man , nice movie. after watching this, i remembered by teachers in school (i am 28 now). I just want to go and slap each one of them. my maths teacher (ms wani); my physcics teacher(ms jayanti) my hindi teacher (mr mirajkar); my sanskrit teacher (ms jyothi)... if you guys ever come in front of me, i am going to hit you hard. that time i was young and took BS from you, but now i am capable and you are old..hahaha. raja sen, you are dumb
Raja Sen is definitley out of his mind when he says the movie has a dissapointing end. Everyone I have met, including the critics have approved of the ending and found it therapeutic as well as impactful. In fact, TZP has one of the best climaxes I have ever seen. Thank God Raja Sen did not make the movie or it would have been his end.
RE:The Ending is Superb!
by Julius Augustine on Jan 22, 2008 09:19 AM
I think Raja Sen has a point about the ending. The ending shows Ishant winning and also his grades getting better. In reality it takes a lot of effort and patience and at times there may be no winning at all. The message is to accept your children as they are and not measure their life with only success
RE:The Ending is Superb!
by ameet acharya on Jan 22, 2008 12:37 PM
I am aggery with you but every moivie climax always tell the message to the people and every one will be aggery with for the best end of movie.
I usually really like your reviews but this time you disappointed me. It seems to me that other members saying you are Srk biased are right!. I am sorry but ...this movie is a masterpiece a REAL masterpiece. Okay..lets say you gave it 3,but can you tell me on what basis you gave it a 3? I mean I seriously couldnt find any flaw in the film,as for you talking about the " parental angle" amir clearly shows in his film that the parents are unaware of their child suffering from dyslexia, and ONLY because Amir goes and talks to them,do they get to even 'think' about it... and besides the story doesnt centre around the parents,its about the child suffering from a disability and how he tackles it once someone recognizes it..Its the journey of how a boy suffers because of ignorance in the world. So... he basically coveys a MESSAGE. I love Shahrukh Khan,infact i love him more than amir and im completely mad about him..but..he made a shitty film called OSO..which was all hype and no substance. just a song star cast of 31 stars,a few funny scenes here and there,nice songs,70z theme, miss padukone to woo you and SRK which in itself attracts audiences and there you go thats THAT. This movie handles the sensitivites of such subjects so well. and above all Darsheel safary deserves an AWARD!!! what a natural he is..im sure he is the same in real life..and amir well,no praise is worth of him because his ability,talent,skills and effort is inexplicable in mere words.This movies in my opinon des
RE:Dear Raja Sen..
by sai krishna on Jan 22, 2008 02:33 PM
Don't compare Amir with Shahrukh. Aamir is just outstanding whatever he do. Look at his pictures, Lagaan, Sarfarosh, Ghulam he is simply outstanding.
I am a great fan of Sharukh both are totally different. The imagination and convinciveness Aamir got was never paralled. We are very lucky to have a man like Aamir Khan in our Bollywood. Go bless him.
RE:Dear Raja Sen..
by denis d on Feb 18, 2008 04:13 AM
I agree with u Zainee..... This is one masterpiece.... Raja Sen seems to have gone completely off his senses.... Mr Raja, u urgently need to visit a mental asylum to get ur brains back in place
Aamir has done a fantastic job. He lets the boy(absolutely brilliant!) be the center of the movie and doesnt needlessly hog the limelight himself(plz learn SRK!).
Very few movies(& i mean VERY) manage to convey the directors vision and connect with the audience without using dialogues, and TZP does this stupendously in many scenes where, only by darsheel's silence and emotions does your heart reach out to him... yet, where nikumbh is frustrated and vents out at the parent and teachers in the society, it isnt too preachy..
This is a geniuine and wonderfully made movie for everyone to see, everyone.. AND DEFINETELY BETTER THE $H!!TY STUFF LIKE 'OSO','PARTNER', ETC
May we have more of directors like Aamir, Rajat kapoor, Anurag Kashyap and their kind, who make cinema purely for storytelling purposes, not like some of the biggies(SLB, Farah Khan, Gay Johar) who sell themselves in all available media and then cash in the hype in the first 2 weeks and declare their movie a hit(only as per revenue generated)
Taare Zameen Par smashes box office, nets Rs.770 mn
Mumbai: Actor-turned-director Amir Khan's directorial debut Taare Zameen Par a moving tale of a boy with learning disability has set the box office tills ringing. It has netted Rs.770 million in its fourth week.
