If you love and respect childhood you must watch this movie “Taree Zameen Par”.
The developmental aspect of childhood… of any child is blatantly ignored by every one and this is the message I got from this movie. It’s neither about dyslexia not about discovering inadequacies of children. It’s too brutal to discover suddenly that its not just orphans and urchins that lead traumatic lives. It’s also the children who are well taken care of in the protective embryo of money and security.
The long established stereo typed mindset of everyone to excel in what’s popular, rather than what they could really excel is a subliminal threat that’s imposed by parents and suffered by children. This movie rips off the layers of deluding experiences, justifications and indisputable truths every parent might come up with and make them see the naked need of children to follow their heart.
I have been observing the tide of preferences over a period of time in my beloved country India. There was a time people used to pay ridiculously astronomical sums to get their children enrolled in to MBBS. Then the place was occupied by Engineering graduation and especially civil engineering. Then preference for MBA raced and superseded everything. Biotechnology tried an unsuccessful intrusion. Now the current trend is software.
Its hilarious to see this explosion of expertise for an unspecific time period. Me as a diploma holder in mechanical engineer was terrified looking at swarms of engineers vomited from private aided engineering colleges and ran past even to grab my low level job… just because jobs at their own level have been saturated.
And final nail on the coffin now arrived. Now its not just university level. Its school and even preschool level. The child must compete with every goddamn thing the education systems conceives in its pipe dreams. They don’t even bother to know the aptitude of child and parents are even worse. They just look around with an obscure and mob kind of mentality as to what area is worthy of pursuing and push their child in to that mad rush.
I have this friend who is so interested in architecture. She used to get fascinated with designing and decorating homes where people unwind, relax, energize and inspire. She used to think of every possible means make her dream come true. I could not help but admire her inclination towards her dream and her parents thought otherwise. They not only tried lobbying computer science but also enforced that upon her. As a last moment effort she tried writing the aptitude test for Architecture that’s conducted state wide. She failed neither my hopes not her dreams. She secured a commendable place that definitely would have fetched a seat in Architectural graduation.
Her achievement was very promptly ignored and she was coerced in to joining something she hated. The resultant effect she is undergoing is…she hates everything about software and computers. But she did not tried to be self-destructive in a deliberate retaliation. She is performing well in her given task because she wishes not to make her parents assume that they lost their investment.
And she confesses her unbroken dreams as I listen to her in mute silence. She tries finding her ventilation in lesser creative forms like painting and crafts. It’s so anguishing to watch her fight for those simple pleasures in life as again her folk thinks that she is wasting her time.
I am unmarried and hence childless. I am not sure what would I have done if I were blessed with a child in this case. I looked upon those other audience when we stood as the lights glowed at the end of the movie. They applauded and perhaps would discuss the movie with their peers. But how many of them would unlearn what they devised for their children in unilateral way???
I actually feel that most of the children are already brainwashed in to insensitive slobs that they recognize not what they are good at. They were given orchestrated rhetoric from parents about money fame power and the ways to reach it the way they see it. They were not allowed to look towards something that’s lurking beneath their young heart in curiosity.
Who knows about computers or medicine or management when they are kids??? What every kid tries to do is paint what they feel like and build what they deem appropriate. Even poking through a mud pit with a stick is a journey towards discovering something in which they could find their own interest.
That word used by the teacher in that movie driven deep in to my heart.
He is true. Child labor is not just about those who work in hotels, shops and construction areas. Its there in families that are totally secure in terms of money and influence. Those who perform not well are humiliated and those who perform well are pushed further.
I hope… at least one percent of parents who watch this movie would try look life of a child… in the eyes of their own child… make his or her smile as she unfolds her dream in to reality.
The developmental aspect of childhood… of any child is blatantly ignored by every one and this is the message I got from this movie. It’s neither about dyslexia not about discovering inadequacies of children. It’s too brutal to discover suddenly that its not just orphans and urchins that lead traumatic lives. It’s also the children who are well taken care of in the protective embryo of money and security.
The long established stereo typed mindset of everyone to excel in what’s popular, rather than what they could really excel is a subliminal threat that’s imposed by parents and suffered by children. This movie rips off the layers of deluding experiences, justifications and indisputable truths every parent might come up with and make them see the naked need of children to follow their heart.
I have been observing the tide of preferences over a period of time in my beloved country India. There was a time people used to pay ridiculously astronomical sums to get their children enrolled in to MBBS. Then the place was occupied by Engineering graduation and especially civil engineering. Then preference for MBA raced and superseded everything. Biotechnology tried an unsuccessful intrusion. Now the current trend is software.
Its hilarious to see this explosion of expertise for an unspecific time period. Me as a diploma holder in mechanical engineer was terrified looking at swarms of engineers vomited from private aided engineering colleges and ran past even to grab my low level job… just because jobs at their own level have been saturated.
And final nail on the coffin now arrived. Now its not just university level. Its school and even preschool level. The child must compete with every goddamn thing the education systems conceives in its pipe dreams. They don’t even bother to know the aptitude of child and parents are even worse. They just look around with an obscure and mob kind of mentality as to what area is worthy of pursuing and push their child in to that mad rush.
I have this friend who is so interested in architecture. She used to get fascinated with designing and decorating homes where people unwind, relax, energize and inspire. She used to think of every possible means make her dream come true. I could not help but admire her inclination towards her dream and her parents thought otherwise. They not only tried lobbying computer science but also enforced that upon her. As a last moment effort she tried writing the aptitude test for Architecture that’s conducted state wide. She failed neither my hopes not her dreams. She secured a commendable place that definitely would have fetched a seat in Architectural graduation.
Her achievement was very promptly ignored and she was coerced in to joining something she hated. The resultant effect she is undergoing is…she hates everything about software and computers. But she did not tried to be self-destructive in a deliberate retaliation. She is performing well in her given task because she wishes not to make her parents assume that they lost their investment.
And she confesses her unbroken dreams as I listen to her in mute silence. She tries finding her ventilation in lesser creative forms like painting and crafts. It’s so anguishing to watch her fight for those simple pleasures in life as again her folk thinks that she is wasting her time.
I am unmarried and hence childless. I am not sure what would I have done if I were blessed with a child in this case. I looked upon those other audience when we stood as the lights glowed at the end of the movie. They applauded and perhaps would discuss the movie with their peers. But how many of them would unlearn what they devised for their children in unilateral way???
I actually feel that most of the children are already brainwashed in to insensitive slobs that they recognize not what they are good at. They were given orchestrated rhetoric from parents about money fame power and the ways to reach it the way they see it. They were not allowed to look towards something that’s lurking beneath their young heart in curiosity.
Who knows about computers or medicine or management when they are kids??? What every kid tries to do is paint what they feel like and build what they deem appropriate. Even poking through a mud pit with a stick is a journey towards discovering something in which they could find their own interest.
That word used by the teacher in that movie driven deep in to my heart.
He is true. Child labor is not just about those who work in hotels, shops and construction areas. Its there in families that are totally secure in terms of money and influence. Those who perform not well are humiliated and those who perform well are pushed further.
I hope… at least one percent of parents who watch this movie would try look life of a child… in the eyes of their own child… make his or her smile as she unfolds her dream in to reality.
2 comments:
the sentiments of parents can hardly b chngd by movies like this...u cannot expect them to see through da pains of a fictitous charecter wen they fail 2 e1 look in2 da reasons o their childs tears...its just an "awesome" movie 4 thm...
hey che,this societal tag has driven me and several others crazy thinking why me ! why can't i do what i want to do ! its sad ,but its true..we r pushed into it and have to go thru it ..........dreams shattered
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