Stars upon the earth: Taare jameen par

Amir khan is known for acting in entertaning and thoughtful films. The latest best known film he acted in was "Taare jamin par".

It is indeed a sensitive portrayal of the life of a young boy who is suffering from a disorder which is little known in his mileue and and therefore he is more often misunderstood by his parents and teachers. Except his elder brother, who is still a child, nobody at home or at school or the society at large does understand him.The elder brother at the threshold of teenage is too young to articulate and convince his elders.

Significantly, the director have chosen the protagonist as a boy , a man in the making, who donot and would not admit his disabilities and hide his abilities- the paintings - and play pranks that attract only negative attentions from the society. Knowing full well that he is misunderstood he weaves around himself an image of an incorrigible, stubborn disobidient,rebellious boy who cannot permorm and he feels comfortable with the image and do not want to come out of it and expose his waeaknesses. His surroundings compel his parents to shift him to a boarding school, there too there is none to understand him or his problem. Then comes the messiah in the form of Amir Khan's character as the teacher who understands him and open the eyes of the parents, teachers and Society within the film and the audiance.

One cannot ignore the fact that Indian society in its rat race for material success where nothing succeeds like success are forgetting, or living in a fools paradise by remaining ignorant about those who lag behind. They are made simply laughing stocks without ever pondering about the reason behind such failures.

The film within its narrow canvas only explores dyslexia, a learning disoder of complex neurological and psychological dysfunction which is rare and and is only beginning to be understood by the Neurologists and therefore mis understood.

But there are other such disorders of the nervous and other systems which express itself occassionally in very rare cases and sometimes disappear and reppear to effect preformance of the children in all activities. They remain undetected, the parents and society being ignorant, and treatment not being available in India, are either conviniently forgotten or a facade of ignorance about them are cultivated with an ultra- romanic expectation that ignorance is bliss.

So children afflicted by Migrains are taunted for being lathergic. Children who develop narcolepsy and dose in the class room are subjected to humiliation. Musculoskelital disorders are a subjects of comic entertainment.

It is perhaps not possible to make as many films as such little understood diseases to sensitise the people. Until then should children suffer and suffer and allow to give these sufferings a psychological interpretation so that it seems like a weakness of the mind or lack of will power?

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