Two phenomena – Pink Floyd and Aamir Khan: you just can’t get enough of them. I lately discovered a few tracks of Pink Floyd which seemed way too better than ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’. These guys simply know the game and they play it well too . Well, for older fans of Floyd, this might seem as trite, but nevertheless, ‘High Hopes’, ‘Coming back to Life’, ‘Wish you were here’ are no less than colossal works of art. When they play the music, they play with it like a toy (pun intended). The entire experience of a great song comes to them as naturally and obvious as a birth of a child. Okay, too much flowery here, but truly, these guys RULE!!
Aamir Khan is another personality who just keeps getting better with time just like an old scotch, unlike SRK who reminds me of my mess food, always the same, never refreshing and sucks till the last bite. Taare Zameen Par might have reminded many of us how we used to be as a child, but I got a different set of clue altogether. Well, I find this argument of connection of many people with Ehsaan to be quite incomprehensible. The kid was having dyslexia – inability to read & write. He wasn’t criticized because he was plain stupid or a dunce. To put very technically, it’s a movie about a kid coping with dyslexia in his normal school life, and battles it with the help of an overwhelmingly helpful teacher who discovers his problem and also helps him to excel in his rediscovered hobby – painting. How do we come to come close to it? A little introspection would make us realize that we definitely don’t fit in Ehsaan’s character in any way. Only dyslexics do; not everyone.
As a matter of fact, TZP is a solid, powerful work of fiction primarily because of its style of execution. Using Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy’s befitting music accompanied by apt lyrics by Prasoon Joshi, the movie brings this tale closer to countless fact based stories of umpteen kids who might have been neglected due to unavailability of such a co-operative teacher during their childhood. The movie addresses an age-old, yet not-so-talked-out problem (dyslexia) and provides a remedy to it too. Moreover, this age is crucial as they say that a child’s destiny is written in this tender age of 6-8 years. Well, many of us feel today, that our kids should be, what we couldn’t possibly become or always aspired to become as demonstrated by the kids’ parents. And the grooming starts at this age!! A bit of complacency or deferral here could result in an undesirably moulded ball of clay rather than a sculpted masterpiece. Atleast that’s what the notion is!!
That brings me back to the million dollar question. Did we (yes we, not I) lose out on anything in our innocently ignorant childhood or we quasi-achieved what we really wanted and are proud of the person we are currently? Well it’s a million dollar question, and I don’t intend to devalue it by answering either. So go ahead and live the most of present….and let some i-don’t-know-and-i-don’t-care-questions better left unanswered!!
DISCLAIMER: This was a desperate attempt to incite my grey cells, which were in hibernation from a long time. Any section in this post you find utterly boring is highly regretted. Please do not refrain yourself from visiting my blog again, under aforementioned circumstance, since such behaviour will be deemed as extremely erratic and plain prejudice.
