I'm Emisha Ravani. Presenting here a film review for ' Taree Zameen Par'.
CAST OF FILM:
Producer: Aamir Khan
Director: Aamir Khan
Lead Cast: Aamir Khan as art teacher, Darsheel Safary as Ishaan Awasthi
Supporting Cast: Tanay Cheda as Rajan Damodaran(Ishaan’s friend), Sachet Engineeras Yohan Awasthi(Ishaan’s brother), Tisca Chopra as Maya Awasthi(Ishaan’s mother), Vipin Sharma as Nandkishore Awasthi(Ishaan’s father)
Story: Amole Gupte
Screenplay: Amole Gupte
Dialogues: Amole Gupte
Cinematography: Setu, Satyajit Pandey
Editor: Deepa Bhatia
Background Score: Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani, Loy Mendonca
Choreography: Saroj Khan, Shamak Davar
Music Director: Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani, Loy Mendonca
Lyrics: Prasoon Joshi
*Summary of the movie*
The movie is about eight year old child whose world is filled with wonders which noone can find and appreciate, that's Ishaan Awasthi. Basically he suffers from dyslexia. As during his early childhood, so the numerous complaints from teachers and neighbors forces his parents to enroll him into boarding school ' The New Era'.he feels more dejected, inferior and can't cope up.
Ram Shankar Nikumbh gets appointed as a temporary art teacher there. Unlike he follows inclusive norms instead of like other teachers used.
Ram takes effort to understand Ishaan and his problems. He makes Ishaan's parents and teachers realize that he isn't abnormal but a very special child with own talents. With time, patience and care Ram succeed in boosting the confidence level. The process of overcoming his Inabilities and re- discover his lost confidence.
*Target audience*
The movie mainly focusing on the audience - dyslexic's parents, guardians, teachers and as well as to common people too. Because dyslexic children are not able to face the harsh reality of our so called society's norms.
*Thame of the movie*
'Dyslexia' is the central theme of the movie. It raises awareness of the issue of dyslexia and promote more open discussions among parents, schools, activists and policymakers. The narration is wonderfully contains all children - learning is disability or not.
Dyslexia occurs in children with normal vision and intelligence. Symptoms seems like,
- difficulty reading, including reading aloud
- slow and labor intensive reading and writing
- problems spelling
- avoiding activities that involve reading
- Mispronouncing words or names
- problems for retrieving words
It is a neurological language processing disorder.
Every child has multiple intelligence (Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligence) that makes him/her different from others. Also, one major aspect, which came as a driving force, is that ‘it is not only IQ (Intelligent Quotient) that is paramount, EQ (Emotional Quotient) and SQ (Spiritual Quotient) are also equally important’. A child can be developed holistically if a teacher plays the role competently and efficiently. Empathizing with the child, encouraging the child with giving real life examples of famous personalities, idols and talking about their achievements will be beneficial, as this movie also portrayed.
Role of society & community:-
Treating people with disabilities as normally as possible.
People should not label the special children.
They should encourage their efforts & should not criticise their failures.
Society & community should not pressurize them for following their norms as they feel difficulties in making their spaces in the vast culture.
our country’s government needs more motivating movies to work in the field. People living in this society can only empathize with these children and accept them only after watching such movies. More such movies will enlighten and strengthen the need of ‘inclusion’ in this exclusive world!!!
*Better ways to deal with special child*
- the parents and teachers should be extremely supportive and encouraging.
- helping them to find their area of interest.
- listening to children's feelings. Anxiety, anger and depression are daily companions for dyslexics. Their language problems often make it difficult for them to express their feelings.
- parents and teachers must reward effort not just ' the product' . For the dyslexic, grades should be less important than progress.
- don't use such words while treating them like ' lazy' or ' incorrigible'. Because it can damage the child's self- image.
- as well as I would like to add role of friends or peers.
They can help to social competence, self- esteem emotional- intellectual development, so the special child can develop without hesitation and won't feel isolated.
*Better ways to deal with special child*
- the parents and teachers should be extremely supportive and encouraging.
- helping them to find their area of interest.
- listening to children's feelings. Anxiety, anger and depression are daily companions for dyslexics. Their language problems often make it difficult for them to express their feelings.
- parents and teachers must reward effort not just ' the product' . For the dyslexic, grades should be less important than progress.
- don't use such words while treating them like ' lazy' or ' incorrigible'. Because it can damage the child's self- image.
- as well as I would like to add role of friends or peers.
They can help to social competence, self- esteem emotional- intellectual development, so the special child can develop without hesitation and won't feel isolated.
Every child is as artist. The problem is how to remain as artist once we grow up.
Every child have a different way to think, every child is special and unique.
" A child is a gift of God, a blessing from above , a picture and innocence. "
As Rabindranath Tagore says, " Every child comes with a message that God is not yet discouraged of man."
" Every child is a star on earth, is special, who enriches and cleanses the soul, an empty canvas, waiting to be painted with love"