The movie, running neck-on-neck with last year's superhit "Om Shanti Om" in terms of business, may even surpass the blockbuster featuring Shah Rukh Khan if it continues to sweep the box-office for a few more weeks.
Though the collections had slightly dropped in the third week of its release to hover around 60 per cent, it picked up again this week. More than the media hype, it is the favourable word-of-mouth publicity that actually boosted its box-office performance.
In Mumbai, collections registered 58 per cent last week. But after the Maharashtra government exempted the movie from entertainment tax (60 per cent of the total ticket price), collections have climbed to 62 per cent this week.
No Bollywood movie in recent memory pulled at the heartstrings of the audience - masses and celebrities alike - as "Taare Zameen Par".
Aamir Khan has scored over his colleague Shah Rukh Khan in content. While Shah Rukh Khan's OSO was charismatic and boasted of fresh-faced Deepika Padukone to capture the audience's imagination, Aamir touched hearts with the simplicity of the plot and sincere presentation.
Though a number of movies had been made earlier in Bollywood about physically or mentally challenged children, none came
TZP clearly makes us parents think twice about how we look at our child. While the movie brought most of the adults (including my wife and me) to tears, my 8 year old son just loved the movie. He completely related to the kid with all his mood swings. My son is not dyslexic, but yet shows all the imagination and creativity shown in the movie complete with lack of attention to serious study and more on Calvinish activities like flying space ships and mimicking spiderman and batman. It also shows the dread that children have for boarding school, which I keep threatening my son with in case he does not 'behave'. The movie showed a lot of us and also our parents and we as a child. The movie is at times exaggerated (the knuckle beating is unnecessary and insensitive teachers a bit too much), but definitely makes us think about our relationship with our child and vice-versa. I walked out of the movie with a wiser mind despite the fact that I am a parent who encourages my son to have creative expression and believe that that's the reason why he gets good grades. The movie did that one extra bit in my life to look at my son from his eyes rather than from my eyes only.
i have been posting my review on this board and always get angry reactions. Dont get why is it required for people to abuse at someone's opinion. there is no requirement to like a movie bcoz u like it..
and btw i wasnt posting it was a bad movie..
aamir said he dint like memento(the english original, he is remaking from tamil ghajni).
im sure there are lots of u who loved memento, so are u all gonna abuse him too? or is ur love for aamir gonna get the better of u..
and for the record, i thought tzp was a good movie for a first time director and nothing more.
RE:why is it a problem to accept opinions
by Look2me Pan on Jan 14, 2008 12:08 PM
And thus "Keerikadan" emerges again and so am I..
Sir, feel there is difference between posting and forcing the opinions. And when somebody wants to put an opinion every second day is to enforce the opinion which is strange. If you made your opinion and some made their opinion to your opinion, based on their opinion abt the movie, then leave it. From my side I never replied to any opinions on the first or second time, but your opinion seemed repetitive every second day and felt strange. Over to you for ur abuse or opinion. Thanks.
RE:why is it a problem to accept opinions
by K on Jan 13, 2008 04:59 AM
True! I appreciate your thinking! Well, you dont have to take people at heart! They haven't got message, anyways! People will forget all that's said about the movie within months! If any film has 'criticism is important for growth' as its central theme, they will praise you for expressing your opinions. We have never been good at thinking a different thought, have we?
We went to this moview with our 6-year old son. My wife and I looked forward to a nice movie, and indeed it was progressing well. However, that's not what my 6-year old thought. Just like Raja Sen mentioned in his review, some of the humiliation, punishments to the child were shown on screen repeatedly and these quite scary to my son, and he started crying and wanted to go home. Since we lived close to the theatre, I went out and left hime home. That was the only time I felt maybe he Aamir could have handled that part a bit more subtly. But we loved the movie, (my wife was weeping at the end) and as parents it helped us to get a new perspective.
RE:Nice, moving, well-made, but maybe not for very young children
by raj on Jan 14, 2008 06:34 AM
TZP is not a Movie for kid's it is a kid's psychology movie for Parents and Teachers. Humiliation, punishments shown in the movie is not the 5% of what teachers do in the Indian schools. Amir Khan has shown the realty of our schools. Teachers give electric shocks, locked kids in dark store room for whole day, take out the cloths of kids in front of other students.
