TAARE ZAMEEN PAR: 1st Day 1st Show
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11:54 am: Welcome is housefull. Taare is still selling.
12:04 pm: OK. Now we're in Galaxy, which is the heart of Bollywood in Mumbai. It boasts of a hardcore Hindi film audience. There are couples, lot of stags, teenagers with mums. The stalls are lined with people basically from the lower middle class homes who have come to watch the film because it's a holiday. Small kids are now beginning to trickle in with their mums. Interestingly, not many dads are around.
12:09 pm: Ten-year-olds Naved and Shahrukh have told their parents that they're going to a mall and have come to watch Taare Zameen Par because they wanted to watch it so badly!
12:10 pm: Whoa! A lot of kids have come in. Some NGO has got them here.
12:15 pm: Unlike multiplexes, places like these are levellers of sorts. You have people from all walks of life here. The NGO by the way is Aakanksha, a prominent Mumbai children’s organisation which has organised this as a Christmas treat.
12:16 pm: Jodha Akbar trailer is on and the kids are still settling down.
12:20 pm: No one seems interested in Jodha… Or Akbar. The film is about to start.
12:21 pm: And a round of applause with whistles follows :)
12:22 pm: The film opens with an animated crossword sequence. Kids are enjoying it.
12:26 pm: The title track of clay animation gets applause, and whistles again.
12:28 pm: It's fascinating. And the kids LOVE it. There is a very small kid sitting on her mother's lap. The expressions of the young mother and the little one are priceless. There is a twinkle in their eyes.
12:30 pm: The young mother is explaining parts of the movie to the kid.
12:33 pm: When Ishaan is aked about his exam results, which he has thrown at the dogs, kids love it… Something they must've wanted or must've done once at least.
12:34 pm: There is fight between Ishaan and a bully where he bites the bully and smashes the pots before his house. The kids are cheering.
12:37 pm: Ishaan is getting scolded and beaten by his dad. But his dad hits his mom by mistake. He laughs. The kids cannot stop giggling either. They simply love the part when he is in the shower pretending to fight the shower.
12:40 pm: Ishaan's father jokes that he's leaving the house because of him. Ishaan falls for it and is angry when he learns he's been tricked. The older couple next to me cannot help laughing at the boy's innocence.
12:42 pm: Aamir may have said it's not a children's film but it's the kids who are enjoying it the most.
12:43 pm: Assembly sequence where principal is lecturing but kids yawning and doing their own thing. An old man next to me lets out a laugh.
12:44 pm: The part where Ishaan is sent out of class, gets whistles.
12:45 pm: Interestingly, parts where the children in the movie are laughing are also parts which are evoking similar responses from the audience.
12:51 pm: There us a golawallah scene. Kids go SLURP!
12:59 pm: The old couple is remembering the times their kids did it too. The lady is telling her husband of some incident (which I’m not able to hear properly).
1:07 pm: This is where the serious part begins. The laughter in the auditorium has stopped. It's when the principal tells Ishaan's dad that he may have a problem.
1:08 pm: There is a group of college kids, which is not exactly enjoying it. Some have stepped out to buy food. One can hear the creaking seats and people getting up.
1:11 pm: Ishaan is being sent to the boarding. The young mother is trying to explain the meaning of boarding school to her daughter who says she does not want to go there.
1:13 pm: The kid next to me is singing Bum Bum Bhole, a song which is at least half an hour away.
1:15 pm: Now the sobbing part begins and you can hear sniffles around. Ishaan is dropped off at the boarding.
1:25 pm: Now even though Ishaan's classmates are laughing at him, the little ones in the audience are not enjoying it as if they know it's not nice to laugh at him now.
1:29 pm: The older children are not exactly enjoying the movie now. You can see someone stretching, hear someone yawning… Some chitter chatter.
1:30 pm: But a mother sitting nearby is wiping her eyes.
1:36 pm: Enter Aamir. And guess what? No one is laughing when they're seemingly supposed to. Possibly the suddenness of his entry in the joker’s suit is too much to handle and the impact is lost.1:37 pm: And then it's INTERVAL!
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The 2008 oscar award wining film.
Dear reviewer,
don't give your review just because you want to.Tzp is a
brilliant one,and do accept it.If not accepting,atleast
don't crtitizise the movie...You cannot give me what tzp
have given me.I have seen me in the movie...
Tzp is an excellent movie with outstanding direction.Fulll
marks to aamir who have the required courage to make &
direct such extraordinary films. Tzp is a soft story about a
parent- child relationship & how they should avoid child
getting into rat race, instead understnad interests and
encourage him.
no bhansali's , johars & chopras can even think of it.
hats off to aamir....
I have already seen tzp. It is an excellent movie. An
entirely different story of a child. All around the world,
we see competition and somewhere or the other, this is also
being put on kids at such a small stage and parents are
forcing their interest on kids. Hats off to aamir, who has
brought forward this theme that parents should try to
understand kids interest and the problems not the symptoms.
Tzp is a milestone which portrays the relationship in not
just one form but which has many dimensions- a mom's
relationship with her child, a father's relationship, a
teacher cum mentor's relationship and buddies... Tzp
questions the contemporary world especially in a country
like india, where parents want only doctors and engineers
(and to make them code for the so called first world!!) than
focussing on their children's abilities and potentials.
a must watch for all the parents and teachers.. Hats off
to entire crew of tzp for such a beautiful and meaninglful
cinema..
From the look of the promo's of tzp it appeared as its
for the kids stuff. But going through the blog posted by
people already have seen tzp, i m ready to go for this one
and cancelled tickets to welcome.
thanks guys.
sanjay lohia (41)
Yet to b seen. May b tomorrow.
Well what do we need to make a masterpiece,is it beautiful
sets,sexy actress,big promotion ads...If we think so ..Then
think again here is a movie which does not have any such
ingredients but still stands apart from the rest usual
bollywood stuff.What it contains is a commitment towards the
movie of the actors,aamir and his co-stars hav acted from
their heart.I dont watch much bollywood stuff dont
appreciate them at all.But i cannot stop myself watching tzp
again and again.I must say aamir has done justice to this
movie with his direction and acting,hats off to aamir and
all the crew of tzp for making a splendid work....Aftr all
its proved tht a good actor dosent need a six pack to be
sucessfull rather cutting edge acting skills...Give it a
10/10
Just bcoz network 18 has a stake in the movie, it gives u no
authority to write such rubbish. For every person who has
enjoyed the movie, there may be someone who has not enjoyed
it. I have not yet seen the movie, so have nothing
against it. If it is good, i will join in saying you. But
what you are doing here is cheap and disgusting.. Shame on
you...
Everybody should watch tzp , rather than watching masala
movie like welcome, those kind of of movies are releasingc
every month,