone who has it i would congratulate him.if one gets past the cynical school years and maintains the creativity one can do wonders in life.
eg recently new york time carried news saying 1 out of 3 us enterprenuer is a dyslexic.
also so is ceo of cisco, Richard branson, tom cruise and list goes on
Dei... it seems that u tend to stick to some kind of genre in your postings... First it was whining about blr traffic and girls; now its about movie reviews huh? whatever it is, your articles made me want to watch both the movies :)
srk: the kid looks a lot like hirok... that shud be reason enuf for him to recommend the movie... ;)
im-plant??? is that a "information management" plant???
akshay: hi akshay... i have great admiration for richard branson, tom cruise... thanks for pointing out that they are dyslexic too... that only increases my admiration for them... well if we are too normal, then we are replacable - and only different people can do different things... uh... well i guess you get the point... :)
ram: yeah maams kinda happens when i am in the flow you know... ;)
more like 'image management'-plant ;)
and Salma Hayek is dyslexic too... now don't tell me THAT increases ur admiration for her...
and yes, the movie was 'too good'...
nothing can increase my admiration for salma hayek... it is already at its peak... and who cares if she is dyslexic...
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