Stars on the Earth

Actor, Producer and now Director.... Aamir Khan prooved that he can be a great director as well. I had always admired his acting in movies, he choses the script so well that almost all of his movies are different and hit. And now as a director he has still gone ahead with a beautiful script. Hats off to him for this wonderful movie - Taare Zameen Par. This is definitely a director's movie and great that he chose this subject instead of some commercial aspect.

Coming to the movie, its the story about a Ishaant (8 yrs old) who has a unique problem called Dyslexia. Though his parents take care of him so much they dont actually understand his problem and put him into a boarding school. First half of the movie is fully about Ishaant and his activities. Its only then 2nd part that Aamir khan comes into the picture as an Art Teacher. He finds the problem in Ishaant and not only explains that to his parents but helps Ishaant to come out of it.

There are couple of very good scenes. One of the scene, when Aamir khan explains the class about Dyslexia he actually starts describing about the characters of such person and we get a hint that he is talking about the boy. But he gives example of famous persons like Einstein. It doesnt stop there, he again says that there is one more person with such problem in the class and that again reminds of Ishaant but finally after the class he explains to Ishaant it was him who also had this problem. The best part I liked in the movie was during the painting competition when ishaant shows his beautiful painting to Aamir and then goes around to see what his art teacher as painted, the camera takes a turn and then we see that awesome painting of Ishaant's face (the same one below).

The boy who has acted as Ishaant has done a marvellous job. Though Aamir khan selected his part of role as limited he did it so well. On the whole he has got the credits for direction. Altogether it was a very good movie ...

Evano Oruvan

One of the movie that I liked the most in the recent ones. Though the movie is bit like a documentary it shows the practical situation in the current world.

Its about a normal person Sridhar Vasudevan (who works as a Bank Officer has a small family with wife and 2 kids). He has his routine life and his own principles of doing things right. But he gets affected by the society and people when they bribe to get things done, when they dont follow rules, when schools ask for donations. Reaching the frustration level with a shopkeeper for selling things at a higher price (Rs 2 more) than others, smashes his shop, destroyes the place. With that same frustration hits the Water supplier guy when he refuses to leave water without extra money and stabs a minister for he redirecting the water to build a swimming pool, breaks a bike that was parked in a no entry section. He tries to solve things on his own but not realising that he has to give his own life.

The story is similar to that of Anniyan, only difference being the Commercial vs Documentary aspect. Madhavan has done is role perfectly fine and touches our heart in the last. Sangeetha has also done her role of middle class house wife perfectly. Director has done an excellent job but the movie may not be a commercial hit.

A Very touching realistic movie and impressed me a lot.

Yaadein - 11 years back

From the title itself you should have got the hint that this is a school and it was 11 years back. Yes this is the class where we guys did our 12th std.

Every year on the republic day we have a Alumni meeting at school. And it was this 26th Jan that we guys made it. Ofcourse karthik, I and Rajsekar used to be a regular alumni. Anees and KArthikeyan made it this time while Raj missed it out. Another special thing about this meeting is, that it is the first time after marriage that we are visiting our school. Karthik and Karthekeyan are still bachelors.