Last Sunday i went to watch the Hindi movie Taare Zamen Par (Hindi: तारे जमीन पर) featuring Aamir Khan in lead role. The story narrates about the difficulties faced by a eight year old Dyslexic child Ishaan(Darsheel Safary) in learning day to day subjects and his sufferings at the hands of teachers and parents. But the kid's exceptional artistic talent was identified and recognized by his art teacher(Aamir khan - who himself was a Dyslexic) brings out change in the boy by his unique style of teaching.
Aamir khan is acting the role of a temporary art teacher Nikumbh, who takes up the responsibility to develop and improve the kid's reading and writing abilities. Nikumbh uses unique and scientific method of teaching to make the kid learn easily and understand the fundamentals. This bring remarkable improvement of the kids progress in studies. And finally Nikumbh organizes an art fair for staff and students of the school. Ishaan's painting, which was creative and artistically good was declared as the winning painting and was printed on the front cover of school's year book.
Aamir khan has to be credited to go away from traditional action or romantic based script to that of a different unusual script. The message conveyed by the story was the problems of the dyslexic kids and how the society views them. Aamir Khan, as a director and producer, handled the delicate theme well to portray to audience about the disability, and how the school teachers and management view it.
After watching the movie i came to know about a NGO in chennai called as Madras Dyslexia Association(MDA), whose volunteers train Dyslexic kids to overcome their disabilites by scientific methods.
The Madras Dyslexia Association can be at:
Madras Dyslexia Assoxiation
11, Sambasivam Street
T. Nagar, Chennai 600017
Phone: 011-91-44-8234908
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