Taare Zameen Par(2007) (Hindi)

This movie had all the ingredients of being a classic, yet it is not. Immature direction, sloppy editing and bit of concern towards the commercial success in Indian markets barred it from a classic evergreen status.

The movie is about a kid affected with dyslexia. The kid acts so naturally that sometimes one feels if he actually suffers from it....He had a vivid imagination which his peers could never notice..the failure in acads was much more disparaging to them....The film does bring in a point against the rat race-every parent wants toppers in their house...that there cannot be 100 toppers in the same class is of no concern to them....Winning is not all, and all do not have to win the same game.....

Despite a brilliant first half, the film slacks in the 2nd where it becomes more like a conventional Bollywood film with song and dance....The parents of the kid are happy only after he won the painting competition....this contradicted the point the film was apparently tryin to make!!!!! Maybe I am wrong about its notion, but still I hope many of you will agree that the film does return to a more Bollywoodish note in the 2nd half...

there are plenty of flaws in the movie...a 8 yr old kid walks slowly out of the school, the doors are kept open as if only for him!!!!! he walks out aimlessly, how he returns is left for the audience to guess......and then he tells his bro that he had climbed the walls!!!!!! Nikumbh comes in as a arts teacher and sings and dances on benches(I would accept that in a SRK film, but why spoil this good film)... Nikumbh(Amir Khan) tells a bunch of class 3 guys the story of Einstein's relativity, Picasso's Cubism and what not and the children seem to understand everything....wot a bunch of advanced lads!!!!!To talk about its flaws I would bore you....

After all this I recommend every1 to watch this movie....with fewer songs and a better ending and cohesion in the story this was a sure Oscar winner..The kid's acting is brilliant..And all other characters seem realistic...the mind of a dyslexia kid has been very well captured..the lyrics of the scores are haunting.....its a very impressive debut....watch it and you will understand that Bollywood is slowly coming out of its shell..

Overall 7.5/10
Acting 8/10