Taare Zameen Par (2007) BluRay

Daddy Izz 11/15/2021

An eight-year-old boy is thought to be a lazy trouble-maker, until the new art teacher has the patience and compassion to discover the real problem behind his struggles in school.

SINOPSIS TAARE ZAMEEN PAR

Ishaan Nandkishore Awasthi is an 8-year-old boy with dyslexia and thus has trouble following school, though he is assumed by all to hate learning, and is belittled for it. His imagination, creativity, and talent for art and painting are often disregarded. His father, Nandkishore Awasthi, is a successful executive who expects his children to excel, and his mother, Maya Awasthi, is a housewife frustrated by her inability to educate Ishaan. Ishaan's elder brother, Yohan Awasthi, is an exemplary student and athlete in whose shadow Ishaan remains.

Fed up with his failure, Ishaan's father sends him to a boarding school. Alone there, he rapidly sinks into a state of fear, anxiety, and depression. His only friend is Rajan Damodharan, a physically disabled boy who is one of the top students. The school teachers are even more abusive than his old school's. Ishaan contemplates suicide but Rajan saves him.

Ishaan's condition improves when a new art teacher, Ram Shankar Nikumbh, a cheerful and optimistic instructor at the Tulips School for young children with developmental disabilities, joins the boarding school. Nikumbh's teaching style is markedly different from that of his strict and abusive predecessor, and he quickly notes Ishaan's unhappiness. He reviews Ishaan's work and concludes that his academic shortcomings are indicative of dyslexia.

Nikumbh then flies to Mumbai to visit Ishaan's parents, where he is surprised to discover Ishaan's hidden interest in art. He demonstrates to Ishaan's parents how Ishaan has extreme difficulty in understanding letters and words due to dyslexia. Nandkishore labels it as mental retardation and dismisses it as laziness. Frustrated by Nandkishore's negligent attitude, Nikumbh leaves. Nandkishore then realizes his mistake and feels guilty for his mistreatment of Ishaan.

Back at school, Nikumbh brings up the topic of dyslexia in a class by offering a list of famous people who were dyslexic. He comforts Ishaan, telling him how he struggled as a child as well. Nikumbh obtains the principal's permission to become Ishaan's tutor. With gradual care, he attempts to improve Ishaan's reading and writing by using remedial techniques developed by dyslexia specialists. Eventually, both Ishaan's demeanor and his grades improve.

At the end of the school year, Nikumbh organises an arts and crafts contest for the staff and students, judged by artist Lalita Lajmi. Ishaan's work makes him the winner and Nikumbh, who paints Ishaan's portrait, is declared the runner-up. The principal announces that Nikumbh has been hired as the school's permanent art teacher.

When Ishaan's parents meet his teachers on the last day of school, they are left speechless by the transformation in him. Overcome with emotion, Nandkishore thanks Nikumbh. Before leaving, Ishaan runs toward Nikumbh, who lifts him high up in a hug.