Daily Archive for January 3rd, 2008

This is the lead from an editorial praising the movie, “Taare Zameen Par.” The movie is generating multiple entries in my Google news searches.

Eagle’s Eye: Every child is special

Bollywood actor Aamir Khan’s directorial debut, Taare Zameen Par (TZP) focusing on the saga of a dyslexic child, possibly is one of the outstanding Hindi films produced in 2007.
Released 21 December worldwide, TZP vividly portrays the manner in which an eight-year-old boy, disinterested in studies, is humiliated and punished by all his teachers at school.

At his home, too, with utter disregard to the boy’s special talent for painting, his parents pack him off to a boarding school as a disciplinary measure. The boy faces virtually living hell and yet again fares badly in studies until an exceptional art teacher (played by Aamir) ‘discovers’ the hidden talents of the child.

Later in the editorial, the author trots out the usual list of famous individuals said to have had dyslexia and raises the currently pop ideas of Professor Julie Logan from the Cass Business School in London, which we’ve discussed before on LD Blog. Sigh.

Although I have serious problems with those lapses and the intellectually challenged idea expressed in the film and the editorial title (“every child is special”), I wonder what the movie’s like. Anyone seen it? I’d like to see it.

Links:
The original editorial ;
The earlier post about Professor Logan’s research;
The official Web site for the film.